Liefmans GLÜHKRIEK 75 cl / 6 % Belgium

A wintry treat from Belgium! A Kriek from the world famous Liefmans brewery, refined with Christmas spices.

Liefman's brewmaster reports:
"When we started successfully selling our St. Louis Kriek (Kriek = Flemish word for sour cherry) at events in the early nineties, we came up with the idea of offering a warm cherry beer as a "beery" alternative to mulled wine at Christmas markets during the winter season. Sweetened a little with honey, this mulled beer went down really well with our customers. Over the years, we constantly tinkered with improving the recipe of our mulled beer. After ten winters, we came to the conclusion that our creation was ready for the barrel."

Today, mulled beer is a household name at many Christmas markets, and several breweries, both domestic and foreign, already offer a mulled beer. Almost all of them, however, are not brewed on the basis of Belgian kriek. So mulled beer is not always mulled beer.