{"id":3353,"date":"2022-02-15T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:40:58","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-5-classic-cherry-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-5-classic-cherry-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: 5 Classic Cherry Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Oude-Kriek-Vieille-bottle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3354 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Oude-Kriek-Vieille-bottle-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oude Kriek Vieille bottle\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Oude-Kriek-Vieille-bottle-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Oude-Kriek-Vieille-bottle.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>Aside from the sample bottle of Oude Kriek Vieille crossing my desk this month, it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had a cherry beer. It got me flipping through my copy of LambicLand, and scrolling through old cherry-beer notes, and I wanted to revisit (and suggest, if you haven\u2019t tried these already) five classic cherry beers I\u2019m really looking forward to trying again. Let us know on Twitter via @RareBeerClub what classic cherry beers come to mind for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian River Supplication<\/strong> (to start off with a local) is generally my go-to on the Belgian-style side of their menu. Transcendent dark nectar featuring sour cherries and aged in Pinot Noir barrels, including a mixed ferment of Brett, Lacto, and Pedio. <strong>New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red <\/strong>always felt like the perfect Thanksgiving beer, brimming with over a pound of Door County Montmorency cherries per bottle (working out to like 600 grams\/L, if I didn\u2019t screw up the math). Vibrant cherry-pie character and effervescence; perfect for turkey. Shout out to Matt for the Midwest pickups. <strong>Cantillon\u2019s Lou Pepe Kriek<\/strong>, which was weirdly my first sour beer, features 300 grams per liter of Schaerbeek cherries with two-year-old lambic, and it packs an expressively acidic, cherry-laden punch (ditto for 3 Fonteinen\u2019s Schaarbeekse Kriek). <strong>Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme <\/strong>adds in raisins, candi sugar, and fermentation inside of a Bourbon barrel, resulting in a huge and hugely unique classic cherry beer. And can\u2019t help but mention <strong>Rodenbach Alexander<\/strong>: a blend of aged and fresh beers with macerated sour cherries added, first brewed in 1986 for what would have been Alexander Rodenbach\u2019s 200<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. A brilliant special release from Rodenbach that aged very gracefully (my first taste was from a bottle hitting its prime around 10 years), this thankfully got un-retired in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the sample bottle of Oude Kriek Vieille crossing my desk this month, it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had a cherry beer. 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