Bios Kriek - Brouwerij Van Steenberge N.V.

masterhomebrewer

Massachusetts

4.1/5  rDev +18.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

A -- Pours a beige-colored, one-finger rocky and fluffy head that lingers through the tasting.

S -- Cherries, brett, balsamic vinegar.

T-- Some funk and a ton of balsamic -- sour and not overly complex. Taste fades quickly leaving only a slight, lingering dark-fruit finish.

M -- Medium-thin bodied, prickly carbonation.

D -- If I lived in Brussels or some such place, I could see myself drinking these by the six in the summer. Very easy to drink and satisfying sour. Hard to get here, and too expensive to session.

Serving type: bottle

03-05-2010 23:57:43 | More by masterhomebrewer

beerguy101

California

3.88/5  rDev +12.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Medium red color. No head. Aroma is a cherry cough drop, with a touch of malt. Sweet and tart and then sweet again. Once you get past the overwhelming sweetness there is a nice malt backbone. Cherries are sour and tart and some of the sweetness disappears as it warms. It way too sweet, but there are some nice flavor elements going on in the background. Weird how the cherries can be so damn sweet and still be sour. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and tart. Aftertaste is sweet

Serving type: bottle

07-14-2003 18:18:20 | More by beerguy101

ricke

Sweden

3.43/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A: Ruby color, slightly hazy. A nice, pink and dense head with nice looking lacings. Quite good retention.

S: A distinct smell of candy-like cherries, not really the artificial candy smell you get from some sweetened fruit lambics, though. Rather, it's like hard cherry candies. One-sided, but kind of nice due to the distinctness of the aromas.

T: Big sweet cherry flavors of the same kind as in the smell quickly hand over to a tart fruity flavor with a slightly lemony character. The tart dimension really adds to the brew, but it's still rather one-sided. Faint earthy yeast note. The finish is slightly dry with some mineral notes and tart cherries. The finish is rather short.

M: Medium body, sparkly carbonation. Slightly dry.

D: Quite tasty actually, but still far away from the top examples of fruit lambic. But it's also far away from the sugary sweet examples of the style. Would perhaps drink it again if I had the opportunity.

Serving type: bottle

05-18-2009 20:29:34 | More by ricke

Knapp85

Pennsylvania

3.43/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

This poured out as a very foamy and lively brew, it had a nice red color with a pink looking head on it. The head settles leaving a little lacing behind. The smell of the beer is sweet and sour, a pretty good balance there. The taste of the beer was sour upfront with cherry flavors that faded into a subtle sweetness in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel of the beer was lighter than expected but it wasn't bad. This beer isn't really my style but its worth trying if you're into this.

Serving type: bottle

06-04-2011 18:35:15 | More by Knapp85

Jason

Massachusetts

3.4/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Presentation: 25 cl brown bottle with a consume before freshness date on the back label.

Appearance: Thin bubbly pink lace, hazy reddish burgundy color.

Smell: Big cherry aroma, smells of cherry hard candies to be exact. Nothing but cherry.

Taste & Mouthfeel: Ample crispness with a bitty mouth feel, quick one-two punch of cherries and tartness. Dusty yeastiness and a ghost like dirt flavor in the middle. The tartness gets little watery as does the cherry flavor. Slight metallic flavor in the end.

Drinkability & Notes: A half decent little fruit lambic here, a bit sweet and some would say with an extract character. Either way it was tasty.

Serving type: bottle

06-16-2004 23:47:12 | More by Jason

hopdog

Pennsylvania

3.38/5  rDev -2.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

250ml bottle with the Cherish label.

***This one was a gusher and poured all head***

Settled into a red color with a reddish / pink head. Aromas of cherries, other berries, and lightly funky. Tastes of sweet and tart cherries.

Notes from 11/16/07

Serving type: bottle

12-15-2008 21:50:10 | More by hopdog

dogfooddog

Panama

3.25/5  rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

pours 50% head, light pink. Odor is overwhelmingly that of sweet cherry, as in sweet cherry candy or possibly some types of medicine. No lambic notes detected at all, wonder what proportion of actual lambic is used in this beer - i get none in the nose.

Taste is overwhelmingly sweet cherries, if not for the body you could tell me I was drinking some carbonated cherry pop with a lot of sugar. Some tartness in the finish, like a good cough syrup. Once again, nothing reminding me of lambic.

If sweet is your thing, this might be for you. Hard to find fault with it as long as you are looking for a sweet fruity-flavored beer.

Serving type: bottle

05-14-2006 03:47:08 | More by dogfooddog

Sigmund

Norway

2.78/5  rDev -19.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Draught at Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen. Clear deep red colour, pinkish head. Aroma is overwhelming sour and sweet cherries. Flavour is one-dimensional of not very good sour cherries, generally sour & sweet with a tart finish. Sour aftertaste that lasts "forever", paralysed my tastebuds for a long time.

Serving type: on-tap

07-01-2010 22:18:53 | More by Sigmund