Oud Beersel Oude Kriek Vieille

Observe: The colour was immediately of interest, it did not fit the SRM scale at all, there are white bubbles with a light red hue. Upon opening the bottle, it was corked, immitting a slight cherry odur and some notable gas. It is a reddish almost a little purple colour. LIke a ruby red.

Aroma: The first smell notes are vinegar, like a red wine vinegar and some acidic sweetness. The cherries come through and seem more sour. There is the smell of some barrel age or some age in general.

Taste: Immiediately hit with a pungent sourness, but very little bitterness. It does have a vinegar quality to it. The cherry does come through, but it comes through very tart and sour, rather than light and crisp. Im not really getting a lot of the bread characteristics I would assume to find in a beer, it comes through more wine like with very in your face bold flavours. The carbonation is rather mild, it has a more bold heavy body and is much more sticky and viscous. There is a little dryness, some tannins from leaving the wine to sit in the mouth. There is the taste of some age in the barrel, a bit of woodiness and that barrel taste comes through for sure. I am getting some sort of alcoholic almond liquor flavour coming through, like an amaretto cookie