Lapin à la Kriek (Rabbit in Cherry Beer)

This modern Belgian summer dish combines elements of the carbonade à la gueuze and of rabbit with prunes. Here the fruit is cherries and the liquid, instead of stock or broth, is the beer named kriek, which in Flemish means “sour cherry.” Traditionally, the beer is made by putting fresh cherries into lambic, the curiously tart Belgian beer fermented by …