Chapeau Banana

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Clear golden with a tiny white short lasting head. Not that sweet aroma with hints of banana and barnyard. Flavour had banana with mild abrnyard and wood notes. Finished mild tart.

Clear yellow with no head at all. Banana bubble gum style (skumbananer) Violently synthetic & sweet. Very soft & mild body with a very sweet & cloying banana taste.

One of those beers so bad it’s not worth the effort to think up a creative way to describe how much it sucks.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of ripe and brown bananas and mustiness. Flavor of banana and sugar. This certainly is not my type of lambic, but for what it is, it is not all that bad.

Sampled at Zythos 2009. Pale gold, thick lasting beige head. Well it smells of bananas which is a start. Startlingly sweet. Not as bad as I thought. Some attempt at a bit of sourness.

Bottled 25cl (BB 12/2007)
Golden apple color, not much head. Strong aroma of overaged bananas. Sugary sweetness with some soutrness and banana flavor. About what you could think this is (banana flavoured sugary drink).

Bottle. A hazy, golden-orange beer with a small, white head. A slightly funky, sourish nose with banana dominating. The flavor is also citrusy and slightly sourish and funky, with ripe banana the most evident. Slightly stingingly sour mouthfeel. Short finish. A really strange one, or at least unusual. Refreshing, quenching and sort of nice. I expected a banana lambic to be a horrible idea, but it works. In a way. On the sweet side though, without it being just sweet. (090430)

UPDATED: OCT 28, 2009 1. 250ml Bottle at the Fighting Cock, Bradford 07/12/2008 Banana fruit aroma. Clear golden coloured sweet and syrupy on the palate. Crisp and slightly dry in the finish. 2. From the Bottle at the Valley, Scarborough 06/02/2009 Very hoppy aroma. Golden coloured with a very fruity banana flavour. Crisp dry and slightly bitter in the finish.

Tampa Weekly Gathering @BT Wesley Chapel-12oz bottle-I got in trade with jtclockwork-pours a thin white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is sweet fruit, light/medium malt. Taste is sweet fruit, light/medium malt, secondary spice hops.

Bottle. Pours a pale nice golden colour with fast disappearing fizzy head. Aroma of quite artificial sweet banana candy (skumbananer). Sticky mouthfeel. The flavour is very sweet with a good sourness, artificial bananas, some plastic, yeast and malt. Very sweet banana finish with some sourness.