Belle-Vue Kriek

I5t puzzles me that some don't like this. It is a great beer very close to LIndmans but slightly cheeper. Ok it is a little more bitter and fizzy but hey its a great fruit beer and a fun way to get cool when your hot!Drink up (pity about the name though where was it brewed in a mental house!)

I like it! Perfect appearance, big head and ruby color. Nice aroma of cherries. Flavor real good, cherries but also some acid, tart?

Aug, 2003: Bottle - Belle-Vue. I sampled this alongside Mort Subite Kriek and Echte Kriek. Opening the very tight cork was stressful and difficult, but produced nothing more spectacular than a small sighing pop. The delightful foam settled into penicillin clumps above congealed blood - the whole thing appearing to be the sort of drink the devil would offer you when signing a Faustian pact.
The aroma was initially sharp and tingly - making the hairs at the back of my throat stand up - then it got gradually musty before the cherries came out, quite attractively wrapped in cobwebs and old newspapers. The aroma was more complex than the Mort, but less pleasant.
The mouthfeel was the most pleasant of the three - there was a gentle life to the beer that made it taste fresh from the surgery, but never intruded rudely with gas, farting or an alka-seltzer of any sort.
It had the most restrained flavour of the three in terms of sweetness and sourness, with an edge toward the sourness but mostly well balanced. The flavour was pleasantly cherry - not strong, but a definite cherry - finishing with a mild, barky, earthy bitterness; subtle - just present enough to notice.
A pleasant experience - more interesting and a better quality than I expected - but not really memorable or especially great. [3.5]
Feb, 2004:Bottle (La Becasse Kriek). Sweet, sweaty leather spanked cherries being chased across the schoolyard. A swirling cherry sweetness comes to a blank stop. Not great. [2.4]
Fec, 2005:Bottle - Belle-Vue. Appearance is lovely. Taste is enjoyable - good mix of sweet and sour. Nice cherries and assorted mouldy bits. Good mouthfeel. Fresh, cleansing and attractive. [3.1]

Much more sour than most Krieks I've had - almost a Flemish Red in flavor and mouthfeel, reminds me a bit of the Goudenband a bit actually. The flavor just never develops beyond the sour cherry, no body and soul - just thin.

Crisp cherry nose. Deep maroon colour with a decent white foamy head. Cherryade flavour with a delicate acidity and malty, oaky, ironish tones.

Bright and cheerful in the glass, but less so on the palate. Overwhelmingly sweet, with an unpleasant artificial tang.

Bottled. Chestnut/purple colour, brief purplish head and moderate condition. Artificial and oversweet cherry aromas, too sweet in the mouth with nasty cherry notes and an oversweet and sticky finish.

(on draught at Belgian Beer Café Belle Vue, Kiev, Ukraine) Cherry red. Light pink head. Cherry compot aroma, with notes of vanilla. Sourish flavor that overpowers the cherry feel. Some alchol presence.