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Oude Kriek Limited Edition
Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.
- From:
- Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit Lambic
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 11.65%
- Reviews:
- 36
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 30, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 07, 2010
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 18
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Rated by blisscent from Rhode Island
4.66/5 rDev +18%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.66/5 rDev +18%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dated 02/27/14--Sampled on 05/29/21
May 30, 2021Reviewed by RobertColianni from Pennsylvania
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
6yo bottle (2014): tart cherry, mild chocolate, medium acidity, low head retention, light horse blanket, umami (mushroom), earth, prune, candy sugar, light chewiness, taffy.
Jul 13, 2020Reviewed by patre_tim from Thailand
3.92/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Cherry red with a hint of brown, moderate carbonation and 4 fingers of pinkish head.
Smells of dusty cellar, macaroni, and a hint of berry.
Tastes of dusty cellar, extreme sour with a hint of red juice.
Bone dry and puckeringly tart with moderate carbonation.
I got this in Redding where I am drinking it, Dec 12th, 20.
Dec 13, 2019Smells of dusty cellar, macaroni, and a hint of berry.
Tastes of dusty cellar, extreme sour with a hint of red juice.
Bone dry and puckeringly tart with moderate carbonation.
I got this in Redding where I am drinking it, Dec 12th, 20.
Reviewed by redleg64 from Michigan
2.77/5 rDev -29.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.77/5 rDev -29.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
I saw a bottle of this at the local bottle shop for $2.50. I thought "Hey, what a bargain!" and picked it up. My bottle was corked in 2014. The price should have told me that either this lambic was bad or just really unpopular here in Oklahoma. Oh well...
The ruby red color is beautiful, but the next thing I noticed was the smell. My nose isn't that good, but this thing smelled sour and tart. Can you smell tastes? I took one sip and my face puckered right up and I forced myself to swallow. Wow! So incredibly sour and tart yet definitely very cherry, a lot more than I expected. If this is your thing then more power to you, but for me this thing is going down the drain.
Aug 23, 2019The ruby red color is beautiful, but the next thing I noticed was the smell. My nose isn't that good, but this thing smelled sour and tart. Can you smell tastes? I took one sip and my face puckered right up and I forced myself to swallow. Wow! So incredibly sour and tart yet definitely very cherry, a lot more than I expected. If this is your thing then more power to you, but for me this thing is going down the drain.
Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Bottled in 2015. Enjoyed in early 2019.
Pours a ruddy dark cherry color with thin foaming, despite the generous effervescence. Slightly tart aroma with intense sour taste. Not much fruit flavor left, mostly tartness.
Jun 21, 2019Pours a ruddy dark cherry color with thin foaming, despite the generous effervescence. Slightly tart aroma with intense sour taste. Not much fruit flavor left, mostly tartness.
Rated by JPNesker from Canada (ON)
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Pretty much perfect.
Dec 26, 2017Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.24/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Pours a deep purple color with a mauve, two-finger head; a few shards of lace appear as the head recedes
Smell: Funk and tart cherry tones, with an oaky character permeating
Taste: Acetic tartness dominates here, with tart cherry and blackberry tones leading off; the funk really builds, through the middle, but the sourness will take the enamel off your teeth, after the swallow; oaky tones join in for the the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation; very puckery
Overall: A great beer for lovers of things very sour; surprised it is not rated higher
Nov 26, 2017Smell: Funk and tart cherry tones, with an oaky character permeating
Taste: Acetic tartness dominates here, with tart cherry and blackberry tones leading off; the funk really builds, through the middle, but the sourness will take the enamel off your teeth, after the swallow; oaky tones join in for the the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation; very puckery
Overall: A great beer for lovers of things very sour; surprised it is not rated higher
Reviewed by ccrida from Oregon
4.03/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
4.03/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Enjoying this on the train from Brussles to Amsterdam, in a Hercule Stout mug. This was brewed in 2010 and bottled in 2013. Appearance is an opaque magenta with a small off-white head.
Smell is cherries and butter.
Taste is super sour, loads if lemony lacto, widely diverged from the nose. The cherries are pretty much all far gone at this point. Extreme pucker, which makes it difficult to pick up any nuance. As it warms, cherry pie peaks out.
Mouthfeel is oily and tannic, medium light bodied. And so much tongue curl!
Drinakability is challenging even for the biggest of sour lovers. This thing is super acidic. After a weekend in Brussels gorging on sours, this one has put me over the top and is a fitting finale.
Oct 01, 2017Smell is cherries and butter.
Taste is super sour, loads if lemony lacto, widely diverged from the nose. The cherries are pretty much all far gone at this point. Extreme pucker, which makes it difficult to pick up any nuance. As it warms, cherry pie peaks out.
Mouthfeel is oily and tannic, medium light bodied. And so much tongue curl!
Drinakability is challenging even for the biggest of sour lovers. This thing is super acidic. After a weekend in Brussels gorging on sours, this one has put me over the top and is a fitting finale.
Rated by Cermjo from Pennsylvania
1.86/5 rDev -52.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
1.86/5 rDev -52.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Too sour, taste like vinegar with a hint of cherry. I don't know why or how people drink this stuff.
Jul 22, 2017Reviewed by teddibrewski from England
3.92/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
I was really impressed with timmermans Oude Gauze so i though I give this one a try, Smells very strongly of cherry, taste cherry up front, puckering sourness, and a funky aftertaste that I can't really explain but I'm not crazy about. Overall pretty good tho
Jun 20, 2017Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
375ml caged and corked bottle - this shows more promise than the overly fruity variants from this brewery that preceded it in our market a short while ago.
This beer pours a dark, sort of muddled purple colour, with one finger of puffy, creamy, and somewhat bubbly pink head, which leaves nothing in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of musty wooden barrel staves, mixed cherry, raspberry, and plum dry fruity notes, some estery yeastiness, a mild earthy funk, and some tame leafy, weedy, and herbal noble hop bitters. The taste is sharply tart and underripe cherry stems, equally acerbic mixed black berry essences, a somehow innocuous funkiness, separate phenolic yeast, well-understated grainy pale malt, stale oak, and a still very meek earthy, leafy, and musty verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its somewhat off-setting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not with all that acid flitting about, essentially unchecked. It finishes rather dry, tart, and acerbic, all in a fruity sort of manner.
Overall, this is one tart 'n sour offering, the cherry and friends character not providing a stitch of sweetness to the mix here whatsoever. Not exactly easy to drink, but still a decent example of the style, for those of you weirdos out there who continue to think that this is a good idea for beer in general.
May 20, 2017This beer pours a dark, sort of muddled purple colour, with one finger of puffy, creamy, and somewhat bubbly pink head, which leaves nothing in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of musty wooden barrel staves, mixed cherry, raspberry, and plum dry fruity notes, some estery yeastiness, a mild earthy funk, and some tame leafy, weedy, and herbal noble hop bitters. The taste is sharply tart and underripe cherry stems, equally acerbic mixed black berry essences, a somehow innocuous funkiness, separate phenolic yeast, well-understated grainy pale malt, stale oak, and a still very meek earthy, leafy, and musty verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its somewhat off-setting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not with all that acid flitting about, essentially unchecked. It finishes rather dry, tart, and acerbic, all in a fruity sort of manner.
Overall, this is one tart 'n sour offering, the cherry and friends character not providing a stitch of sweetness to the mix here whatsoever. Not exactly easy to drink, but still a decent example of the style, for those of you weirdos out there who continue to think that this is a good idea for beer in general.
Oude Kriek Limited Edition from Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
144 ratings
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