Brick Bambay

Formerly brewed at Brick Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Waterloo, Canada

Serve in Flute

Originally rated September 2005. Guess I poured this brew down too fast. Gave me a big fat white head that is creamy and heavy thick in lacing. Pretty good retention. Killed the carbonation though that I found in the bottles. Colour is a cloudy golden with amber highlights. Very nice citrus scent, specially grapefruit, and once the brew breathes... malt is detected mildly. The taste is fruity on the citrus side as well, with grapefruit in the forefront and a touch of honey. Really not too sweet, but just right. Extremely refreshing and very low in alcohol.... I could drink many of these, like I did tonight after buying this six pack at the LCBO.

I had it as a friend got it for his wife to try (she hates beer) and she said it still tasted like beer... It may as well be fermented orangina. Perhaps after a day of back breaking labour out in the back yard but only if you are too lazy to make yourself a radler (sorry.. shandy). Suffice it to say that I’m glad I didn’t pay for it.. It has its place as a beer cocktail but to call it a fruit beer is a bit more of a stretch then I would really be willing to make..

341ml bottle from the <a href=http://www.lcbo.com/ target=blank>LCBO in Belleville, Ontario. Golden yellow in colour, very thin white head, small amounts of lacing. The aroma is very sweet and sugary, light citrus. The flavour is fruity, juicy with a noticable grapefruit syrupyness. Coating mouthfeel, medium/light body, medium carbonation. Finishes quite sweet and lingering. Experiment gone wrong.

No Best Before date.

If someone asked me to brew up something that tastes like the product of an unholy union between a soda pop and a nondescript malt beverage, this would be my target brew. I could rant on about the genuinely artificial flavors, but why belabor the point? This isn’t beer.

Singles bin at LCBO- Cloudy yellow pour with a big fizzy white head. Minute lace. Fruity, mostly grapefruit and other citrus aromas, with some bread. Taste is sweet citrus, again, mostly grapefruit with sugar on it. Slightly cloying, but better than expected.

Grapefruit aroma, hazy yellow, pours a big ,short lived white head, leaves some lace too. Taste is grapefruit (I’ve had worse apricot wheat beers) Very sweet, but oddly enjoyable, I wouldn’t say refreshing though. Not too bad, better than expected.

First bottle out of a basket of fruit beers from Mr_Kimchee. Smells like grapefruit juice. Good starting head is quickly gone. Cloudy gold beer. Too much sweetness and the beer is syrupy rather than fruity. I expected fruit juice and beer and ended up with a pound of sugar on red grapefruit half. The other raters’ references to soda pop are bang on.

Bouteille claire de 341 ml obtenue grace à Gonzonbeer. Arôme: Odeur de pamplemousses, de mangues ainsi que d’autres fruits. Apparence: Couleur blonde pâle voilée. Large col mousseux qui disparaît vite. Faible densité des bulles. Large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de fraises et de pamplemousses. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est la texture sont mince. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût de jus de fruit. A mon avis il s’agit d’un cooler aux fruits. Le tout est très raffraichissant. (Rating #277)