Chapeau Banana

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Originally rated July 2007. Purchased at the LCBO on Rideau street. I like how they get a new kind from this brewery every year. Comes in a small 250ml brown bottle, and this one had the best before date: 22/03/09. Pours a clean golden-bronze colour with lots of carbonation. The head is white, creamy and has big bubbles of all sizes. It leaves a small coat over the brew, and some decent lacing. The nose is totally all banana, but surprisingly, smells like real bananas and not an essence. Watery mouthfeel with little grip. You really taste the lambic in the taste. Mild banana flavour at first, but goes into the sour-lambic aftertaste with a small amount of vinegar. Very nice different fruit lambic, that I could enjoy from time to time.

From bottle @ Brouwerij De Troch. Low white top. Deep yellow body. Smells like Banos (those small banana chocolates filled with an artificial, barely chewable banana foam). Taste is perfumed and soapy banana. Yes, we have no bananas.

Light color, no head almost. Smell is bad, kind of a banana gone sour. Taste wasn’t as bad as I expected though.

Almost no head, liquid is yellow in color, very banana nose and taste to the exclusion of any other tastes. No tartness just sweetness. I prefer lambics that offer a balance of sweet and tart. If you want to drink a banana, this is for you. If you want complexity, this is not for you. But it might be useful in a reduction for a dessert sauce.

bottle@’t Waagstuk: wow, this is much better than I expected it to be, basically this is just banana juice which is a good thing as far as I am concerned, clear banana colour with basically no head, taste is sweet with lots & lots of banana bubblegum, juice & candy sugar, light malt/juice body with not much carnonation

Tallahassee, Fl - Fermentation Market - capped and corked 12 oz bottle. Pours a sheer light golden with some floaties. Odd, slightly stale aroma, pick up some amaretto notes, a hint of corn syrup. Flavor is sweet and sticky, not very reminiscent of bananas. Picks up some brief amaretto notes, a brief hint of artificial banana flavor, sugar water, not much else. Mouthfeel is sticky, slightly artificial feeling.

Medium white head. Yellow body. Intensely perfumy banana chewing gum aroma. Sweet-dryish banana candy taste with soft drink notes. No complexity. Light body. Mild mouthfeel. Sweetish banana candy aftertaste. Awful. Horrible. (Taster at the brewery shared by geokkjer.)

Den nächsten Fruchtbier-Kandidaten stellt De Troch mit einem Bananen-Bier. Geruchlich vergleichbar mit einem Bananen-Milchshake; vertseckt ein Lambic-Unterton. Geschmack sehr dominant nach der erwähnten Frucht. Im Abgang dann eine schwache Lambic-Note, Nuancen von Bitterkeit. O Mann, ist das süß! Dieses Fruchtbier ist völlig überfrachtet. Trotzdem auch irgendwie lecker und auch nicht völlig daneben. 1 Glas reicht dennoch. Test vom 22.2.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche