Kriek style sour aged on Stevnsbær sour cherries.
Inspired by the Belgian kriek style golden sour beer aged on whole sour cherries. This beer combines a blend of two of our favourite golden sour base beers, both brewed with local Scottish barley, wheat and oats, and fermented with multiple Brettanomyces and bacteria strains.
We aged this base beer for two months on over 400kg of whole ‘Stevnsbær’ sour cherries, sourced from the orchards on the Frederiksdal estate used to produce award-winning Danish cherry wine. Known as the grapes of the North, these sour cherries are ideally suited to growing in the colder climbs of Scandinavia.
Biologique
Vieillie en fût
Avis
Kenny Rodger
1 year ago
4.3
Tart and refreshing a lovely sour beer
Paul G
@ Home1 year ago
4.1
Still beautiful. Check out my previous full review on this beers page.
Tom
1 year ago
4.7
Dunkel Ben
2 years ago
4.4
Paul G
@ radbeer.com2 years ago
4.1
A beer named after one of my favourite songs of all time!
Ruby colour with some murkiness to it, visible carbonation lightly fizzing away. Light cherry aroma that's pleasing and sweet, not over powering, its like a syrup cake topping. The cherries are definitely the main act here with the base sour underlining them.
Nicely sour first sip with a very tarte finish. I'm not huge on cherry in general but this is nice cherry for me. Light and sweet just like on the nose but also sharp sourness. It's all delicate and balanced which makes it particularly morish. The finish is now a bit shorter and manageable with the barley, wheat and oats making an appearance via the base sour.
Aging this base on cherries for four months has had a big impact compared to the basic golden sours by Holy Goat, these are lead by the inherent and subsequent stone fruit flavours, but this brew headlined definitively by cherry with hidden depth. I can't pick out any of those stone fruits from under the cherry, which perhaps isn't surprising as cherry is a strong flavour to impart into a beer or anything for that matter. But instead I only sense a subtle complexity underneath and as I said previously, this is a gentle and balanced offering. For me it's alot more enjoyable than a golden sour even though it's lead by one flavour.
The quality is unmistakable and undeniable, Holy Goat make the fine wine of the sour world. I'd happily have a second of this, if I had one! At this point I'll mention this brew is a 7% ABV and there is no clue to this level of alcohol whilst drinking. Finding an IPA that doesnt reveal it's 7% alc is rare and this sour beer is so light the only way you'd feel it's alcoholic is via comparisons to Kirsch.
I'd recommend this beer to anyone on the strength of its quality and light approach. Of course it's sour as fook and very tarte to begin with but it gets easier to drink with every sip, so alot more accessible than a Flanders Red style brew of theirs.