Lefebvre Belgian Kriek
A new cherry beer made from a basis of Blanche de Bruxelles.
2.6
171 reviews
Rebecq-Quenast, Belgium
Community reviews
S: sour cherry A: pink foam, cloudy ruby T: very sweet, slight sour finish P: refreshing, fizzy
Hazy ruby red color with dense activity. Foamy pinkish 3 finger head, lasting around 10 minutes, with moderate lacing. Flavors of cherries, candy, medicinal, cranberries, and roasted grains. Tons of sugars, but quite pleasant, with low sharpness. Slick and smooth almost full body with prickly carbonation. Light finish, lingering sweet fruits with very faint roasted malts. Feels more like a cooler than a beer. For what it is supposed to be, the quality is decent. Good for sessions and very accessible for those who doesn’t like beer. Better than the Newton, but very similar. Very tasty, with decent freshness. Overall average quality.
Bottle 0.33. Colore rosso rubino. Al naso il sapore dell’amarena, della cigliegia candita. Al gusto il dolce amaro della cigliegia matura. Retrogusto aspro molto beverina e dissetante.
Bottle shared by Marduk, thanks! Hazy pink brew, white head. Nose is bubblegum fruitiness, sweet cherries. Flavor is sweet, cherry bubblegum. Fizzy mouthfeel. Eurgh.
330ml bottle. Hazy pink color. Small size, bubbly pink head, stays. Sweet, cherries, white candy, caramel in aroma. Sweet, leather, perfume, cherries and jammy in taste. Leather and cherry jam in aftertaste. Way too sweet for me.
Bottle (shared by marduk, thanks). Pours pink. Aroma is very sweet and cherries. Flavor is sweet, some soap, some cherries, slight sourness, feels bit acidic. Overall: not good.
Intenzivan miris trešanja koji me podsjetio na hubba bubbu iz mladih dana. Okus isto više kao sok nego piva. Dobro za probati gutljaj ili dva
Pours clear pink with medium white pinkish head. Aroma is sweet, sourish, overcooked cherries, some caramel, artificial, syrup. Taste is sweet, syrup, home made juice, raw sugar, cherries, very light bitterness, lack of sourness. Too lemonade for me.
Red coral colour with a light pink fluffy head. The only good thing in this beer. Too sweet, too artificial, too cherry juice... Too fake
Bottle, 330 ml, shared with JFK10000. Pours intensive red, off white head. Cherries all around. Sweet with sourish note. Very artificial. Thin bodied.
Non mi aspettavo una gran birra ed è quello che ho provato. Prevale su tutto la ciliegia.. non sembra proprio una birra.
May. ’16. A 0.33 l bottle. This one poured a hazy cherry colored body with a small pink head atop. Unripe cherry aroma was not too intense. Flavor was sweet, cherry, quite fake but had some fine moments with grass, fine black cherry sourness and nicely astringent finish. On the other hand, it was also soapy, gluey and perfumey. Expected it to be better than raspberry, even enjoyable, but unfortunately it was not.
0.33l bottle. Red color with pink head. Aroma is cherry. Taste is sweet with cherry. Overall it’s nice beer, cherry character is not too artificial.
Rövid, de nagy hab. Színe narancssárgába hajló piros, kissé homályos, de még átlátszó. Illata intenzív fűszeres, meggyes vonással. Nagyon finom, tökéletes az összhang a meggy és a komló között. Édes, savanyú, fanyar, keserű, fűszeres, és mindez tökéletesen kiegyensúlyozva. Utóíze is ugyanezt az összhangot testesíti meg. Testes sör.
This one is a bit underrated. Okay, the taste is driven by the cherries and doesn’t really leave room for others, it’s sweet (overly sweet, some would say) and there’s not even a bit of sourness, the added sugar is a problem and the low alcohol content make it seem like a carbonated cherry juice with low ABV, rather than a beer, yet it’s worth trying just for the fun of it. As long as you don’t expect the ’beer experience’ you would get from an IPA, stout or others such, is okay. Come summer, it’s a nice drink to have as a starter, surely not a session beer.
Hazy to cloudy red body, small, slightly pinky head. Cherry shampoo aroma, parfumy taste, artificial cherry. Average carbonation, thin to medium body. //bottle from Metro
Beautifful, cherry colour with nice head a cherry taste, very tasteful and refreshung but to expensive
Bottled 330ml. -from Vrutak Zagreb. Cloudy ruby/red coloured, medium sized pinkish head, glue and cherries in the nose. Semi artificial cherry taste with notes of glue and some acidity. Sweetish finish. Watery also.
the aroma is fruity with shades of cherry, candy and toffee... a lot of cherry in the taste, also notes of strawberry, candy, toffee and brown sugar... the aftertaste is sweet and fruity...
Aroma of cherry but also many grass notes, good head quite persistant, deep red, taste of cherry, strong sweetness, light body, medium carbonation...i don’t like it very much, i want to try other fruit beers in order to compare because for now i prefer a good lambic.
Bottle at home. Slight hazy red with light pink head. Looks nice. Lots of cherry candy and soda, light herbs, dough, sugar, tart strawberries. Very sweet with a light chemical bitter finish. Medium bodied. Just what you’d expect.
0.33 l bottle from Stockman, Helsinki. Colour is deep red. Aroma has cherry and grass. Taste has cherry...and the other stuff (sugar etc..).
From a bottle. Pours deep cloudy red, thick and creamy, huge cherry up front, surprised I like it.
Ma première expérience avec cette "bière" remonte à plus de 3 ans. Je me souviens avoir envoyé le liquide dans le drain après avoir peiné à boire la moitié de la bouteille. Aujourd’hui, comme cette bouteille se retrouve dans un mix-pack de la brasserie Lefebvre acheté récemment, pilons sur l’orgueuil et voyons voir encore une fois. La lecture des ingrédients n’annonce rien de bon. La seule mention de cerise est du jus (15% du liquide). Le reste n’est que sucre et saveurs artificielles. À l’oeil, robe rouge plutôt fade et trouble, mince col de mousse. Arômes de suçon aux cerises et sucre. Je ne détecte rien d’autre. Agréable au nez? Oui, si on ne s’en tient qu’au fait que des suçons aux cerises, c’est bon. Je me sens nostalgique, je me vois à 8 ans trillant mes bonbons d’halloween, riant avec mes amis. Mais je me rapelle tout à coup que c’est une bière. Claque au visage. Je reviens sur Terre. Grande inspiration et on goûte. Rien n’a changé. Toujours ce goût de cerises bonbons trop sucrés. Une finale de sirop contre la toux grasse. Une texture beaucoup trop lourde qui met à l’évidence la quantité de sucre dans le liquide. Je ne peux pas croire que c’est une bière. La mention "kriek" sur l’étiquette est une honte pour les brasseries qui en font des vrais. J’ai bu le tiers de la bouteille jusqu’à maintenant. Je n’irai pas plus loin.
opalescent red colour, huge pinkish head; aroma and taste of cherry and marzipan; refreshing
330ml bottle. Pours red with a thick pink head. Aroma of cherry drops. Taste is sweet cherry, strawberry, sugar.
Liquide rouge bonbon, avec une mousse rose qui s’efface vite, mais qui est soutenue par une carbonatation assez abondante. Le nez est très sucré, avec un soupçon de sirop pour la toux. En bouche, le sucre est envahissant, jusqu’à disparaître dans un torrent vaguement acidulé, et la bière est trop épaisse (ou riche) pour vraiment être désaltérante. Aucun malt, aucun houblon, aucune signature de levure, et même si elle grimpait à 10% abv, il n’y aurait aucun alcool. Monochrome et écoeurante.
Fľaša 0,33 l z Tesca. Tmavočervená kalná farba, hustá vysoká pena s ružovým nádychom. Nižšia rezkosť, cukor, čerešňová chuť. Bolo by to dobré ovocné pivo, keby nebolo tak príšerne sladké.
Keg@bcafe l’etoile, vic sur aisne, picardie, france. Red pink beer with small pink head and decent lacing. Aroma is cherry drops. Taste is cherry drops, a hint of sourness and some sherbet. Ok.
330ml bottle. Hazy red body with a pink head. Tastes like cherryjuice and glue. No depth at all.