Mort Subite

Kriek Lambic

ABV 4.3% • Vol 250 ml • bottle • Belgium • Mid-price • Flavour 4
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This is an example of a lambic with fruit added to the beer and allowed to ferment further - in this case cherries (the 'kriek' of the generic name). The brewery, Mort Subite, is part of Alken-Maes, better known for the unremarkable Kronenbourg. Striking reddish pink colour, with frothy pale pink head. Characteristic lambic nose, but with strong overtones of sherbet. The taste itself is very sweet, with an elusive sharp, citrus note, and an overwhelming, almost sickly sweet, cherryade aftertaste - an alcopop by another name. This would appear to be at the sweeter end of the kriek spectrum, making it far less to this reviewer's taste. Still, a fascinating and unusual beer if you like that sort of thing, probably best drunk in the summer months.

OBBD reviewer: Sparks

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Review updated 06 August 1998

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Fresh start with a cloying tannin aftertaste. Should be drunk rapidly, and only once ever (for the experience).
R.Davies

The best kriek in the world!!!
Bram Van der Steen

I purchased this beer with four others from the Mort Subite line. Mainly to get the glass. The Kriek was nothing great. I'll take a Lindemans over it anyday.
Darren Dieterich

Made with fruit syrup, waaaagh ! and nowhere near the top of the crop of fruit beers… Had this once after a Liefmans Frambozen, which does contain some real cherries on top of the real raspberries, and it tasted of nothing, the little cherry flavour in the Liefmans raspbery beer just blew it away !! Stay away from this, and go on a quest for the holy trinity: Girardin, Boon and Liefmans, be it Kriek or Framboise, with real fruit and little sugar! It might take time and cost you more than Mort Subite, but afterwards, you'll KNOW ! :o) (and Cantillon ? well, excellent, but I would not quite recommend them as a first contact...)
Laurent Mousson

The Kriek was a bit too fruity. Overpowering cherry-flavor prevents you from getting anything else out of the beer. It might be an OK way for Americans (like myself) who are really into fruit/specialty beers (Sam Adams Cherry Wheat, Pete's Strawberry Blonde) to get into Lambics.
Matt Azzara

This Beer is one of my favorites. I'm not a big Beer drinker but I love the taste. Most likely because it does not taste like Beer.
Nate

My preferred choice when in Belgian drinking establishments, a compliment to the makers when you consider the varieties available in Belgium & neighbouring central European countries.
Bradley Wren

Simply my all-time favorite beer. Cheers!
Andy Planckaert

Anyone's first Lambic is a bit of a shock. "They call this garbage, beer?!" would be a common and understandable response. Lambics are wild, unpredictable and very sharp. There is none of the familiar hop bite and aroma, and no cosy malt base up to which one can snuggle for comfort. The hops are used when they are long dead and have no flavour, the cereal base is mostly wheat, and the yeast is stuff that blows in from the garden. The whole thing is then brewed for ever, and left to hang around for a few months to see what happens. Brewers may then mix a few lambics of different ages together to produce something drinkable; or fruits are added earlier in the process to soften the taste. Doesn't sound promising does it? Well, this Mort Subite Kriek is a wonderful introduction to the genre - soft, fruity, smooth yet well balanced by a delicate and refreshing acidity, this is a brilliant summer garden drink, full of bouncing, jolly flavours. There is a time and a place for each beer - given the right time and place this is a little treasure. Serve well chilled.
Silk Tork

This beer is the best beer i have ever tasted in my life.
Graeme Collett

Like Cherry Champagne!
Scouse Mouse

It's a very good example of the typical belgian kriek lambic's, and beleive me.. being a Belgian, I've tasted the most of them. And yes, it's made with real cherries, not syrup! Maybe it's not the best of them, but it's an accessible one, if drunk well chilled. There are better ones for those who know and like this type of beers, but people who are not used to these beers might find the better ones a bit (or, like Cantillon, a whole lot) too sour.
Gerd Van den Broeck

This is by far the best of the kriek range with a slightly sour end-note which distinguishes it from the rest of the over-chemical tasting Kriek beers.
kem

beste ik ben een bierviltjeverzamelaar en zou graag mijn verzameling uitbreuden kan u mij helpen alvast bedankt jonas( luk.deboodt@pandora.be)
jonas de boodt

Like drinking sherbert mixed with cherryade. F*cking horrible.
Ally

375 ml corked bottle (champagne style). Enormous thick head, red colour, aroma is cherries (no surprise!) and red wine vinegar. Flavour is not nearly as sweet as Lindemans Kriek, quite dry really. Light bodied, but lots of cherries of course. Refreshing. Initially a little peppery bite. Moderately acidulous.
Sigmund

My wife liked it, but it's not my favorite beer. i trapped myself humming 'strange brew' by 'the cream' - but i like the pub - and i like the glass filled with grimbergen or something more 'beery'.
Harald Heger

You either love it or hate it, but I love it! Anybody knows where I can purchase this beer? I live in Florida.
besitos22

Truly revolting
Alan Varnam

The geuze is my special beer but is not easy to buy in adelaide ,the only place is at the belgium cafe
willy

Beautiful
Toby

I don't get all the negative comments here - the beer is as advertised; cherry and sweet.
If you keep an open mind, I think you will be pleased by it - make sure it's cold.
The Shaven Worm

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