taste Beer with a pure cherry flavour that is fresh and pleasantly tart, with a masterful sour-sweet balance. After aging a spontaneously fermented golden ale in port barrels with whole Balaton cherries and then bottling that beer, the barrel –and cherries — were topped off with a spontaneous pale wheat ale.

The attack is strong and lively, passing into a varied palette of flavors that strikes a perfect balance between the sweetness of the fruit and the softly sour character of lambic. Lindemans have been brewing this beer since 1979 and it has won various beer awards during this time. After testing out the waters with Lindemans’ Kriek, I’d recommend seeking out this farmhouse version. For this beer, peaches are then added to give the beer a pleasant, aromatic sweetness that offsets the sour base before a pleasing and refreshing tart finish.Beer Description: This traditional type of cherry fruit beer is more acid and less fruity, due to the brewery adding the juice of fresh sour cherries to the lambic beer. I’d had the style in the past, but I don’t think I’d ever considered each sip as I did at The Sovereign. Because of the limited availability of sour cherries from Schaerbeek, the traditional ingredient for Kriek, Lindemans Kriek is made using unsweetened cherry juice which is added to a mixture of lambics of different ages.

Our meeting with the American beer importer and connoisseur Charles Finkel in the 1970s has turned the market segment of fruit beers upside down.Brewery Lindemans begyndte at brygge lambicøl i 1809, og nu 200 år og 8 generationer senere er det blevet kendt over hele verden for sine fantastiske frugtøl. A Ghost Is Born is actually made from the remains of a beer meant to more closely mimic the Kriek style.