{"id":2574,"date":"2015-01-10T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2015-01-10T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:36:31","slug":"review-oud-beersel-bzart-kriekenlambiek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/10\/review-oud-beersel-bzart-kriekenlambiek\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Review: Oud Beersel Bzart Kriekenlambiek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Oud Beersel Bzart Kriekenlambiek' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/16220777111\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7553\/16220777111_eeec94f727_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Oud Beersel Bzart Kriekenlambiek\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div title=\"3.5 out of 5.0\"><strong>3.5<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0AROMA\u00a0<\/small><big>7\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a0<\/small><big>5\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0TASTE\u00a0<\/small><big>6\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0PALATE\u00a0<\/small><big>4\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0OVERALL\u00a0<\/small><big>13\/20<\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Acquired this bottle at least a year ago in Belgium, most likely @ HopDuvel Gent. Enjoyed in a Gueuze glass @ 40 Degrees F split 2 ways.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8211; Similar to other Bzart bottles, this explodes and starts to gush if you weren\u2019t careful and that\u2019s after carefully storing this undisturbed on its side for over a year. It\u2019s a beautiful blood red, 2 finger head stays around and is pink hued.<\/p>\n<p>S &#8211; The nose is similar to the Oude Kriek Bzart and standard Oud Beersel Oude Kriek. Sweet cherry, oak, cherry pie, other interesting but more dessert like nose.<\/p>\n<p>T &#8211; Taste is also very sweet, not quite &#8220;kriek max&#8221; but it\u2019s more dessert like, lots of cherry pie, sour at the start and end with the middle being dominated by a sweet over carbonated explosion of juice<\/p>\n<p>M &#8211; Champagne like mouthfeel, very effervescent and fills the mouth with a single swish<\/p>\n<p>O &#8211; This is nice but again, for the price maybe not so much. Some people will love this and open it in place of Champagne on a special occasion and that seems about right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Oud Beersel Bzart Kriekenlambiek' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/16221840452\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7468\/16221840452_7c4d8619be_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Oud Beersel Bzart Kriekenlambiek\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3.5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a07\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a06\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a013\/20 Acquired this bottle at least a year ago in Belgium, most likely @ HopDuvel Gent. Enjoyed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:26:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"5eb5e32b-e265-4142-9be8-6a3cb8905365","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:26:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXrXjK-JlQUKb6Go8uJBTZQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Fw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7777,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/reviews-oud-beersel-bzart-oude-kriek\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Reviews: Oud Beersel Bzart Oude Kriek","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is not a Gueuze but I\u2019m going to just start opening unrated Lambic this week including all of the unrated Bzart beers I\u2019ve acquired. 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