Kriek

Brouwerij Lindemans in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Kriek Regular

Score

6.20

ABV: 3.5%

IBU: -

Ticks: 96

In order to obtain a beer like no other, we have been adding whole sour cherries to our lambic for generations.

Our meeting with American importer Charles Finkel in the 1970s revolutionised the fruit beer segment. Charles convinced us to export our old kriek to the United States by boat. What we had not thought of is that the movement of the waves would reactivate the fermentation process and cause the corks to pop during the trip. It was like something out of The Adventures of Tintin. To prevent that from happening, we therefore developed an alternative production method for our kriek. We use fresh, not from concentrate, unsweetened cherry filtrate which we blend with lambic that is at least one year old before fermenting & macerating for up to 3 days and pasteurising the whole batch. So the corks don't pop.

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Thom Zalm (2448) ticked Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 2 years ago

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Tried on 29 Oct 2021 at 21:50

Samvrehen (736) ticked Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 2 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2021 at 15:28

Bart23 (997) ticked Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 3 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2021 at 18:37

bier4der (3525) ticked Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 4 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2020 at 21:56

EvNa (2386) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 4 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Bottle. Color: Clear red, pink head. Aroma: Cherry syrup. Taste: Sweet cherries, cherry syrup. Mwdium sweet. No tartness at all. Nothing at all, compared with a real Oude Kriek. Bleh.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2020 at 15:18

6.5

Klimaet (3586) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours deep ruby red with a big pink head. Aromas of sweet cherries, acetic, light funk, sugary. Taste is sugary sweet, sweet cherries, light acetic notes, light malt, funk. Never getting to love these sweet sugary things.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55

Martin Lindström (28176) ticked Kriek (1991) from Brouwerij Lindemans 4 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2019 at 23:04

Bierkoning (17781) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 4 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Red color, pink head. Strong sweetened cherry juice aroma. You can smell it metres from the glass. Lots of cherry juice in the very sweet flavor. Some lemon sourness to compensate. It's impossible to taste the lambic that is used. Still, the beer tastes OK, like cherry lemonade can taste well on a hot day.

Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07

5.9

rhoihessegold (9950) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 5 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

15-12-18 // old bottle from a shop in Belgium. BBD December 2015. brausebonbonkirschsüße. Klares tiefrot. Leicht pinker Schaum. Sehr künstlich süß. Mild sauer. Naja.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2018 at 23:12

aswespeak (5012) ticked Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 5 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2018 at 15:32