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Title: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: admin on November 25, 2013, 07:45:36 PM
Very good lambic based kriek. A little too sweet maybe though. Having a bottle in The Headline atm.

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Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: imark on November 25, 2013, 08:11:03 PM
you're gone kriek mad these days!
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: Eoin on November 25, 2013, 09:33:47 PM
Get yourself some cantillon in the Drinkstore then come back to us.

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Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: matthewdick23 on November 25, 2013, 10:09:48 PM
alert alert

shane's account have been hacked.

cos shane doesn't like belgians

remember?
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: imark on November 25, 2013, 10:17:42 PM
Ah yes...you've nearly completed the kriek circuit now.
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: mr hoppy on November 26, 2013, 01:22:59 AM
Quote from: Il Tubo on November 25, 2013, 07:45:36 PM
Very good lambic based kriek. A little too sweet maybe though.

Does not compute. Faro can be sweet. Lambic should never be (although too often it is).

Had Cantillon Kriek with the Christmas goose last year. Great pairing, I often find Cantillon metallic tasting but the fat of the goose balanced that so the cherries really came out in the beer and the acidity of the beer really cut through the fat of the bird. De Ranke Kriek (technically not a lambic) and Drei Fontenein are also excellent krieks.

For extra kriek geek points - have you had Girardin Kriek 1882? :D
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: imark on November 26, 2013, 09:45:22 AM
Timmerman like a few others do an Oude kriek and a sweeter kriek. The oude usually indicates less sweetened and usually higher alcohol.
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: delzep on November 26, 2013, 03:12:22 PM
I like the Boon Oude Kriek. Not too difficult to find here in good offies too (pricey though)
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: mr hoppy on November 26, 2013, 05:18:07 PM
Sorry, hope I didn't come off as a dick there, it's just overly sweet Belgian fruit beers are a bit of a pet hate.
Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: Eoin on November 26, 2013, 05:33:03 PM
Quote from: mr happy on November 26, 2013, 05:18:07 PM
Sorry, hope I didn't come off as a dick there, it's just overly sweet Belgian fruit beers are a bit of a pet hate.


The sweet ones are a good introduction, but when you've had the real ones they just don't cut it.

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Title: Re: Timmermans Kriek
Post by: Eoin on November 26, 2013, 05:35:06 PM
Like the tubmeister I broadly dislike Belgian beers.....

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