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Kriek
Helltown Brewing
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- From:
- Helltown Brewing
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Fruit Lambic
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 12.44%
- Reviews:
- 10
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 01, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 03, 2014
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Ratings by PSU_Mike:
Reviewed by PSU_Mike from Pennsylvania
4.3/5 rDev +7%
4.3/5 rDev +7%
Tart and very acidic. Decent carb to tickle the tongue. A sipper but a nice sour.
Poured into a champagne flute. It pours a light pink with a head that dissipates very quickly. Active carbonation runs right up from the base of the flute consistently. The smell is very acidic and fruity with cherries being the predominant smell. The flavor is very tart with the cherries coming through but not overshadowing the wild yeast. The finish is very dry like a champagne with active carb on the tongue. Overall, this is a really enjoyable sour. The tartness is assertive but not overpowering while you still get the cherry flavor. I enjoyed this side by side with a bottle of Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien and I preferred Helltown's beer.
Sep 13, 2014Poured into a champagne flute. It pours a light pink with a head that dissipates very quickly. Active carbonation runs right up from the base of the flute consistently. The smell is very acidic and fruity with cherries being the predominant smell. The flavor is very tart with the cherries coming through but not overshadowing the wild yeast. The finish is very dry like a champagne with active carb on the tongue. Overall, this is a really enjoyable sour. The tartness is assertive but not overpowering while you still get the cherry flavor. I enjoyed this side by side with a bottle of Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien and I preferred Helltown's beer.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by beerfurious from Pennsylvania
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Popped one last week that was bottled in July 2014. Aging did wonders for this beer. The nose, funk and the tart finish is exceptional. If they produce this again, I will buy and let sit for a long time before opening.
Mar 01, 2017Reviewed by Dco from Pennsylvania
4.59/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.59/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
I purchased several of these on release day. At that time they were good, a tad thin, and a bit under developed. I sat on them for a year, and wow. These have developed into a delicious, tart funky beer. They developed so well that I bough two cases. The cherries and barrel are now coming through quite well. Do yourself a favor and try this again if you've only tried at in the first 8-12 months.
Nov 13, 2015Reviewed by Stinkypuss from Pennsylvania
3.61/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours a light pinkish color with a slight haze. The fizzy head does fade quick. The aroma is pretty funky, sour fruit and rotting garbage in an acceptable way. Sour upfront on the taste with some cherries and raw grain on the back end. Perhaps a bit gaseous, there is a slight sulfur thing going on. Still sour, oaky and pretty enjoyable. Reminds me more of a fruited barrel aged Berliner Weisse than true Belgian Kriek, but in these parts we take what we can get. Interesting to try, I liked it.
Feb 19, 2015Reviewed by cpetrone84 from Pennsylvania
2.88/5 rDev -28.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.88/5 rDev -28.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pour is pink grapefruit in color, clear, with a fizzy white head that dissipates immediately. Nose is light plastic/acetic with some cherry and sawdusty barrel. Sour, stings the back sides of the mouth, Lots of cherry, slightly thin, some notes of acetic and rubbery phenol. Assertive carb, light body.
Jan 04, 2015Reviewed by nmann08 from Virginia
3.67/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From a bottle, pours a very attractive pink grapefruit color, not a ton of carbonation, just a small light red head.
The nose is tart cherries, a little funk, and definitely some wood pulp from the oak treatment. The taste is equally as tart as the nose, lots of vinegar, cherries, brett, and wet wood. It has alot of acid, almost puckering.
Overall, this is good, but not exceptional.
Nov 14, 2014The nose is tart cherries, a little funk, and definitely some wood pulp from the oak treatment. The taste is equally as tart as the nose, lots of vinegar, cherries, brett, and wet wood. It has alot of acid, almost puckering.
Overall, this is good, but not exceptional.
Kriek from Helltown Brewing
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
44 ratings
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