Volfas Engelman's Kriek Cherry sits in the same Fassbrause-style bracket as the rest of the brand's non-alcoholic radler range — half non-alcoholic beer, half fruit juice and water — rather than being a traditional Belgian-style lambic Kriek. The name is borrowed from the Belgian cherry beer tradition, but the production method is quite different. What you're getting is a soft drink built on a beer base, not a spontaneously fermented sour. The cherry is prominent and sweet on the nose, ripe rather than sharp, with that particular cherry-syrup quality you associate with cocktail cherries more than fresh fruit. On the palate, the sweetness is the dominant note — the 10% cherry juice from concentrate and the sugar syrup work together to give this a decidedly soft drink character. The beer base (50% non-alcoholic beer) contributes a faint grain structure underneath that stops it from being purely a juice drink, and the lactic acid provides just enough tartness to keep the sweetness in check. Barely, but it's there. Community reviews describe it as 'extremely sweet' and it won a Gold Community Award on Untappd in 2024, which tells you the audience for it. Best served very cold. If you want something cherry and sweet without fussing over it, this does the job cleanly.