Category Archives: Lambic – Fruit
#172 – Timmermans Kriek
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4 % It has been a while since I last supped on a Timmermans beer (#12), which gave me the opportunity to talk about their gueuze. It seems only right now to introduce a little bit … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Timmermans
Tagged as Anthony Martin, beer, Belgian, Brasserie, Brussels, Frans, Gueuze, Henry Vanheyleweghen, Itterbeek, Jacobus, Kriek, Lambic, Mole, Paul, Taupe, Timmermans, Tradition, van Cutsem, Walraevens
#157 – Lindemans Tea Beer
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3.5 % The rather adventurous Lindemans Tea Beer was first brewed in 1995; a lambic beer brewed with barley, malt, wheat and hops, albeit fermented and matured with tea leaves. The concept of a tea beer … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Lambic - Fruit, Lindemans
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Cottage Economy, English, Fruit, Japanese, Lambic, laudanum, Lindemans, malt, Tea, William Cobbett
#152 – Belle-Vue Kriek Extra
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.3 % There are a whole host of fruit beers on the market that label themselves rather gratuitously. One that had already begun to confuse me was the way that Belle-Vue had two different types of … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Belle-Vue (InBev), Lambic - Fruit
Tagged as Becks, beer, Belgian, Belle-Vue, Bruges, cherry, Extra, Fier, Kriek, Lambic, Stella Artois
#147 – Boon Kriek
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4 % It seems a long time ago now that I was first drinking the Boon Oude Gueuze (#89) where we first met Frank Boon. I said then I would continue his story, and it’s definitely … Continue reading →
#130 – Oud Beersel Oude Kriek
Size: 375 ml ABV: 6.5 % The striking feature of the Oud Beersel Oude Kriek label is the elegantly designed illustration of a castle. This Kasteel van Beersel is the most striking tourist attraction of the town of Beersel from … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Oud Beersel
Tagged as beer, Beersel, Belgian, blender, Brussels, Drie Fonteinen, Duke of Brabant, Jan II, Kasteel, Lambic, League of Friends, Maximilian, Oud Beersel, radish, Rake, white cheese
#129 – Cassisframbozenlambic
Size: Cask ABV: 4 % There was a damn fine reason to be in The Rake pub this evening, which was the highly vaunted and much anticipated Lambic beer festival. I had started the evening on a high with the … Continue reading →
#128 – Oudbeitje
Size: 375 ml ABV: 6 % Oudbeitje gets your mouth into a twist in more ways than one. At the bar at The Rake pub in South London I attempted to pronounce it, but after the third miserable failure coupled … Continue reading →
#126 – St. Louis Premium Kriek
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3.5 % Saint Louis has done rather well for himself in the naming stakes. A state in Mexico, a city in the US, a famous baseball team, an Oscar winning movie, and of course the cherry … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Lambic - Fruit, Van Honsebrouck
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Brewers Guild, cherry, Crusades, France, Fruit, King Louis IX, Kriek, Lambic, Premium, St Louis
#109 – Pecheresse
Size: 250 ml ABV: 2.5 % Some people after a severe night on the tiles (of the Scrabble variety of course) take a glass of water to bed with them to cure the inevitable hangover. Belgian beer connoisseurs of course, … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Lindemans
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Clark Gable, Fruit, Joan Crawford, Lambic, Lindemans, peach, Peche, Pecheresse, sinner
#95 – Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic
Size: 375 ml ABV: 5 % Cantillon has five entries in the ‘Top 100 Belgian beers to try before you die’ – it would have been more but the authors felt it might skew the book somewhat. As we have … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Cantillon, Lambic - Fruit
Tagged as barrel, beer, Belgian, Brussels, Cantillon, cherry, fermentation, Kellery, Kriek, Lambic, Lindemans, Payottenland, St Truiden
#84 – Lindemans Framboise
Size: 375 ml ABV: 2.5 % Lindemans have always been a well known lambic brewer following their decision to export to the United States in 1979 – the first Lambic producer to do so. The US remains a large part … Continue reading →
#78 – Lindemans Kriek
Size: 375 ml ABV: 3.5 % It is remarkable to think that it has taken 78 beverages of the Belgian variety to finally cross paths with a Kriek. I am not a massive fan of cherries, especially the darker kind … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Lambic - Fruit, Lindemans
Tagged as beer, Belgian, cherry, corkscrew, fermentation, Kriek, Lambic, Lindemans, Morello, oak, Schaerbeekse, vat
