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 grape bitterness as well as sweet fruited 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. Wispy nutmeg-clove spicing adds depth and overall acidity never overwhelms.

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.

Fizzy champagne flow and tart cherry dryness anchor fruited wheat base of corked Belgian ale. Sour cherry skin esters amplify oncoming musty earthiness. Vinous acidity hides musty sherry-port notes. Fine as light digestif.

Prevalent cherry-soured essence and penetrating stone-fruited waft underscored by musty horse-blanketed hay musk and leathery wheat-dried parch. Oaken cherry midst gains raspberry, cranberry and red grape illusions. Spontaneous yeast fermentation aids subsidiary vinous champagne tartness of exquisite digestif.

Fine reddish-hazed pink-headed Lambic with cap-cork setup, overpowering cherry aroma, and eye-squinting stone-fruited tartness best served with sherbet. Sour black cherries ripen dry oak undercurrent to tertiary barley-wheat spine. An obvious fruity crossover with its distinctive cherry soda spritz, ancillary citric brightness and sparkling champagne fizz.

Blending Frank Boon’s imported oak-aged Belgian cherries with raspy American hops, this enticing pinkish amber lambic-fermented creation rivals finest dessert beer from New Glarus. Tart medicinal cherry frontage given muted quince-grape seduction and ester-y grapefruit tang anticipated dry-spiced stone-fruited finish maintains.

Fantastic Kriek-like red ale retains perfect sweet ‘n’ sour cherry pie essence. Exquisite red-black cherry juiciness informs secondary sharp-tongued green apple tartness and strawberry-papaya-kiwi-melon tropicalia topping syrupy candi-sugared malting usurped by soda-like hop spritz. Though peculiar to behold translucent garnet-hued pink-headed ale pouring from green bottle, stylistically it’s second only to New Glarus Raspberry Tart and Lindeman’s Framboise.

Luscious sour red cherry theme rises above heavy candi-sugared malting. Mouth-puckering maraschino cherry tartness blends bruised cherry, tannic cherry, and black cherry illusions. Overripe orange tang and cranberry juice souring secure fruited edifice.

Tart cherry souring concealed by leathery oak-dried white grape tannin and slightly acidic citrus finish. Fine seafood accompaniment.

Strong medicinal cherry tartness will get eyes squinting in no time flat. Carbolic soda flow and baked apple souring stimulate the senses as well. Musty stone-fruited backdrop receives tinny oxidation. Novices may be wiser to try cheaper Sam Adams Cherry Wheat instead. But true Belgian ale lovers will enjoy its dessert beer styling.