Debatable cherry-soured American Wild Ale with Flemish Red Ale leanings (and labeled a Belgian kriek) lacks efficient carbolic nature but scores points as a brettanomyces-laden Sour Ale. Aged in oak barrels, its tart cherry pucker gets underscored by cork-y cider dryness, vinous green grape tannins, raspberry vinaigrette musk and frisky white-peppered snip. Leathery farmhouse funk saddles oaken cherry theme.

One of brewers’ most popular and well-integrated sour ales, remarkable Belgian-styled Flanders red ale retains soft-flowing tannic bitterness as well as sweet fruit tartness and fermented lactic acidity. Oak barrel-aged cherry sourness retrieves musty Sauvignon-Cabernet warmth and vanilla-spiced cranberry-raspberry wisp crowding loud carbolic fizz. Sweet cider and rhubarb cherry pie illusions fill the middle as grassy horse-blanket earthiness parches vinegary white grape pucker at the backend. Nutmeg-clove add depth and overall acidity level never overwhelms.

Deep ruby-hued pinkish-headed Belgian Kriek knockoff offers expected tart cherry pucker and oak-aged citron dryness. Herbal hops add immediate depth to grape tannin acridity and vegetal nuance, but vinous sourness crimps acidic finish.

More palatable than Belle-Vue Gueuze Lambic as its obligatory tart cherry essence gets softly spice-hopped for suitable citric-soured tang. Berry overtones enhance summer ale flow.

Impossibly dry pinkish-headed golden-red lambic with persistent eye-squinting sourness, uncommon dry-smoked lemon tartness, and stinging limestone acidity hiding unripe white grape influence as tempestuous vinegar vulgarity and bitterest lemon lull overtake distant cherry tang. So imposingly tart only highly individualized tastes need apply. Try it with sharp cheese if you dare, though may cause heartburn if quaffed with spicy foods.

Eye-squinting white grape tartness, sour cherry pucker, and cork-like toil will clear out closed-minded simpler tastes that’d invert its high rating. Like a dry white wine aperitif, its leathery tannin acidity, cask-like oak nose, and grassy mouthfeel provide affirmative astringency amateurs will dismiss as vinegar.

Ineffectually mellow bone-dry lambic (comparable to a less formidable mouth-puckering gueuze) pours a lighter shade of garnet as slight magenta head forms. Sour oak-aged cherries immerse distant cranberry-strawberry-rhubarb tartness and vinegary tannic white grape acidity. Minimal soft-hopped carbolic fizz eases leathery earthen barnyard funk and dusty rose slunk.

Pithily raspberry-fermented ruby-hazed pink-blushed Kriek knockoff remains more raspberry-tart than cherry-sweet. Unripe red grape-cranberry souring and slim floral bouquet provide some depth, but syrupy soda-like flow and dry-fruited finish hampered by brazen acidity.

Just whiff the extreme dry citric tartness of this opaque cork-influenced cherry ale to usurp its acquired sour ale taste. Tobacco, earthen wood, and peat moss envelop white grape esters by dryly acidic white wine finish, relegating tannic black cherry essence to mere destitute afterthought.

Judiciously tart red cherry pucker and generous pineapple-raspberry tang pace densely hopped magenta-pink dessert ale. White, yellow, and red grape tannins sieze the moment alongside stone-fruited grandeur. Grenadine reminder lurks below fruited malt sweetness.

Fluttering tart cherry theme and sweet soda sugaring provide winning essence. Musty grain overtones and moderate hop bitterness never suffocate authentic cherry flavor. Dark burgundy-hued appearance misleading for such an easy-to-drink ale.