Sprecher Mbege Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Bottle; poured a very slighlty hazy amber; not much head. Aroma of grain, banana, and funk/ass. Flavor had a strong band aid essence. Some banana and malty sweetness. Pretty gross; didn’t finish most of it. Aftertaste like apple juice.

1pint. pours hazy copper with small white head around the rim. nose is awful, wheat germ, anti-septic, artifical bananas, flavor of no! wheat artifical banana juice. oh its bad. do i have to take another sip? oh man this is horrible. i wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. this really should be used as an interrogation tactic. if someone made me drink a few ounces of this i would spill everything i had.

on draft at Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach, CA The bartender gave several folks samples. Most of us felt like this was a banana cider. The only person who liked a lot was a lady that was usually a chardonnay drinker, not a beer drinker. For me, it was OK at best

Pour is hazd amber with a thin off white head...smell is lightly sweet with hints of banana...taste is shocking sweet with some tartness toward the finish...tons of banana and copper...blech

Thanks to Skyview for sharing! Very nice banana nose. Hazy brown body. Tastes like a wheat beer with banana #5 flavoring added. Slightly chemical tinge to it.

Sprecher Mbege Ale, Fire-brewed, African-style. Label adorned with colorful parrots and bananas. Ale brewed with banana extract. 16 ounce bottle, 5.2% abv. Thoroughly clouded, and peach-y colored, with a slim, but sure, white layer of foam. Flowery aroma, then sweet, then the banana takes over...slice of lemon on the side, maybe, but banana is all over this, and it’s an even, balanced, appealing aromatic, at that. In the taste, banana, banana, banana....and little else. . Light bodied, slightly malty, with a light, faintly fruity finish. No hops here, but that would be correct to style, I’d think. Maybe this brings me closer to tasting a true African banana beer, but I’d still like to think I can make that trip to Mt. Kilimanjaro and try some of the real stuff. Worth the $2 I paid for the bottle. Yeah, I thnk so, it’s unique enough, the novelty is worth it just to try and say you did. Share one or two with friends while listening to Yvonne Chaka Chaka’s song "Umqombothi (African Beer)", available on iTunes, still the only song I know of sung from the perspective of a brewer.

The grail of all beers was found. This is the alcove offered to us by Sprecher. Pours golden hazy, no head. Aroma of industrial glue, carton. Taste, wood, smoke, tasted like old apple with some soap, and mouthwash. It just doesn’t have anything appealing. While I appreciate the effort to try an African recipe, this beverage is just awful to drink.

16 oz. bottle. Pours a cloudy copper with a creamy, slightly yellow-white head. Lots of small carbonation bubbles feed the head for several minutes. The aroma is definitely bananas, but it actually smells like real bananas and not like some fake fruit candy. Some sugar and lemons also in the aroma. The bananas are in the flavor too, but the flavor isn’t as genuine as the aroma. I couldn’t decide if I liked the flavor or not, but I give Sprecher credit for trying something different and achieving moderate success.