Apple Bocq

Brewed by Brasserie Du Bocq
Style: Fruit Beer
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Serve in Flute

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Typical haze and creamy froth. Tempting snout of apple strudel , wheaty sourness, wood, cinnamon. Apple custard sweetness the right side of cloying with lingeringly biscuity afters. Enough edge and acidity to retain some of the character of a witbier, and sidestep alcopop territory. A pleasant surprise.

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2008 I pint on draft at the Queens Arms in Kensington, London. I went into this thinking I would love this beer - reading the reviews that described it as a wheat beer mixed with a fruit (apple) beer. I was really disappointed though, not because it was terrible, but because it wasn’t incredible, and I feel like it could very well be. The body is cloudy like a wheat beer accompanied by a frothy white (half inch) head. The aroma is wheat and apple. Amazing at this point. The taste is too sweet. Past reviewers have mentioned an excess of "syrupy" flavor and I agree. If they toned down the syrupy sweetness of this beer it could be amazing. Obviously it doesn’t even taste like a beer, hence the 3.1%. But I could see this as one of my top ten if they jacked up the alcohol and got rid of the sweetness.

UPDATED: MAY 6, 2008 cask at white hart, crystal palace. Apple, wheat nose. Pours an opaque yellow. Taste, apple, cinnamon, malt. Some other spices. Reminicent of apple strudel. I quite enjoyed it.

Large frothy head on a good yellow pour,some brisk carbonation rising.Aroma,cinnamon,apple,orange peel,malty note,nutmeg.Flavour apple sweetness,woody sensation,cinnamon,orange marmalade.Woody taste gives it a nice edge,spicey,nutmeg like.Finish,sweet woody taste dry.

Yellow and hazy. Has a white head, fully lasting. Has a fine aroma, apple and citrus, orange. Sweet too. Flavor is heavy sweet. Light syrupy/creamy texture. Soft carbonation

Tasted at Delirium Cafe, Brussels. Tall, white head on this beer. Apple and yeast aroma. Cloudly like a wit. Coriander and yeast mixed with sweet apple juice in the flavor. Lots of carbonation. I think I understand what the brewer was aiming for and this is a good apple beer.

Cask at The Rake. Very cloudy pale white beer. Thin head. Aroma is quite spicy and wheaty with a strong distinct apple sweetness. A bit of coriander citrus as well. Flavour is much more apply that the aroma suggested. Very fresh apple and light clove/allspice apple pie sweetness along with a soft citrusy tartness. The aroma is quite similar to the Ephemere Apple but the flavour here is more cidery. Soft fruitiness and a lingering perfumey sweetness as well. It is quite unique and I think it works pretty well.

Bottled. Solid yellow body, crisp taste, apple is fairly rasping with a little sweetness behind it. Straight out of a cold fridge it’s quite refreshing. Felt a bit queasy when it warmed towards the bottom. Would have no hesitation serving this with desserts in the summer.

250ml Bottle at Home 31/12/2010 Fruity yeasty aroma. Carbonation. Golden coloured and hazy in appearance with a fruity apple flavour. Sweet on the palate with a hint of dryness in a wheaty malt finish.

Cloudy apple juice looking with an appetizing white head. Cox’s apples and yeast in the aroma. Quite innocent. Smooth and very easy. Apples and light fresh herbs. Lovely puffy mouth-feel, Very refreshing if only for the fact that the alcohol is totally lost. I could knock any number of these back.