Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Copper-red hue, with a pink foamy head. Sweet cherries even shade of raspberries with shy oaky note lambic in the aromas, follow a medium-bodied of sweet cheery note in the palate with a mild tartness and a shy acidity on the finish. A mild kriek lambic for the none-initiated

375ml bottle with cork and cage. Could hardly get a head on this one at all which marks down the appearance a little in this case. Very interesting hazy red garnet colour with a slight amber tint. Sour fruity cherry aroma with a little oak in the background. Taste starts with cherry laden fruitiness, then becomes sour with a slight tannin finish. Even though there was no head in my case, the carbonation felt about right and the feel was quite smooth. Looking forward to trying more lambics, I don’t mind this style.

33 cl can, bought in shop in Oostende. Abv is 5,1%. Reddish brown color, big white/off-white head. Aroma is berries and some sourness. Flavor is berries with nice mild sourness, oak and fine sweetness.

First lambic beer at a small bar in Bruges. Bottle. Poured ruby red. Strong cherry odour. Somewhat sweet. Fell in love with this beer style after this first bottle, relected in rating.

Bottle. Reddish colour, with a dense white reddish head. Aroma is cherries, krieken, and raspberries. Sour taste, slightly bitter, fizzling in the mouth. Fruity, with a slightly bitter and sourish finish. Nice to drink, thirstquenching.

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!

Red color. Pretty thick white head which lasts quite a while. Smell sweet and a little sour. Taste is mainly sweet, little hints of red fruit, little sourness. Not the worst kriek I’ve ever had.

Quite a nice beer for the hot summer days, I like the slight sourness of the naturally yeasted beer, and the sour cherry gives it an extra zing. For a comercial Kriek it is quite good and as long as you don’t have a beer specialty shop. This beer will do quite nicely and keep you nicely amused without any nasty aftertaste.