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Lindemans Kriek

Lindemans Kriek

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Producer Lindemans
Country Belgium
Region Pajottenland
ABV 3.50%

Tasting Notes

A slightly sweet cherry lambic beer made in the traditional Belgian style by the Lindemans family. Lambic beers are fermented using wild yeasts in the air and aged in oak barrels for years to give a sour tart flavour. For this beer, cherries are then added to give the beer a pleasant and full fruity sweetness that offsets the sour base before a pleasing and refreshing tart finish.

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More About Lindemans Kriek

A classic Belgian cherry lambic from Brouwerij Lindemans, made by blending spontaneously fermented lambic beer with sour cherry juice, creating one of the most widely recognised fruit beers in the world.

It pours a striking deep ruby-red with a pink foam head, and immediately shows intense fresh cherry aroma and flavour, more like ripe cherry syrup than sharp fruit.

On the palate it’s soft, lightly sparkling and very fruit-forward, with sweet cherry, red berry and a gentle tartness underneath from the lambic base. The sweetness is deliberately prominent, balanced just enough by a mild acidity to keep it refreshing rather than cloying.

 

Meet the Producer, Lindemans

Lindemans

Style: Brewery

Belgium takes beer very seriously, though thankfully not always solemnly. Lindemans sits firmly in the part of Belgian brewing where things get slightly strange in the best possible way. Spontaneous fermentation, wild yeast floating through the air, beers tasting of cherries and sharp acidity rather than predictable bitterness.

Based in the Pajottenland region near Brussels, Lindemans has been brewing lambic since the early 1800s. Lambic itself is one of beer’s genuinely unique styles. Instead of adding cultivated yeast, brewers cool the wort in open vessels and let native airborne yeasts and bacteria begin fermentation naturally. Most breweries would consider this catastrophic contamination. In Belgium, it became cultural heritage.

The resulting beers can range wildly in style. Oude Gueuze brings dry funk, lemony acidity and earthy cellar notes that wine drinkers often fall in love with unexpectedly. The fruit lambics, especially Kriek and Framboise, layer cherries or raspberries onto that sour backbone with far more balance than people expect from brightly coloured beer. Yes, they’re fruity. No, they’re not alcopops.

Lindemans also helped introduce lambic to a much wider audience without entirely sanding off the weird edges that make it interesting. Some traditionalists grumble about sweeter styles, which is basically mandatory behaviour in Belgian beer circles, but the brewery still produces genuinely excellent traditional lambics alongside the more accessible range.

These are beers that remind you fermentation can still feel mysterious occasionally. Slightly funky, beautifully refreshing and often much more food-friendly than people realise. Particularly with cheese, charcuterie or anything involving pork and mustard.