Cherry beer (1 Viewer)

[ponderosa]

Highly recommended

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[Lefty Frizzell]

Where did you get that from?

 

[Bellatrix]

This stuff is amazing.

We've been getting it in our local Oddbins, which, unfortunately, is in the UK.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Is that the same stuff as Kriek Boom?
You can get that in blanch, it's pretty great.

 

[Catwoman]

Hanna's Cherry Cider is also .|..| .

 

[Lili Marlene]

I had strawberry cider the other day. It went down a bit too well.

 

[M. Stratosphere]

Cherry's are up there with aniseed...the food of the devil. Rotten stuff.
and then you had to go mix it with beer!! the elixir of life itself!! all so very wrong

 

[Squiggle]

I really like some of the Floris beers - they make a lovely summer drink. The passionfriut one is delicious. I have yet to find them in an off-licence though.

 

[ratmonkey]

Is that the same stuff as Kriek Boom?
You can get that in blanch, it's pretty great.

Boon is the brand name; kriek is the generic term for it.

 

[Bellatrix]

Don't get this one. It has an alluring champagne-style cork system but is, in fact, growse.

Unless you actually like the taste of beer. In which case, go nuts.

 

[the departed]

im eating cherry ice cream.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

lilac wines and whelans off licence have it lefty.

 

[imagoo]

Cherry beer Got to try so i would know id it's a thumbs up or down.

 

[flashback]

I can just about handle a bottle of that stuff... if its really cold.
Not mad about it at all at all.
Very sweet in fairness... you'd really want a bit bland food with it to sort of take the edge off.

 

[ratmonkey]

Not necessarily sweet; Cantillon kriek is not at all sweet.
Apparently back in the day, you'd be given sugar with the kriek to sweeten it.

Cantillon also do a fantastic gueuze, not likely to find it around here though.
And they sell jam made from their beers.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

popular for about one week in the summer of 1986....

 

[Wobbler]

I've had both the Lindermans and Boon Krieks. Wasn't mad on either. Both of those are Lambics (which is a beer fermented with wild yeast). I'd love to try some Cantilion beers but I think I'll need to visit Belgium. Boon Gueze is fantastic once you get used to the weird flavours. Gueze is Lambic without fruit.

 

[Juno]

Carvills on Camden St has some sort of cherry beer though I can't remember what brand it was.

 

[ratmonkey]

I'd love to try some Cantilion beers but I think I'll need to visit Belgium.

Cantillon brewery is ten minute walk from the Midi train station.
Last time I was there, we called to the brewery arriving in Brussels, instead of on the way out. Carting two sizeable boxes across Brussels when one is coming back past the place again later anyway is not a good idea.