Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

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

25 cL bottle, thanks to BelJohansen. Pours clear and golden red with a lacing pink head. Extremely dry and sulphorish cherry aroma. Dry to acidic sulphor/wooden flavour. Solid citric bite following. Woody flavour seems more dominant than the cherry fruit notes. Ends in a citric to dry sulphor wood finish.

Bottle, bought @ Havnens Vin & Tobak, Vejle.
Pours deep dark red with a small rim of light pink foam. Aroma has cherries, good earthy tartness, oak and barnyard. Rather high carbonation. Flavour has quite little cherries, only a faint not. Flavour is lightly fruity tart with citric notes. Good oakiness and dry finish. Okay.

Nice light red colour. Quite sour taste. Average carbonation. Not very cherryish taste. Quite transparent. No nose of cherries.

Bottle purchased yesterday at Nikki’s Liquor in Providence. Date is best before 10/18/08. Pours a really nice dark red with a tan half finger nose. Taste is very tart with a nice cherry feeling, the kriek aspect of this is interesting and all over the place and overall its a tasty sour. Not the best and not the worst.

Pours a very murky reddish brown with a medium sudsy beige/pink head. Strong woody tart sour cherry aroma. Sweet and tart. Extreme sour cherries with some wood and very little vinegar. Pretty straight forward for what it is. Medium body with very crisp soda like carbonation. Quafable. Whats with the low ratings?

tap at City Beer, SF. pours with a reddish color and a pinkish head. Aroams of cherries and some lemon. Flavorsr are not as sour as for example a Mort Subite. there is more fruit and less sourness, quite nice on the palate, I would say it is more accessible than some of the other lambics.

Bottle. Pours orange red with lots of bubbles and a bubbly cream-colored head. The aroma is mildly sour with cherry, wood, and a sort of tangy earthiness. Flavor is tart acidity and light cherries. The woody oaken notes compete with the cherry, but both are kept at bay by the strong seltzer sharpness. There are some musty cellar notes and some distant earthy hints, too. It finishes dry and fruity. Vibrant carbonation makes it somewhat champagne-like. Not bad.

Bottle, thanks to yngwie! Pinkish short-lived head. Clear deep red to light ruby colored body with noisy carbonation. Fresh and sour, light vinegar-ish cherries in the aroma. Notes of wood anf cellar. Taste is less sour; cherries with an acidic twist and some barnyard notes. Crisp and lively mouthfeel. Dry fruity mineralic finish. A likeable quencher.