Launched in May, this is Lindemans' answer to that whole alcohol-free rage flooding the market today (and not only in beer) - and perhaps also a bit to the rouge hype. They claim it to be the first non-alcoholic kriek lambic in history, which strictly spoken seems to be through, although Belle-Vue did have a low alcohol kriek a couple of decades ago. Medium, densely moussey, pale but pure lilac-pink, closed, stable head over a crystal clear, deep and fiery ruby red robe with scarlet highlights and fine sparkling everywhere. Aroma of little more than red candy à la 'poepegatjes' or 'dropveters' but in a somewhat more refined and more specifically sweet cherry-like way than in the average rouge - as in heavily sugared cherry juice (which comes eerily close to what this actually is, had it not been for the added Stevia sweetener, artificial aromas, antioxidant and ascorbic acid - oh, and the malts and hops of course...). Cloyingly sweet onset, red candy all over but again strictly focusing on cherry flavour, with the added cherry aromas actually reinforcing the cherry juice; while sugar sticks to the enamel of the teeth, a thin, silky, almost watery - if it were not for the sugary syrupiness - 'body' passes by, filling the mouth with sweetened cherry juice. Old-fashioned grenadine, like the bottles I recall from childhood, springs to mind as well, but retronasally there is no doubt possible, as the aromas are very clearly and exclusively focused on sweet cherry. The word 'sweet' cannot be emphasized enough here, but a certain acidity is present as well, perhaps most obviously so in the end, albeit in a very clearly 'ascorbic' way - lemonade-like, in other words. Even sweeter, simpler and more 'immature' than the already very sweet regular Lindemans Kriek, thinner, more artificial and more sugar-syrupy too. Looks nice, though...