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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Boon Oude Kriek if you want funky depth and time in the glass,
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red if you want immediate fruit brightness.
The Boon is a lambic—wild yeast, oak-aged, genuinely sour—while New Glarus is a cleaner fruit beer with more straightforward cherry character. Both work with food, but they're pulling from completely different traditions.
At a glance
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Structurally near-identical
Structurally these two are the same beer. The difference is in the aromatics. Boon Oude Kriek runs a touch more bitter in bitterness (Δ 3). Boon Oude Kriek brings a distinct funky note that New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red doesn't.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 2
Sweetness
Δ 2
Situations
In words
Boon Oude Kriek
The Boon hits you with this immediate tart snap, then reveals itself slowly—there's a real funkiness underneath, almost farmyard, with dried cherry and a woody dryness that keeps building. It's not sweet; it's genuinely challenging at first sip, but that's the point. Twenty minutes in the glass, it opens up into something more complex and less aggressive.
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red
New Glarus comes in cleaner and more inviting—bright red cherry upfront, almost jammy, with a soft sourness that's more approachable than intimidating. It's got a lighter body that feels refreshing rather than contemplative. The cherry is the star here, not a supporting player, and there's no funkiness trying to complicate things.
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Δ 3
Texture
Δ 1
Only Boon Oude Kriek
Shared character
Only New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red