Sweet, light 'kriek' based on wheat beer, something Huyghe has been doing since the nineties (Floris Griotte), branded exclusively for the Marks & Spencer supermarkets - I bought my sample at the one in Aberdeen (Union Square). Medium thick, frothy, pale lilac-pink, slowly opening head on a deep and bright ruby red beer with vermillion tinge. Aroma of candied cherries and Haribo 'Dubbele Kersen', grenadine or red lemonade, industrial cherry jam, bubblegum, perhaps a vague background note of white bread crumbs. Utterly sweet, sugary onset as expected, full of stick red cherry candy instead of real cherries, the infamous 'poepegatjes' flavour but still a tad less sticky than some others in this genre, with an underlying sourish touch feeling lemonade-like (but of course not natural at all). Lively carb, slick and thinnish body mostly 'filled' with sugar cloying to the teeth; a very flimsy wheaty soapiness is noticeable under all that red candy, but otherwise I cannot find anything even remotely beery in it. Sticky sweet red candy finish - nothing different from the flavour 'parcours' that preceded it. This is the old Floris Griotte (which I effectively once had more than two decades ago - never though I would ever need it again as a reference so much time later), but even further simplified, further sweetened to compete with that godawful 'rouge' hype and further removed from actual cherry flavours towards industrial red candy flavours. I suspect this has happened to the actual Griotte as well, now called Floris Kriek, in which the Florisgaarden witbier that served as a base was intentionally kept light and restrained in flavour so that this fruit beer range could be built on it. Given how Huyghe is close by from Ghent where I live, I may even go out to find a present-day Floris Kriek just for science... In any case finding a Belgian "zoete kriek" on the shelves of Marks & Spencer drew my attention so I could not resist buying it - my curiosity has been amply satisfied now, sadly not in a good way. Curiosity killed the cat, as the saying goes.