Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

On tap. Strong dark red colour with a soft blanket of foam that laces the glass. Trat bitter aroma is surprisingly pleasant, as is the flavour. Strong lingering cherry aftertaste.

On the bottle you can read that this is the classic. No it is not. This beer is so sweet like lemonade. The real Kriek is acid and with lots of fruitness in the pallet, not sweet at all. Women like this beer a lot because it is very sweet and good to drink on a terrace in the summer.

Draught sample, very little head, served a bit too warm, clear red colour, aroma of cherries, pits and a whiff of spice, sweet cherry fruitiness and a very light tartness and something coarse, maybee from the pits, sweet fruity candy aftertaste, Another industrial artificial tasting fruit lambic.

sweet kriek aroma,red, clear, light red foam, light sweetness, light body, creamy, soft carbonation, light sour kriek finish.

First lambic beer at a small bar in Bruges. Bottle. Poured ruby red. Strong cherry odour. Somewhat sweet. Fell in love with this beer style after this first bottle, relected in rating.

On keg in Riga. Pours a red colour with a fair pink head. Aroma of cherry and a little lemon. Similar flavours with a lemon sherbert quality which lingers nicely. Quite one dimensional and a little sweet. I prefer sour krieks.

Bright scarlet in colour under a pinky-white head. This isn’t just red, it’s RED! Completely overwhelming aroma of unripe cherries with a little bit of an armpit britannomyces undernote. Sour cherry flavours with a cherry brandy element. Not a favourite if I’m honest and I was expecting much more.

750 ml bottle best by 1989 date poured a clear reddish amber with a lingering ring of ivory foam. Aromas of cherry candy, bread and light barnyard. Palate was light bodied and smooth with a syrupy finish. Flavors of cherry candy, bread and light barnyard with a smooth lingering sweet cherry finish.