Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

vintage 2001. mild vinegar aroma. pours a dark brown with amber highlights and a thin brown head. the taste of cherries cut the sour, but the fruit was not overpowering.

Red, very bright color. Very sweet and fruity smell and dito flavour, but all in the end a rather bad palate.

350 ml bottle. Burnt red, thin pink head, touch of floaties. Ripe cherry aroma. Cherry flavor. On the sweet side, but not too sweet. Slight sourness. Maybe a touch of Ludens going on here...

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

375ml green champagne style bottle w/ cork. Pours clear red, with a smooth pink tinged head. Large cherry aroma. Tart and sour, notes of salt (?) and wood.

Pink head, lighter red colour. Aroma is sour cherries, slight syrupy sweetness. Taste isn’t as bad, a hint of cherries and a hint of sour beer. But rather watered down and not as exciting as some of the elite krieks out there.
Earlier Rating: 10/23/2009 Total Score: 3.5
Aroma is a good mix of cherries and grains on the nose, not too sweet, not too dry. Looks very nice with a bright pink head that actually lingers, though it could be bigger. Has a very soft cherry feel with just a hint of grain in there, and a nice dry finish. A very good Kriek that’s not too hard to find.

Bottle: Pours a murky red colour with a light pink head. Pleasant stoney aroma, with good amounts of steel, dust, sour cherry skin, dirty leather and limestone gravel. . . Flavours are a bit absent, but slightly bitter: light sour cherries, bitter wine, not overly sweet, and not complex enough to be of much interest. Very metallic finish, not quite the great stuff that I love. . .

Ruby color, pink head. Lighter sweet cherry aroma, some woody elements. Syrupy sweet cherry flavor, was cloying and artificial. Not very good.