Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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I know I shouldn’t like this, but I kind of do. It can’t compete with real lambics or other sours, but i like the mellow tones of cherries and almond, and the sweetness that comes with it.

UPDATED: JAN 7, 2011 Dark ruby red color, no head. Aroma is musty stale cork, rotten cherries and slight vinegar. Flavor is corked, slight cherry character. Body is watery thin.

Bottle. Pours a clear coppery red colour with a fluffy pinkish head that lasts a little while. Cherries are noticeable on the nose but there are also strong hints of malt, caramel and oak. Flavour is mildly tart and has notes of cherries, malt, sherbet, mineral and berries. Light bodied with high carbonation and a sweet, dry finish that lingers. Overall this is quite well balanced but isn’t particularly impressive; it seems like all the elements are muted in some way and it also verges on being too sweet. Still drinkable though.

A bit of an over-commercialised fruit-beer here in Belgium. One of the most well known in our country, but we have better Cherish-beers.

Hazy red coloured beer with small pinkish head and medium carbontion. A fruity cherry aroma with a sour touch. Full sparkling palate. Finish is fruity sweet, well balanced.

Draught. Poured a ruby red with thick head that quickly settled. There was funk in the aroma, but it tasted like fizzy cordial, with a very slight sourness creeping in as it warmed. Medium bodied, average carbonation with a short finish that wasn’t as sweet as expected, at least.

From a bottle. Belle-Vue Kriekenlambic Classique. Dark rose color with thin head. Cherry but not too overpowering. Light body with bit of sweetness. Not too exciting but good aroma and good to look at.

pours with no head and a dark ruby colour. deep cherry aroma. taste packs a punch with alot of tart/sour cherries. i’ve always enjoyed this beer once in a LONG while.

red coloured body with a little pink head a fruity ( cherry) aroma a fruity (cherry) sweet little soury taste with a fruity bitter finish

Bottle from 1995 at Kulminator, Antwerp. A lot of cherries in both aroma and flavor, sweetness was not at all too sweet. No acidity and no carbon dioxide. Quite interesting.