About
The Belle-Vue brewery is a story of more than 100 years of craftsmanship. Philémon Vanden Stock started as a so-called ''gueuze steker'' as early as 1913: he buys lambic from local brewers and uses it to create "Gueuze". In 1927 he took over the Belle-Vue café in Anderlecht, which was also the start of the Belle-Vue brand. When he took over the Vos Kina brewery in Molenbeek in 1943, he changed its name to the "Belle-Vue" brewery. He transforms from a gueuze steker into brewer. Under the leadership of son Constant Vanden Stock, the brewery grows strongly, partly through numerous acquisitions in the 50s, 60s and 70s. In 1975, the brewery moves into the old site of the Timmermans brewery in Zuun (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw). Belle-Vue has been part of AB InBev since 1981. Within AB InBev, the Belle-Vue brewery also functions as a pilot brewery and plays an important role in the Belgian network.
Part of the group
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bécasse Extra Kriek
Ruby color. Quite simple; fruity, sweet, a bit artificial. A soft drink.
Ruby color. Quite simple; fruity, sweet, a bit artificial. A soft drink.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2004
at 07:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Caged and corked Bottle Pours a clear redish copper color with just a wisp of a white head and the slightest hint of lacing. Aroma is of tart raspberries. Delicious actually. cant wait to taste it......should have quiit while I was ahead. Flavor is not so much raspberry but bitter, dry woody flavors as well. Tastes more like a raspbery "fizzie" was dropped into a beer that needed some help. Dissapointing. Carbonation is quite soft and the aftertaste is like cardboard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2004
at 22:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cloudy orange color, hardly any head. Aroma is full, horseblanket, quite tart, bit fruity. Nice balance of sweet and sour taste, tart but still very soft. Bit sticky palate. So, they actually are able to make a decent gueuze...
Tried
on 24 Oct 2004
at 08:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - Aroma of slightly sour apples not unlike a cider. Dark tan color. Sweet-tart flavor with slight hint of apples again but with a rather unpleasant metallic aftertaste (fades as beer warms). A nicely complex beer but a less tart gueuze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2004
at 11:58
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
The first Lambic I ever tried. Left me a bit dissapointed. Maybe it was the bottle, maybe it was that fine kriek smell that made me expect something special. Don’t know now. The colour was a nice deep red, but the head was big, and pink (which was in a way off-putting). The taste was sour, with the cherries barely showing from time to time, and it felt watered down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2004
at 04:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
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)
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)
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2004
at 17:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle Pours a cloudy deep red with a good frothy white head that never completely goes away. It and nice lacing are maintained well. Aroma is a ver nice sour cherry with earthy musty hints. Flavor however leaves some to be desired. That strong cherry flavor is missing and only a tease of what could be there. Bread, yeast, old wood barrels are a nice inclusion but dissapointing on the cherry. Feel is lively and refreshing. Not very dry or sweet. The after taste is more like sucking on a piece of the barell used to store the stuff. Not bad, just doesn’t compare to the Lindemans.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2004
at 23:39
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
A very nice dark cherry aroma with dark red color. Flavor of dark cherry but rather weak - did not match what I anticipated from the aroma. Shared with a group - the guys hated it and the girls liked it - there you go. Addendum: Had a bottle cellared for about 18 months, a totally different beer - aroma takes on the more traditional mustiness with cherry sweetness greatly fading. Flavor matches aroma - a musty, dry light cherry flavor. Aging made this much more like a traditional lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2004
at 13:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Red, good steady head, lots of lace. Rasberry nose, strong aroma. Sweet and a bit sour rasberry flavor. A bit sour aftertaste.
Red, good steady head, lots of lace. Rasberry nose, strong aroma. Sweet and a bit sour rasberry flavor. A bit sour aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2004
at 08:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A deep red beer with a small head. The aroma is very strong of cherries. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of cherries and only slightly sour. Not nearly sour enough.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2004
at 11:48