Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

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

11.2 oz bottle (best before 6/11/05). Ruby red color with medium head. The aroma is cherry, burnt cherry maybe. The flavor is also of burnt cherries. It is somewhat tart, woody, not too sweet, and a bit minerally. The flavor is similar to Quelque Chose. It’s not our favorite Verhaeghe beer but the brewery is still tops on our list.

Clear ruby red with a thin head and some lacing. Burnt cherry and funk in the nose. Canned cherry pie flavor. Not very good kriek.

Ruby with fast fading pink head. Cherry nose. Cherry flavor borders on vinergar. Not one of the better ones of this style

Dark red with white laced head. Taste is cherry and vinegar. Malty..an odd out of place flavor i couldnt put finger on. Not really good..and i love this style.

clear dark reddish colour, almost no foam, red fruits and vinegar aroma, notes of straw, acidic and sweet, medium-bodied, the finish is dry and sour - good but not in the same category that the Duchesse

I would have sworn I had rated this. Then I found a bottle floating around in the back of the beer fridge. Still thought I had rated it, but was in the mood for a desert type of beer, so opened it anyway. Decided part of the way through to check my previous rating to see if my impressions were the same. Then discovered that I had never rated this. I’m getting daft. In any case, clear red with a brown tinge, ring of head. Aroma largely of cherries with a hint of wood. Bite of carbonation on the palate. Woody flavor gives way to some sour cherries and the faintest hint of funk. Light bodied and fizzy. Interesting, but just not my thing.

Very clear deep ruby body topped off with a pink head. The aroma is sour, wood and cherries. The flavor has a large oak aspect. The cherry is there, but something in this one is very medicinal. It’s not bad and actually fairly refreshing, but that medicinal quality to the aroma and flavor is annoying. A sweet beer, but sweet like juice (especially with the fairly light body) instead of rich or cloying sweet.

25 cl bottle, bbe 15/05/08. Ruby red colour, very clear and transparent. Head disappears within seconds. Cherry aroma, sweetish, cherry liqueur. The taste is more ’oud bruin’, with a lot of lactic acidity and some wood. Yet there is some round, fruity sweetness, too. A hint of cherry candy in the aftertaste. Dry, metallic finish with carbonation teasing the tongue and alcohol gently heating the palate.