Morte Subite Kreik

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Price: £4.75

Description Traditional style Brussels lambics with local fruits added 4.5%abv. We need to go back in time for 80 years to explore the origin of this unusual name. About 1910 Mr. THEOPHILE VOSSEN ran an establishment called "LA COUR ROYALE". Amongst his many customers were a lot of employees working at the National Bank of Belgium. Those employees passed their time in the pub playing a dives game called "421". Before returning to the office , the employees played a quick last game and the one who lost was called the: "MORT SUBITE" or the sudden death. Very soon this name became well known and when THEOPHILE VOSSEN moved to this actual address in 1928 he decided to call his pub: "AT THE MORT SUBITE". The same name as this own beers. His sons and grandsons René and Jean-Pierre VOSSEN continued the tradition for more than 36 years. Today, the fourth generation of the VOSSEN family Olivier and Bernard, continuous to serve you these delicious Gueuze beers in the same establishment which also retains the original 1928 decor. 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 Truly excellent sweet beers, with sharp aftertastes, these beers are the way lambics should be presented, creamy and spicy with a relatively low alcohol content. 37.5cl