Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Cherries, almond, wood in aroma and taste. Very sweet and just a faint sourness in the finish. Like drinking cherry lemonade. Boring

Can. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Red colour. Heavy nice cherry and marcipan aroma. Light sweet powerfull cherrie flavor. Slightly sour. Average light sour finish. Oily palate.

Bottled from Presporska pivoteka. Red color with pink small head. Aroma, cherry, little bit artificial. Taste, again cherry, like lemonade. Nothing special.

bottle@bar: artificial red with white head, mass production Kriek, very sweet tasting of cherry juice with a hint of syrup, no hops, malt, yeast or tart/funk, sweet cherry juice/syrup overall, no sour or acidity

Nothing enjoyable about this beer. Not a big fan of cherries, I must add in all honesty.

Sample at Tasting Panel #1. Small format bottle. Pours a reddish brown colour with a large cherry head with nice lacing. Aroma strong on cherry and red fruits. Flavour is a little timid, sweet, cherries, slight maltiness. This was an aged bottle that was probably better suited to being consumed while fresh.

375mL bottle, pours reddish pink. Aroma of sweet fruits, slight tartness which feels more subdued now that it was upon bottling (several years ago?). Flavour of sweet strawberry and cherry, with almost no sourness and a cloying sweetness. Too much sweetness here.

250ml bottle (Smatch, Bruges)
3 Dirty muddy aroma
2 clear bold red, light pink head
3 Holy fuck, this is messed up. Dirty light grains, almost maizy.
2 Sweet slick palate, soft carbonation. Finish mercifully short
4 Do not want. InBev doing what they do best - fucking up classic styles.