Belle-Vue Kriek

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

My cough is doing much better, thank you.

Ruby color, thin pinkish head. Very dry beer, with a light sourness, and very light fruity character; metallic bitterness in the end. Poor.

Clear red with pink head. Sweet and sour aroma with cherry and woody notes. Sweet flavor with cherry and almond notes. Ends sweet.

Plum-colored body with small light purple head. Aroma is cherry, slightly tart but more sweet, definite element of cough syrup. Taste is soft cherry, medium sweetness, medium tartness. Finishes slightly medicinal.

1. On Tap at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 31/05/2001 Cherry fruit aroma and flavour. Hoppy finish. 2. Bottle 05/07/2004 Amber red coloured with fruity cherry aroma and flavour. Smooth hop finish.

Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Dark ruby red color, almost no head. Sour kriek nose. Sour, sweet, mould and earthy flavor. Short kriek/cherry aftertaste, sour. (8/3/6/3/13 3.3)
Re-rate, bottled (BB 03/2005)
Cheery red with good creamy reddish head, lace. Earthy, mould aroma but same time fresh. Taste is extremely freshing with some earthy and mould tones. Cherry is underlying somewhere in a palate. Quite thin, quickly finish with some sourness. (6/4/7/4/14 3.5)
Corked bottle (BB 01/2007). Deep red, clear. Small red head. Nose is very metallic, mixed with cherry. Drier than I remembered, even sour, slightly metallic. Better than its fame. (6/4/7/4/14 3.5)

From a can from an all night shop in Antwerp shared in my hotel room with Mesandsim. Orangey red colour. Considerably worse than the Chapeau we had at the festival earlier. Really bad. Artificial fruit aroma, mouthfeel is awful. Finish has more bad fruit.

It’s a nice reddish kriek with ditto head. It has cherries in aroma and flavour. It’s not sticky sweet, but on the sweet side, and it has just enough acidity to balance the overall impression.