Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Can, at home. Dark red with red head, fully diminishing. Aroma is sweet and powerful of cherries. Flavor sweet with notes of cherries, and a dry woody finish. Light, watery body, lively carbonated. Good kriek.

Orangey red, thin white head. Nose held notes of cherry (more like red sweedish fish), light oak, and hints of citrus. Sweet cherry and light oak flavor dominates with no sourness I had hoped for. Light bodied, soft carbonation, fruity finish. Not true to form, but ok I suppose. Thanks for sharing Eyedrinkale...

Yeah, it doesn’t look like a beer, but taking the style into consideration, I have rated it accordingly. The rich cherry body with a pink cream head is an appealing change of pace. The aroma smells deliciously full bodied of cherries with a sour vinegar note discernable at times. Unfortunately, the taste becomes more disagreeable as the experience continues. Cherry soda/cherry sparkling flavors give way to a twinge of saltiness to an unpleasant salty cherry that becomes sickening. Far too unbalanced.

The Butterfly, Brussels, Belgium. Served in small Belle Vue Kriek snifter. Ruby red in color with a thin off white head. Light cherry flavor and not too sweet. Very good.

This is one of the beers that changed my life, and got things started. I tried it from a bottle in the Hogshead, Birmingham, and couldn't believe that something so fruity and exciting could actually be a beer. As an Interbrew product it now seems like this is becoming the Coca Cola of fruit beers, and I'm not sure it is the most complex, or subtle kriek in the world. But by crikey, it's still a top class piece of work, which brings back happy memories, and experiences which I am keen to repeat whenever possible! The cherry flavour is rich, without being over powering, and it is sweet without being sickly. Great colour too.

25cl bottle. pours reddish, light pink head. aroma light cherries, sugary, and a litle on the sour side. taste, cherry, was getting a little extra tartness compared to the extra version, still the beer remained on teh sweet side. Easy to drink, not the best kriek out there.

Bottle in Schiermonnikoog. Not my thing, it has very strong cranberry flavor and is very punchy. I felt it a bit sour with considerable aftertase. Can see why it’s so popular though. Good for some!

Bottle from Tesco, Loudwater, Bucks.. 375ml. I see Belle-Vue fruit beers being in the middle of the scale, on one hand you have the super sweet almost alcopops of Jacobins and Timmermans, then you have the complex sour ones from Cantillon, Belle Vue seem to hold the middle ground with the likes of Mort Subite. This is not over sweet, but is not exactly beer. With a little more sugar this could qualify as an alcopop but in this state its just an average kriek. Ok.