Belle-Vue

Commercial Brewery in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev

Established in 1927

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Bergensesteenweg 144, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 1600, Belgium
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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.

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7/10 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...
Tried from Can on 30 May 2004 at 03:30

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Clear light red color, medium off-white head. Aroma of cherry and artificial sweets. Taste is sweet, lightly sour, fruity of cherries, bit watery.
Tried on 15 May 2004 at 17:03

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
A clear dark amber beer with a small beige disappearing head. The aroma is sweet with notes of prunes and wood - a quite simple aroma. The flavor is sour woody - as a thin gueze with a thin body.
Tried on 15 May 2004 at 04:25

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 5
Clear red color, medium pink head. Aroma of artificial cherry, soft, no marzipan (i like marzipan). Taste is sweet cherry, but not as ultrasweet as other ’kriek’-beers, more bitter. Sticky palate, very watery. A low alcohol fruit beer, quite interesting...
Tried on 09 May 2004 at 14:04

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Cloudy burgundy-brown coloured body with a thin pinkish head. Aroma of cherries, malt, tartness and some sweetness. Medium-bodied; Mild tart flavour with hardly any tartness and barely any malt quality. Aftertaste not too pleasing-actually mild compared to a normal lambic. Overall, I'd much rather have a liefman's or lindeman's, but this was available on tap...so I figured i'd try it. I had a pint of this on draught at a small pub in Toronto, Ontario on 09-April-2004.
Tried from Draft on 24 Apr 2004 at 16:15

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
[Vintage 1999 at Grote Dorst 2004] The aroma is sweet and sour with notes of oranges. The color is a hazy orange and it has a small head. The flavor sour with notes of the wild fermentation, oranges, and dry wood.
Tried on 14 Mar 2004 at 06:45

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
The aroma is slightly of cherries, slightly sour with hints of hops. The flavor is light, of cherries and red currant. This beer is like a very watery fruitsyrup served for children.
Tried on 08 Mar 2004 at 21:48

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle – Poured a medium reddish brew with a nice foamy head with good retention. Aroma of cheery is extremely dominant. Body is medium with good carbonation. Taste is very accentuated by cherry with some tannic on the background. The cherry taste might be a tad too juicy for my own taste. This beer lack a bit of the sourness usually founded in lambic but overall this is still a very good beer.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2004 at 08:27

6.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
An amber beer with a fine beige head. The aroma is very powerful and totally dominated by raspberries - no sourness or other hints of the wildfermentation. The flavor is sweet and totally dominated by raspberries - again no hints of the wild fermentation. A boring framboise if You like the wild fermented beers - but if You like sodapops this will be a winner.
Tried on 01 Feb 2004 at 05:27

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
The aroma is sweet and powerful of cherries. The color is red and it has an OK but disappearing head. The flavor is sweet with notes of cherries, and a dry woody finish. It is way too sweet for me.
Tried on 23 Jan 2004 at 19:24