Belle-Vue Kriek

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

Pleasant aroma with some cherry. Reddish amber in color. Syrupy sour cherry flavour. Slightly dry. A fair beer but would much rather have had a Lindemans

My first Lambic - Fruit so it was interesting to say the least. Dark cherry red in colour. A long lasting, frothy, pinkish head. Smells like a soap shop. Medium body and low to medium carbonation. Not malty at all. Sweet cherry, cranberry and apple flavours with a very slight sourness. Not my normal taste in a beer but quite enjoyable.

Obious cherry flavour with some woodiness and sap (?), tart sourish aroma. The flavour is a bit too subdued for me.

(Bottle BB 30/01/07; ABV 5.1%) Cherry, sweet and wooden (cherry stones?) aroma. Ruby red colour and small, reddish, more or less fully diminishing head with a hint of lacing. Cherry, wooden, sweet (initial) and sour (finish) flavour. Fizzy carbonated, slightly dry and medium-bodied palate. 16/09/06

Kriek is not really beer, but this doesn’t taste all that bad, but lindemans is better.

A lambic-fruit excellent in the summer, not for me though, tasted like freshy. closer to a soft drink.Too sweet, gave the rest to the wife.

This was one of my ’crossing over’ beers that took me into the land of better stuff so I have some fond memories. Pale red colour with a strong cherry syrup nose. The flavour has just a hint of tartness suggesting the potential this beer oculd have if they didn’t make it so weak.

Well, I now know that I do not like Lambic Beers. This was horrible, but I can see how some people may like it, as it is different, and is refreshing. I Felt it to be fairly dull with little to no aftertaste. I am still contemplating how this is even considered a beer. It tastes so far from what I’m used to. I will not try this again, nor any Lambic beer. I’ve given this a mediocre rating to avoid bias, as I believe this is an interesting style of beer, however it is definately not for MOST beer drinkers.