Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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. . .

Two words for this beer Sweet & Sour. Pours a deep red color with a nice pink looking head. Sweet smelling aroma. The taste is sweet/sour cherries. A must try, I've never tasted anything like it!

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.

Bouteille verte de 375 ml, avec bouchon de liège, achetée à la LCBO d’Ottawa (ONT). Arôme: Odeur de cerises et de sucré. Apparence: La couleur est rouge avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux rosâtre avec une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de cerises sûrettes. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Forte effervescence en bouche. Présence d’amertume en arrière goût. (Rating #522)

Tap @ Popeye’s: Ruby red, light pink head, nose of full fruit and light tartness. Some chewy vanilla and light sweet cherry notes in the tail. Sweet, lacking the choice tart balance that are key in the great lambics.

Bottled in La Fleur en Papier Dore bar, Brussels. This is an unashamedly commercial rendition of the style. I'm not sure how much real lambic there is in this, but is certainly does taste of cherry in a rather medicinal cough-mixture type way. The problem from my perspective is that it is really rather unacceptably sweetened up. This is somewhat redeemed by a more authentic sharp tang at the finish. An acceptable, but uninspiring Kriek. September 2003.

Bottle: Burgundy red colour with a large cherry head with a nice lacing. Aroma strong on cherry and red fruits, taste is a bit boring, sweet, cherries, slight maltiness. Tastes like cough medicine.

Pours a pinkish colour, with a pinkish head. The aroma is quite plain: cherries. In the flavour, the cherries taste fake, and it just isn't sour enough for me. Nonetheless, it's kinda tasty. Bottle.