Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

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

A tart cranberry nose mellows in the mouth to sweet cherries and green foliage. It’s very smooth and easy. I found it a little sweet overall. It lacked any real depth. All bark, no bite. All cock, no balls. What is a party if it doesn’t really rock?

Pours reddish brown with tan head. Sour cherry aroma. Flavor is initially sour followed by tart cherries and some woody notes. Medium body with lively carbonation.

Dirty brown pour. Nose of vinegar and cherries. Flavor is sweet cherries with a syrupy flavor. Sour and acid finish.

Bottle from Once Upon a Vine, Richmond. Dullish brown pour with minimal crisp carbonation. Faint oak in the nose and dark cherry tartness, nothing too sharp. Oxidized and off-putting dry, vegetal finish. Some mild cherry and brune-ish flavors remain, but it’s gone medicinal.

12oz bottle dated best before 14-08-09. Clear pink-red color with light pink bubbles. Smells like a little vinegar and cherries. Sweet-sour cherry taste, syrupy, sticky, interesting beer. The stickiness is a little much for my liking but the flavor is better than average. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 02-22-2009 04:30:29

Bottle. Pours karmijn red with a pink-white head. Very medicinal nose, cherries and cough syrup. Flavor ends sour acidic and is unbalanced.

Bottle. Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Red colour. Light cherry aroma. Not very sour. Light btter flavor. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate.

bottle poured amber/red with a thin white head. Aroma is sour with a hint of wine. Very fizzy on tongue. Sour and and tart cherry in flavor.