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St. Louis Premium Kriek
Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
- From:
- Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit Lambic
Ranked #142 - ABV:
- 3.2%
- Score:
- 78
Ranked #26,790 - Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 17.94%
- Reviews:
- 42
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 14, 2003
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 18
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Rated by Catalinmunteanu from Romania
4.18/5 rDev +22.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
4.18/5 rDev +22.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
Cherry
Nov 05, 2019Reviewed by yungBeerBrat from Georgia
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Yummy, sweet and delicious i bought a 750 and the second i opened it i called the store and asked them to hold the second for me. The bottle i have was bottled in 2013 and im drinking it in 2018.
Appearance : Nothing special, crystal clear, but so dark it almost doesn't matter. if you pour rapidly you get some foam that doesn't last long, foam is a clean white.
Smell : Amazing, from a foot or two away you could easily smell this. Sweet cherries very fruity. After tasting and smelling again i notice a plum skin aroma, but probably placebo.
Taste : Lots of cherry and plum skin flavor. Possibly lightly tart and lightly sour but a majority of the flavor is sweet cherry and bitter plum skin. Smooth easy to drink, but I wouldn't call it light due to how sweet it is.
Highly recommended if you like sweet things.
Edit : changed my actual ratings to better reflect the review of it as a beer. As a hard soda this is beyond amazing, as a cider too, but as for tasting like lambic beer its less accurate and should be judged a little different.
Jul 21, 2018Appearance : Nothing special, crystal clear, but so dark it almost doesn't matter. if you pour rapidly you get some foam that doesn't last long, foam is a clean white.
Smell : Amazing, from a foot or two away you could easily smell this. Sweet cherries very fruity. After tasting and smelling again i notice a plum skin aroma, but probably placebo.
Taste : Lots of cherry and plum skin flavor. Possibly lightly tart and lightly sour but a majority of the flavor is sweet cherry and bitter plum skin. Smooth easy to drink, but I wouldn't call it light due to how sweet it is.
Highly recommended if you like sweet things.
Edit : changed my actual ratings to better reflect the review of it as a beer. As a hard soda this is beyond amazing, as a cider too, but as for tasting like lambic beer its less accurate and should be judged a little different.
Rated by Mclusal from Colombia
3.34/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
M92
Jun 17, 2018Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
375 ml bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy ruby reddish orange/amber color with a 1 finger dense light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big juicy and lightly tart/tangy red/black cherries, strawberry, plum, red apple, red grape, fruit skin/pits, almond, candi sugar, wheat, bread, light funk, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of cherries, fruity yeast, and malt/sugar sweetness; with great strength. Taste of big juicy and lightly tart/tangy red/black cherries, strawberry, plum, red apple, red grape, fruit skin/pits, almond, candi sugar, wheat, bread, light funk, and yeast earthiness. Light fruity/lactic tartness and fruit tang on the finish. Lingering notes of juicy/tart/tangy red/black cherries, strawberry, plum, red apple, red grape, fruit skin/pits, almond, candi sugar, wheat, bread, light funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of cherries, fruity yeast, and malt/sugar sweetness; with a nice malt/tart/tangy balance, and no cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from fruit tang/tartness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy, and lightly slick/syrupy/tangy/tannic mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3.2%. Overall this was an excellent sweetened fruit lambic. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of cherries, fruity yeast, and malt/sugar sweetness; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly tart/tangy finish. Tastes like a cherry cobbler dessert as a beer. Lots of authentic jammy cherry fruit presence with balanced sweetness. Not as funky on the yeast as some others I've had, but it was really enjoyable all around.
Oct 14, 2017Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.43/5 rDev +30.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +30.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured into a pokal.
The appearance was a nice looking bright purple to amber glossy look to it. Some light carbonation could be seen rising at a good pace to fill a foamy finger's worth of white head. Adequate foamy lace ran here and there.
The aroma had mainly a sweet cherry character up front with an ever so slight grassiness at the end. As much as I liked this for me, I have to admit, there wasn't much else.
The flavor was definitely sweet all of the way through with a fair aftertaste of the cherry.
The mouthfeel was just a hair under medium bodied with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt pretty good, somewhat low. ABV felt pretty spot on. Slight acceptable stickiness just before the finish.
Overall, very well done "kriek" lambic well worthy of having again.
Oct 06, 2017The appearance was a nice looking bright purple to amber glossy look to it. Some light carbonation could be seen rising at a good pace to fill a foamy finger's worth of white head. Adequate foamy lace ran here and there.
The aroma had mainly a sweet cherry character up front with an ever so slight grassiness at the end. As much as I liked this for me, I have to admit, there wasn't much else.
The flavor was definitely sweet all of the way through with a fair aftertaste of the cherry.
The mouthfeel was just a hair under medium bodied with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt pretty good, somewhat low. ABV felt pretty spot on. Slight acceptable stickiness just before the finish.
Overall, very well done "kriek" lambic well worthy of having again.
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.57/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
From the ancient bottle (possibly from 2011), it pours a nice cherry red with virtually no head, just a few bubbles coming up. The smell is cherry The taste is cherry soda. Nice, but I get very little sour. My wife, however, enjoys it!
Aug 04, 2017Rated by yaron73 from Israel
3.61/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A bottle from a beer store in Eilat.
Mar 23, 2017
St. Louis Premium Kriek from Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
Beer rating:
78 out of
100 with
103 ratings
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