Kriek 100% Lambic
Brasserie Cantillon

Pours a hazy strawberry red body capped with pocked pink collar of foam. The sourness wafts to my nose as I type this and the funk which I detect from two feet away is already making my mouth water. I share the tulip with WifeAce who promptly announces that this is the worst smelling beer I've ever offered her. With an ear-to-ear grin I say. "I know...isn't it great!"

Entry is maddeningly sour, yet spritely. Aggressive tiny-bubbled CO² tortures the walls of my cheeks while the equivelent of 247 cherry sour patch kids is dropped in concentrated form right in the middle of my tongue. If you ever wish to map out the sour receptors in your mouth, this is the way to do it!

Funky with some barnyard aroma, tangy cherries, and a dusty finish make every drop of this gem pure pleasure. Authenticity is never in doubt and this is a must-have for any lover of sour beers.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2013) - drank in 2023
Look - red auburn with fantastic rimming
Smell and taste - slight tart cherry
Feel - dry and crisp
Overall - a little to dry but you still get the tart cherry

 

Got one from Ma Che in Rome. Overall a beautiful representation of the style! Very fruity, and puckery at first, but then the malt back started to appear and balance the sourness.

Bottle from Etre
Bright brick red color with a light opaqueness and a good sized white head with a hint of pink in it. Solid earthy funk and lemony lactic tartness with huge cherry aroma flavor and tartness to round it out. This beer is beautiful I wish it were more available.

 

 

750ml bottle poured into tulip. It's about goddamn time I found something from this brewery. Date on bottle says May of '22.

Pours lingerie red with half a finger of pink head that quickly sinks away without leaving lace.

Smells incredible. The second I pull the cork, the room fills with the smells of cold cherry pie, lemon juice, muddled stone fruit, rustic barnyard hay aromas, oaken barrel staves, wild blueberries, dried vanilla and cookie dough.

Tastes of intense lemon, black cherries, sliced peach and apricot, more vanilla oak notes, mixed berries, faint chocolate and more musty barnyard notes.

Feels soft and mild. Medium bodied with gentle carbonation. Finishes sour.

Verdict: Vigorously recommended. The work of masters.

 

 

I will not do justice to this beer.

Dark red pouring with a white head. Retention is ok, with some lacing.
Aroma is off the charts. There's so much going on here. Grassy, earthy, wild, funky, cherry, sweet and tart, yeasty.
Taste - I can't do justice to the flavor. Cherry is the flavor, but, so many shades of it. It is wild, funky, grassy, yeast, earthy, floral. I get a hint of balsamic vinegar. So much more I just can't put words to.
The body is tart, full, and amazing with a dryness on the back.
World class beer here. I am blown away.

 

 

 

 

5oz snifter glass at Northern Taphouse Plymouth. Described as "Traditional Belgium Lambic made with a carefully selected blend of lambic's from around one and a half year old. Brewed in chestnut barrels with fresh Kellery cherries.".
Cranberry red colored body, which looks mostly clear. As presented, the surface has a thin ring of bubbles. No lacing.
Aroma is vinous red, with slight funk and unsweetened cherry.
Taste is slightly sour, with leather funk. Cherry, citrus, melon, and red grape flavors.
Medium plus mouth feel, with a dry finish. Quiet carbonation.
Complex blend, true fruited lambic.

 

 

 

Bottled 12/10/18

It’s not every day you get to have a Cantillon, so I’m super grateful for @Eziel sending this one in a BIF box a few months back! I’m so excited to try this so let’s just get into it

Pours a cloudy deep maroon with 2 fingers of creamy pinkish white head that slowly fades to a thin cap and leaves minimal lacing

This is definitely cherry forward in the nose, but it displays a mature funk that balances it nicely. I’m picking up on aromas of tart cherry skin, wet hay, fresh leather, sharp oak, lemon juice, and light grape skin

It is similarly funky in taste, but more complex as it shifts throughout the sip. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting tart cherry, lemon juice, brown sugar, straw, red grape, and light stone. The swallow brings notes of tart cherry skin, wet hay, fresh leather, stone, cracker, red wine vinegar, and light plum

A medium body pairs with gentle tingling carbonation, resulting in a tart and funky beer. Finishes a bit sticky but is dried out by the tartness a bit

While this is probably my least favorite Cantillon so far, it is still a delicious treat that I’m lucky to try. Excited to see what I can get next from them

 

 

Cantillon kriek june 2021 a spring floral, citrus, berry nose . Wow what a tart cherry flavor, so much more fruit forward than a 2019 I had recently . The fruit certainly taking centerstage with just a hint of lambic . A devine beer .

Pours a nice dark maroon color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has generous sour Cherry and yeast hints
Taste follows the nose with a well balanced and complex tart Cherry flavor
A light bodied well carbonated beer
A great Lambic

Brasserie Cantillon 'Kriek 100% Lambic' @ 6.0% , served from a corked 375 ml bottle
A-pour is a rosy red from the bottle to glass with a small pinkish head , dissapating into a minimal lace ring along the chalice
S-mild cherries , not overpowering ,
T-oh so tart , very refreshing , smooth (it's my first Lambic)
MF-ok carbonation , medium body , very potent even at 6%
Ov-good beer , great sour , worthy of the hype
prost LampertLand

 

The smell and mouthfeel here are world class. On the pallet it has a bit more tart than I’d prefer. There’s some Brett funk but I’d like even more. Even so, it’s an amazing beer I’m so happy I could try. This years vintage, so full cheeriness here too. Great beer but I think the Drie Fonteinen beats it. I’d definitely buy again if I can get my hands on it.

2017 Vintage - on tap. Pours a rich rosy pink, frothy 1.5" pinkish head that slowly settles out, minimal lacing. Nose is stone fruit, woody lambic notes, oak, mellowed earthy aromas. Tart cherry is forward on the palate, but in no way bracing or piercing - the flavor is very flattened out and blends nicely with the underlying earthy, oaky, even musty lambic elements. Mouthfeel is full and incredibly soft; finish lingers with a long-lasting cherry tartness. A treat worth seeking out.

2014 Vintage (I think - the label was a bit smudged)

Appearance: Pours the color of pink grapefruit juice with a two finger head that makes a lot of noise as it fizzes down but doesn't completely fade; splotchy lacing

Smell: Barnyard horseblanket, lemon and tart cherry all wrapped in an oak barrel of aromatics

Taste: Funk and oak forward with the dry aspect joining with the lemon/cherry flavors; as the sour receptors on the side of the tongue move into action, the tart cherry flavors increase their prominence

Mouthfeel: Light to medium body with moderate to high carbonation; puckery

Overall: It has been a while since I have had a Cantillon and we are just at a different level here from the other Krieks I have tasted in recent times; so much complexity while also being eminently drinkable

 

Poured from 750ml bottle into Chimay goblet.

L - Rosy pink pour with baby pink head that dissipates quickly.

S - Sour, wet straw with faint fruity candy notes. Sweet tarts.

T - Sharp sour taste, tempered by a light bitterness, sour cherry and citrus notes, funky brett in the background.

F - Biting carbonation sting, mouth-watering and juicy.

An amazing balance between lambic and fruit, neither fully tempered by the other.

2016 bottling

 

 

Corked and capped "champagne" bottle, vintage 2002, RBESG 2005 Grand Tasting. Hazy red colour. Sour cherries and horseblanket aroma. Flavour is sour, oh so sour - very sour cherries dominate, but there are lemon and grapefruit notes too. Spritzy. Sour aftertaste. Moreish indeed - one of the few beers at the tasting I found hard to leave for the next sample.