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Foamers' Folly Brewing Co.
- From:
- Foamers' Folly Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 6.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 18, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 10, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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To celebrate our sixth anniversary , we took our aging program to a new level with this beer. Pouring a pale orange-pink , this Kriek was aged in our oak Foeder , then blended with montmorency tart cherries. With ample brettanomyces and cherry on the nose , and subtle hints of kitchen spice from having been aged on whole fruit , this beer balances puckering sour with refreshing fruit and complex wild yeast.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.88/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Foamers Folly 'SIX' Fruit Lambic @ 6.5% , served from a 500 ml bottle
A-pour is a light pink from the bottle to a cloudy fuchsia (orange/pink) in the glass with a small size pinkish head quickly dissipating leaving a minimal lace ring along the tulip
S-Montmorency tart cherries
T-tart & sour , especially the swallow
MF-mild carbonation , big medium body
Ov-something lacking
prost LampertLand
Feb 18, 2023A-pour is a light pink from the bottle to a cloudy fuchsia (orange/pink) in the glass with a small size pinkish head quickly dissipating leaving a minimal lace ring along the tulip
S-Montmorency tart cherries
T-tart & sour , especially the swallow
MF-mild carbonation , big medium body
Ov-something lacking
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
4.44/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 3 | overall: 5
4.44/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 3 | overall: 5
Cloudy pink-peach color. Poured a very short head that collapsed to nothing in seconds. Too cloudy to see the carbonation level. Left no lacing.
Strong funky sour smell. Light fruit smell, similar to but not the same as regular eating cherries. Something is faintly sweet. Maybe a faint malt. Swirling the glass kicked up a stronger cherry smell.
Just at the border of tart and sour; not quite to puckering level. Moderate funk to go with the sour. Medium-mild cherry flavor, but not the cherries I'm used to eating. There is a light spice with the cherry, similar to cinnamon or maybe powdered ginger. I think I have eaten cherry pies that had a light shake of this spice in them. Slightly bitter, but this seems like it is more likely from the cherries than from hops. Very light malt; if this was a cherry pie, then someone picked off almost all the crust. The aftertaste is mostly the same flavors except that the bitters and the spice are slightly boosted. This slowly rolls down to a light bitter and spice.
Light tongue tingling. Grows to large bubbles but they disappear quickly. Somewhat astringent, especially during the aftertaste.
I find that many Kriek Lambics are too sweet for me. This is close to the other end of the sour/sweet spectrum. Very nice blend of flavors that reminds me of a specific (but I don't remember which) Belgian Kriek Lambic that I particularly enjoyed. Many North American offerings use regular eating cherries, which supplies a very different flavor compared to this and the Belgian originals. The only thing I would change is to reduce the cinnamon or ginger spice, assuming that it was deliberately added and not just inherent to the cherries. I hope they turn this into a seasonal beer and not just a one-off.
Jan 11, 2023Strong funky sour smell. Light fruit smell, similar to but not the same as regular eating cherries. Something is faintly sweet. Maybe a faint malt. Swirling the glass kicked up a stronger cherry smell.
Just at the border of tart and sour; not quite to puckering level. Moderate funk to go with the sour. Medium-mild cherry flavor, but not the cherries I'm used to eating. There is a light spice with the cherry, similar to cinnamon or maybe powdered ginger. I think I have eaten cherry pies that had a light shake of this spice in them. Slightly bitter, but this seems like it is more likely from the cherries than from hops. Very light malt; if this was a cherry pie, then someone picked off almost all the crust. The aftertaste is mostly the same flavors except that the bitters and the spice are slightly boosted. This slowly rolls down to a light bitter and spice.
Light tongue tingling. Grows to large bubbles but they disappear quickly. Somewhat astringent, especially during the aftertaste.
I find that many Kriek Lambics are too sweet for me. This is close to the other end of the sour/sweet spectrum. Very nice blend of flavors that reminds me of a specific (but I don't remember which) Belgian Kriek Lambic that I particularly enjoyed. Many North American offerings use regular eating cherries, which supplies a very different flavor compared to this and the Belgian originals. The only thing I would change is to reduce the cinnamon or ginger spice, assuming that it was deliberately added and not just inherent to the cherries. I hope they turn this into a seasonal beer and not just a one-off.
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