Floris Kriek
Brouwerij Huyghe
- From:
- Brouwerij Huyghe
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
Ranked #539 - ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 75
Ranked #38,610 - Avg:
- 3.13 | pDev: 16.93%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 15
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 05, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2006
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 11
SCORE
75
Okay
75
Okay
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.78/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
3.78/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Being a fan of Huyghe's Delirium line, I always shied from their fruit beers. Why spend calories on sweet when you can enjoy one of the world's most dynamic yeasts in a strong pale?
So here I am, having just bought the Floris fruit beer sampler from a Whole Foods in Petaluma. And of course, it is a perfect August mid-afternoon for a fruit beer to improve further this Petaluma Paradise. Am I about to make an objective review?
Floris' Kriek largely does what it should. It Looks a pretty ruby in the glass and it Smells as much as cherries as it does beer. But this sweet somehow stays balanced, not cloying in the finish; which often happens to other cherry ales in lesser hands. Refreshing, though not quite medium-mouthed in a light style.
As for the very good Overall Hugs... those belong to Huyghe for their Delirium line and their updates to their brewery and their more sustainable brewing practices and for maintaining a global Belgium brand. Close enough to Walloonia, they get an A Sante' and an Merci !
Aug 05, 2025So here I am, having just bought the Floris fruit beer sampler from a Whole Foods in Petaluma. And of course, it is a perfect August mid-afternoon for a fruit beer to improve further this Petaluma Paradise. Am I about to make an objective review?
Floris' Kriek largely does what it should. It Looks a pretty ruby in the glass and it Smells as much as cherries as it does beer. But this sweet somehow stays balanced, not cloying in the finish; which often happens to other cherry ales in lesser hands. Refreshing, though not quite medium-mouthed in a light style.
As for the very good Overall Hugs... those belong to Huyghe for their Delirium line and their updates to their brewery and their more sustainable brewing practices and for maintaining a global Belgium brand. Close enough to Walloonia, they get an A Sante' and an Merci !
Rated by manccol from England
2.96/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
2.96/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Not the greatest on its own mix with Floris Chocolate to get a Black Forest Gateaux flavoured beer - which is quite amazing.
Sep 07, 2015
Rated by Kgoldsbe from Colorado
3.5/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Starts as ripe sour cherry and then ends very abruptly.
Feb 20, 2015
Reviewed by SmashPants from Australia
2.29/5 rDev -26.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.29/5 rDev -26.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Format: a light brown 330mL bottle with a pretty tacky label.
Appearance: pours out a really lovely and vibrant cherry red colour (funnily enough), not much head to speak of - just a thin cap floating on top.
Aroma: a very strong aroma of artificial cherry - smells of a really nasty saccharin medicine. Not nice.
Taste: once again plenty of saccharin cherry in medicine form. Apparently Krieks are really not my type of beer.
Aftertaste: becomes slightly bitter on the finish, but still the cherry lingers for quite some time.
Mouth feel: medium in body with a moderate amount of fine carbonation.
Overall: between this beer and Timmermans Kriek Lambicus, I think it's pretty safe to say that Kriek is not my preferred style of beer. They both taste and smell like saccharin, medicinal cherry. Nasty. Particularly for over AU$110 for a case of 24 x 330mL. No thanks.
Dec 07, 2014Appearance: pours out a really lovely and vibrant cherry red colour (funnily enough), not much head to speak of - just a thin cap floating on top.
Aroma: a very strong aroma of artificial cherry - smells of a really nasty saccharin medicine. Not nice.
Taste: once again plenty of saccharin cherry in medicine form. Apparently Krieks are really not my type of beer.
Aftertaste: becomes slightly bitter on the finish, but still the cherry lingers for quite some time.
Mouth feel: medium in body with a moderate amount of fine carbonation.
Overall: between this beer and Timmermans Kriek Lambicus, I think it's pretty safe to say that Kriek is not my preferred style of beer. They both taste and smell like saccharin, medicinal cherry. Nasty. Particularly for over AU$110 for a case of 24 x 330mL. No thanks.
Reviewed by interzen from England
3.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
3.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
330ml bottle poured into a Delirium Tremens Chalice
Look: DEEP cherry red - pinkish head which sticks around for a little while.
Smell: Cherries (duh!) with a slightly medicinal tang to it - perhaps comparisons to cough syrup are a bit wide of the mark, but there's definitely a bit of a whiff of antiseptic there.
Taste: I'll be straight - I love cherry beers but my palate tends to prefer the 'sour' end of the spectrum rather than the sickly-sweet 'artificial' cherry flavours. This sits somewhere in between, veering towards the sweet end of the scale. Which is a pity.
Feel: Bit of a lightweight, to be honest - not really helped by the sweetness, which can be a bit overbearing in large quantities.
Overall: Disappointing - give me a properly 'sour' kriek and I'm as happy as you like; this sits uncomfortably between sour and 'artificially sweet'.
Dec 05, 2014Look: DEEP cherry red - pinkish head which sticks around for a little while.
Smell: Cherries (duh!) with a slightly medicinal tang to it - perhaps comparisons to cough syrup are a bit wide of the mark, but there's definitely a bit of a whiff of antiseptic there.
Taste: I'll be straight - I love cherry beers but my palate tends to prefer the 'sour' end of the spectrum rather than the sickly-sweet 'artificial' cherry flavours. This sits somewhere in between, veering towards the sweet end of the scale. Which is a pity.
Feel: Bit of a lightweight, to be honest - not really helped by the sweetness, which can be a bit overbearing in large quantities.
Overall: Disappointing - give me a properly 'sour' kriek and I'm as happy as you like; this sits uncomfortably between sour and 'artificially sweet'.
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