Kriek Tasting and 2016 Preparations

The year of 2015 comes to a close and we get ready to usher in 2016. We have some sour fermentations that will finish in 2016 so we thought we’d taste some commercial Kriek and think about the future.

We have a few sours coming together and maybe we will put some of different fruits or doing some blending. For inspiration, we samples two different commercial Krieks: Jacobins Kriek – Brouwerij Bockor and Lindemans Kriek.

Compared side by side, Lindemans’ reputation as being very extract fruit like and super sweet becomes apparent. I don’t necessarily think there is a good reason to put down any beer as every beer will find some audience. Otherwise, they don’t remain on the market as prevalent as the Lindeman product line has been.

Lindemans is a great way to introduce people to either “sourish” beer or to get people into beer that has fruit in it. In this tasting, their offering was like drinking cherry juice compared to the other Kriek.

The Jacobins Kriek has a lot of character more reminiscent of what you’d expect from a funky ferment, aged in wood and on fruit.

It tasted much more like what you’d hope to produce at home. It is a nice bottle if you can find it at your favorite beer store.

Check out some of our sour beers on this post: https://www.brew-dudes.com/sour-batch-tastings/6250

Well, this is the last post of the year. A big thanks to everyone that reads these posts over here on the blog site. We’ve almost entirely dedicated the site to the video postings from our YouTube channel. We plan to get more text based posted and recipe formulations up in 2016. (Still working on those plans).

Is there something else you’d like to see on this site vs. the YouTube channel? Let us know.

Thanks for riding along with us again in 2015. Here’s to a great 2016 and beyond!
BREW ON!!!