Chapeau Abricot

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle: Pours orange, no head. Lots of sour and sweet fruit and sugar in the aroma, this is going to be f’n soda. Flavour does provide lots of apricot but at the expense of YOUR SOUL. This "beer" company just continues to release filmy, awful fruit juice. Bah.

Storminorman does it again...thanks, I think?? Clear, light yellow. Aroma of sweet canned apricots and syrup. Flavor is much the same with a thankful(although very very slight)tartness. Better than most in this series!

Bottled. Poured clear, orange-tinted apple juice yellow with just a few loose bubbles sticking around for head. The aroma picked up some sweetened apricots, but they came across as stale, and were backed by stale oaky notes.. some soap in there, too.. not good. The flavor was of super-sweetened apricots (fresher, more pleasant use of the fruit, but still stale on the back-end) with old, wet oak and a little barnyard funk in there too.. lots and lots of sugar! This was way too sweet on the palate, muting the nice acidic/tart notes that pop through intermittently.. the stale notes really took away from the enjoyment.

Lightly hazed dark golden to tan color. Small dense dark cream colored head. Heavy cling peach aroma. Trying to find some malt but only more jam and some light honey. Sweet and smooth on the palate, somewhat surprising with the spritzy sound in my ear. Sweet mild peach, but tending more toward apple flavors. Now this isn’t a bad cider, but a lambic? Get out of town. Actually would rate higher as a cider.

Amber, golden colour. White head, instantly diminishing. Sweet apricot aroma and dito flavour. Typical De Troch beer.

Orange-amber w/ slight sugary glaze. Thin white head. Sweet candy-like, artificial apricot aroma w/ notes of honey & wet leather. Sugary feel. Sweet, cloying artificial apricot flavour w/ a mild tartness in the finish.

Bottle: Cloudy darker gold, short white head. Strange aroma of cheddar, dust and rotting fruit. Sweetish apricot notes, but more just brown sugar and balsamic vinegar. Not good.

(Bottle) Pours a lightly hazy golden body with a small white head. Aroma of fruit (apricot, peach) and corn syrup. Flavor of apricot and lots of sugar. Alcohol-pop...

Aroma is sweet and stinking of tropical fruits. Taste is similarly overly sweet like god knows how they managed to get this much sugar in it.

25 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a dense white head. Sweet fruity and slight acidic aroma. Sticky sweet with dominant abricot note. Citric and acidic, which makes me shiver. Ends with an abricot and marcipan like flavour. Very sweet.