Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Sweet and acidic aroma. Deep red colour, stable pink head. Thickish mouthfeel. The flavour is quite sweet and slightly acidic, with some fruit notes. Refreshing.

Bottle. Nice pink head with good duration. Color is clear light ruby. Good aroma of cherries. Taste is refreshing and vinous. Not as sour as some of the other lambics around, but a bit more watery.

Cloudy brown body, zero head. Great sour aroma, some light cherry is evident, some yeast as well. Very interesting taste, sour that diminishes quickly to more of a malty taste. Light fruit accents are evident with a green grass ending.

Bottle - Dark read with a thick foamy pink head. Aroma is sweet cherry. The taste is sweet and sour cherry, but not much around this. This one is not for me but it is OK for the style.

375ml Bottle w/ cork, 5.1% a/v Pours a dark ruby colour, looks exactly like cranberry juice, with a foamy pink head. The smell is of cherry, raspberry and some boozy notes. The taste is incredibly cherryish. Like freakin kool aid! Its a very refreshing drink, very summer appropriate!

Thanks OldStyleCubFan for sharing. Poured out of a can (!). Color is a translucent pink with a one finger frothy pink head. The nose is sweet, shows cherry and candy, some almond and cherry pit. The flavor is more sweet than I would expect, cherry and cherry skins, almond character from the pits comes through as well. Lacks the tartness I wants.

Bottled. Pours a reddish amber with a light pink head. Pink lace! Aroma is sweet with cherries and spice. Light body and medium carbonation. The starts a little sweet and goes a little sour with cherries, wood and spice. Dry finsh.

Shared at the Carolina Crew tasting by OldStyleCubFan - thanks, Todd! Nice to have something aluminum aged for once. Barrels are for suckas. Pretty handsome pour, a nice, well carbonated kriek. But lozenge lozenge lozenge, and a thinnish body to boot.