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LINDEMAN’S KRIEK LAMBIC

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.

RODENBACH RED BACH

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.