Kriekenlambik
Belle-Vue in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
6.71
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Kraddel (15844) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
At dag van de geuze 2023. pours clear, dark ruby red. Scent is funky, intense boiled cherry, overripe and funky. Bit acetic, nailpolish. Taste is intense, burning acidity ( acetic, mostly) heavy and thick, overripe boiled cherry. Less off-putting than their straight lambic, but still far from great.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
The basis for the commercial Belle-Vue fruit beers, at least that is what they claim (I have a spontaneous distrust towards claims made by large industrial breweries). The pinkishly orange colour seems to give away the fact that colorants are added later in the process to arrive at Belle-Vue Kriek; aroma and taste hardly reveal any krieks at all. Fruity lambic yeastiness is present abudantly though, as well as a soft lactic acidity; gentle basic character (’malse lambiek’). Contrary to the other kriekenlambics I’ve had, and I’ve had them from every Belgian lambic brewery, this one seems to contain only a very limited percentage of sour cherries, if any at all. It was nevertheless an interesting experience gaining access to the basic lambic of the most industrial brewery of them all.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Light, deep cherry colour. Phenols and light acetic woody character on the nose. Sweetish palate for style but with a late, sharp twang. HInts of citrus and spice add nuance.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Almost clear deep red with no head. Aroma of cherry, wood and vinegar. Rather acidic flavour, with cherries and wood.
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap @ WSF. Pours clear dark pink with no head. Mose is sweet cherries. Tart and fresh taste with a bit of almond. Ends dry , sour and refreshing.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught @ 17th Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 2008.Clear medium red color with a virtually none appearance, virtually none lancing head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy cherry sourness, cask wood, oak. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy acidic - sour with a long duration, and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. (240508)
KimLundJohansen (10465) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ WSF 2008. Clear red with no head. Sour aroma with cherry and barnyard notes. Flavor likewise with intense sour finish.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught. Pinkish red colour, not much head. Aroma is cherries and sourness. Flavour is the same along with some strawberries and some interesting bitterness. Feels artificial, and like meandsim said more strawberry than cherries...
diabel (1874) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Draught No head, murky pinky body, doesn’t look like a kriekenlambiek, more like kriekenlambiek mixtured with an ordinary lambic. Nose of cask wood and flowers. Lightly sweet, moderately acidic initial flavour. Moderately acidic finish. As Joris does, I wonder how they manage to make a (red) Kriek-Lambic out of this, but I forgot they still have to add the sirup or something like that in the end.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Belle-Vue 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(draught of course) Pink-peach colour, fully hazy; just a rim of bubbles. No fruit in the nose whatsoever. Maybe a touch of rhubarb - and some lemon/wood. This tastes nice. Of peaches, maybe. Of soft lactic acid, and of a mild lambic. Just NOTHING of cherries. What’s this supposed to be? Medium bodied, more for a lambic, but not with the filling of fruit. I cannot follow. I’ve had BV kriekenlambic that just exploded with sour cherries. This - this is some educated (exception made for the funkiness, then)ladiesdrink. A good one, but all the same...