Belle-Vue Kriek LA

Brewed by Belle-Vue (InBev)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle 25cl.
Clear medium red color with a large, frothy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, light red head. Aroma is light to moderate cherry, cherry syrup. Flavor is light to moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20081129]

The aroma is slightly of cherries, slightly sour with hints of hops. The flavor is light, of cherries and red currant. This beer is like a very watery fruitsyrup served for children.

(Bottle 25 cl) Low alcohols are most often a lager variety, so this low alcohol fruit beer is rather unusual. By appearance this looks very much like a real Kriek, deep red with a small, discreet head. Cherry flavours are very evident with a small, metallic edge. Not much body and no real Lambic tartness. This feels pretty much like a nice soda pop. Actually a pleasant surprise. 210999

25 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep red with a diminished pink head. Sweet cherry fruity aroma, light almondish aroma. Dry and cherry flavoured. Quite subdued on the sweetness. Not really almondish either. Dense but not artificial. Lasting dry cherry finish.

Bottled. Red colour, huge white foamy head, lacing. Cherry, malt and cookies in aroma. Cherry flavour with artificial notes. The lack of alcohol might be a reason to a "thin" flavour.

UPDATED: JAN 8, 2007 Bottled. Deep red, brief head. Sweet cherry aroma. Cherry lemonade without even a hint of beer underneath. I must admit though that this is a pretty good cherry lemonade. Maybe useful as an ice-cream topping?

Bottle. Slightly sickening cherry aroma. Deep red colour, very big, quite stable pink head. The flavour is rather sweet with a lot of cherry, especially in the aftertaste. It also seems a bit salty, like an isotonic sport drink. The low ABV does not seem to be a problem here.

Beautiful ruby color; generous creamy pinkish head. The smell is between the syrupy fruit beer and a cheap lager. The very beginning in the mouth is regular, with some cherry syrup, but it becomes quickly weak, and extremely short. Not disgunting, but useless.

Clear red with a medium off white head. Very sweet aroma with plenty of artificial cherries, almonds and candy. Very sweet flavour with artificial cherries and almonds.

(25cl bottle, BB 23/04/10) Pours a clear red body with a spare pinkish off-white head. Aroma of dust, cherry cough syrup, and almonds. Flavor of corn syrup, hard cherry flavored candy, and concentrated Gatorade.