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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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.

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8.4
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

Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2019 at 20:03


8.3
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


4
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


5
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


8.2
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
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


No notes, not even a score!

Tried on 08 Oct 2019 at 01:54


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Gylden brun klar med offwhite skum. Lukter lett trevirke og stenfrukt. Søtsur smak. Stenfrukt og sukker. Kort.

Tried on 14 Sep 2019 at 16:14


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Aroma of cheap sweets and cherry. Sweet and just a bit sour taste with cherry juice. Certainly drinkable, but it has nothing to do with a real kriek.

Tried on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:08