Belle-Vue
Commercial Brewery
in
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Established in 1927
Contact
Bergensesteenweg 144, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 1600, Belgium
Subsidiaries
Description
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.
3/10
from earlier years
Tried
on 16 May 2020
at 22:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On keg Perfect Draft exclusive - Clear gold, low bubble, decent top. Sweet hoppy taste and aroma, feels stronger than the ABV, short aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Apr 2020
at 19:18
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Medium white head, fast gone despite lively & finely carbonated clear golden beer. Nice fresh horseblanket aroma, lemon, fresh green leaves, almost floral, hints at leather, saddle soap, manured fields after a few showers and days. Fresh, leathery & lemony flavours. Quite complex (certainly compared to the Kriek Complexity loses out a bit, gradually, without becoming dull however. Sharp acidity, lean body, rather well-carbonated. Again, excellent, no discussion. Bashing this beer, just because it is from ABInbev, is utter intellectual dishonesty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2020
at 18:39
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2019
at 20:03
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pour from bottle @ Mikkeller Bar Aarhus thanks to Rasmus40. 1999 vintage. Cork was all purple. Mhm! Pours a light hazy golden with a small fizzy white head. Aroma is veryyy funky, barnyard, leathery, musky, vinous funk, grapey, green apples and woody notes. Taste is tart fruity, dry, sour, barnyard, leathery, green grapes. Nice! Very complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours clear reddish with a small bubbly white head. Aromas of marzipan, cherry candy, sugar. Taste has cherry candy, tart pits, vinegary, sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Pours clear reddish with a small white head. Aromas of candy cherries, marzipan, subtle vinegary. Taste is just cherry candy. Marzipan. Sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vintage 2018. Many thanks for this Lambic to Eric De Geyter. Alez niesamowicie wytrawny i kwasny lambic. A to tylko roczny, mlody, nawet nie jest to z malego browaru jak Cantillon czy 3F ale daje rade. Jestem zadowolony z prezentowanej jakosci. Nalane do kieliszka kriek lindemansa, z rozowa srednia piana, nie trwala, metniste, bordowo rozowe, Aromat wisni rozgniecionych pestek, wytrawna i kwasowa owocowosc wisniowa dominuje, przyznam szczerze ze w skladzie kolendra? i nic jej nie czuc wisni bylo za duzo, az 130g na litr. W smaku jest pewna cierpkosc jeszcze dzikiej rozy, tak mi sie kojarzylo.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2019
at 18:50
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is lemony, tart, sweaty. Taste is sharp, dry, lemonsour. Arteficial. Not a geuze, what a joke.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2019
at 12:55