Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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.

Optisch ist das Belle-Vue Kriek sehr schön anzusehen: burgunderrote Farbe und eine feste Schaumkrone. Die Blume ist kräftig und intensiv süß-kirschig. Auch geschmacklich kann dieses Kriek überzeugen. Es perlt leicht über die Zunge und gibt sich nach einigen Schlucken auch längst nicht mehr so süß. Voller Körper und eine typische Lambic-Säure bestimmen das Finish. Ich schließe mit einer ebay-Bewertung: Gerne wieder!

37.5cl bottle: This one pours a clear ruby color. Pouring it fast does give it a bit of a red-tinged head. The head dies down quickly, even there was a bit of carbonation. Some lacing down the glass. The aroma has both sweet and sour notes of cherries. The taste is a bit tart, but a hair lighter: the cherries don’t overpower the taste. A nice Kriek.
Earlier Rating: 6/2/2002 Total Score: 3.9
A very unique style. Lambics are definitely an acquired taste. Very cherry, but not overpowering. Quite good.

Pours red with small diminishing head. Aroma is of sweet and acidic cherries. Flavour is cherry, sour though, with a little bitterness. Sweet, bitter finish, wouldn’t drink too many of these.

Pours a deep ruby red with a small fizzy white head. Aroma is of sour cherries, light malts and other fruit. Unfortunatly the aroma is very muted. Flavor is cherry, kinda sour, yeast, and rather sweet. Body is a bit too carbonated. Not impressed.

Bottle. Dark red/brown colour. Lasting pinkish head. Cherry aroma. A bit metallic. Notes of malt. Cherry flavour. A bit sour. Slightly bitter finish. Palate feels slightly greasy.

Tasted out of bottle in a Lambic Goblet. Popping the cork revealed a cherry, sweet aroma, which developed when poured. In the glass it was most impressive, with a brown, burgundy-red body and an off-pink head that lasted to the bottom. Flavour was of an immature berry wine mixed with tonic water, not discrediting, but undemanding. Cherries dominated with little lactic Lambic flavours or sour balances. A good brew, for young connisseurs.

Not a lover of this type of beer. Acidic taste of cheeries, quite metallic. Cherry red in appearance with a frothy dirty pink head. Cheery cola flavour, a bit rich.