Belle-Vue Kriek Primeur

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle, 25 cl. edition 2007. Dark red color, with an light pink head. Aroma cherry sweet. Thin to medium body. Taste is syrupy, much sweet.

Please note: this review is based on a bottle that has been properly stored for 16 years (vintage 1995) so it might not taste the same as a new one. Clear body, spongy pink/grey head. Amazing aroma, dried plums, cherry. After tasting... this beer makes you happy! Taste like Polish Christmas plum soup. Super!

When fresh even sweeter than the normal Belle-Vue kriek. Clear cherry red colour, pinkish white head. Loads of cherry juice, not much lambic character. Very sweet finish. Haven’t seen it around anymore lately, has it been retired? (from 25cL bottle)

Bottle 25cl. [ Vintage 1994 ].
Clear dark red color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is oxidid, cherry. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090226]

Clear red with medium pink head. Sweet aroma with cherry and marzipan notes. Sweet flavour with artificial cherry and marzipan notes. Finished very sweet. I would love to try an authentic kreik from Belle-Vue at one point. Put some cherries in the Selection Lambic please.

250ml Bottle- 2007 Vintage. Dark red in colour with a lively pink head. Fruity, sweet cherry aroma with a hint of tartness. Sugary sweet cherry taste which is very refreshing but not much of a lambic element to it. Very refreshing on a hot day like today.

(Bottled, 2007 edition) Clear, dark blood-red with a pink, medium and lacy head. Reasonably natural, but very sugary-sweet cherry aroma. Very sweet and sugary flavor with some cherry underneath, and definitely not a trace of any lambic that’s ever been a base of this one. It doesn’t taste bad, if you don’t mind the excess sweetness, but I do. Medium-bodied, thick and sugary palate with quite low carbonation. It’s sad - considering the body, this could be something like De Cam Kriekenlambic - too bad, that it has been achieved using sugar and not cherries.

2007 edition. Rubin red coloured, some light carbonation with an average pink head. Fruity, cherry sweet aroma. Full fruity palate. Finish is sweet with a light bitter, peppery and wooden touch. At the end a little sticky. Not to bad.

94 bottle@Kulminator. Almond cherry aroma. Burgundy colour. Very dusty flavor, light fruit, nut and minerals. Light body - fatish mouthfeel. Earthy cherry retronasal.

Bottle- Vintage 1994@Kulminator. Still sweet after all those years, but with some hints of cherry sourness, but not much.Slightly old mouthfeel/flavour, but hey it was over 10 years old.