Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

Brewed by Verhaeghe
Style: Sour Ale
Vichte, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a light brown ruby color with a quickly diminishing pink head. Aroma is vinegar cherries and wood. Flavor is sweet then quickly sour cherries with a dry wood finish. Very bittersweet the whole way through with some butter in the flavor.

Rusty coloured, fair and lasting head. Nose of krieken, some oak and balsamic vinegar. Initially sweet flavour, which develops to be more sour in the end. Fairly complex and not overly sweet. Lasting bittersweet finish. Pretty good!

bottle. aroma is a generous amount of cherries. Pour is brown/ruby. Flavors include sugar, cherry - very low vinegar taste. Has some characteristics of cider and juice. Does not taste syrupy.

Bottle courtesy of tysoanderso. Pours a dark rose colour with good clarity and off white head. Nose is intensely fruity with cherries blasting through. Taste- sweet initially with a woody earthy finish. Sour but not in your face. Smells more sour than actually is. FInishes clean with crisp carbonation. Quite drinkable.

Nice sour ale. Might be my first, not sure though. IT was a nice pour with a dark red body. Love that red coloring. There was little head and no sediment. The aroma was a bit too fruity for me. The flavor was very juicy, easy to drink with nice carbonation. the body was nice, not to syrupy. good sour ale indeed.

Bottle. Pours clear and ruddy light brown with a persistent off-white head. Aroma of wood, vinegar, funk, cherry. Body tending to light, along with the carbonation. Sweet and sour cherry taste that finishes a bit woody. Nice and refreshing.

Bottle. Pours dark red body, no head. Aroma is tart, slight vinegar. Taste is great - flavor is tart and cherry.

Well I would love to rate this one based on a good bottle, but I cannot...the one I had was pure vinegar. So I will give this an average rating...right down the middle.