Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bright red appearance, big foamy head. Slightly tart, medicinal cherry aroma. Slightly tart beginning, bits of cherry here and there and a light bitter finish. Not bad, not overly assertive though.

Appealing deep wine/red colour w/ brownish hue & big pinkish head. Sourish, syrupy cherry aroma. Medium body, somewhat sticky. A decent mix of sweet (dark cherry), tart & sour flavours. Perhaps a little too earthy & oaky.

0.375 l bottle. Pours dark clear red body with bigger medium head. Aroma of black cherry and some hops. Bit vinegar, too. Flavor still with the black cherry, sourish but not too much lambic present, although more "looking like beer" than other fruit lambic I’ve recently tried. High carbonation on the palate of course. Finish a bit sour. Not bad generally.

Sweet nose of cherries, and some light acidity. Dark red body, medium off-white head. The cherry flavor is quite artificial, some light sourness.

Bubbly and sweet with a sherbert taste. Farily disappointing.

deep ruby red with lacy pink head. powdery candy-ish aroma. slightly tart cherry flavours. not bad

Pours a big fluffy head. Medium brown with dark red tinges. Very aromatic nose of confectionary cherry notes - true to form. Poor flavour profile - sour sourness and citrus from the fruit is let down by a skunky, slightly stale feel. No traditoinal beer flavours to speak of. My first Lambic so I don’t really know what I’m doing. Maybe not m bag but I’m sure this is a bad bottle.

[Shared with svoger in Præstø, 2005.] After 100 km on bike this was my saving. Although it is "fabriksfremstillet og standset ud i plast" it was ok in the heat. I don’t like the marcipan flavor and it could be more oude in its character!