Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

It was a long time ago that I had a kriek. This tastes as I espected. Special. Its a beer that you have to learn. In some way I like it.

I understand that this is one of the ’industrial’ lambics, but it isn’t a bad tasting beer at all. If anyone knows of ’real’ lambics out there PM me :)

Bottle. Pours a deep sparkling ruby-pink with a large somewhat-diminishing foamy pinkish head. Decent sour cherry aroma, a little wine-like. Tart cherry flavour along with some oak and lights hop in the finish -- not cloying at all. Slightly more carbonated then I like. Medium bodied. This is pretty good and makes for a pleasant change of pace every now and then.

Bottle. Pours a deep reddish brown colour with not much head. Scents of cherry permeate the nose. Those flavors continue upon sipping but are not overly sweet and make a very nice fruit beer. The cherry flavor is strong, almost like a concentrated dried cherries. A light, fun and refreshing concoction. Thanks to Blankboy for the bottle.

Can. Deep red colour with a short fizzy head. Fresh aroma of cherries, some sourness. Aroma is dominated by cherries, nice sourness, good touch of sweetness. A really great lambiek.

dark red, some brown. huge pink head, odd nose fruity, with some woodyness. flavor is sweet but not too much so. kind of an odd mouthfeel, somewhat cloying, its ok

Sweet and Acididic notes of blak cherry. The palate is very sweet with a heavy dense flavor and mouthfeel. Textural. Not as sweet on the finish as the bitterness/acid blends well.

Deep Red color with a good head. Chrries and acid aroma, a little bit sweet. Palate of cherries, citric, and sweet.