Chapeau Banana

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle. Poured yellow color with a minimal frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Heavy sweet banana and wheat aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Light to medium sweet fruit flavor with light to medium sweet finish of short to moderate duration. This beer did not meet my expectations.

A Mes rate. Draught at ZBF.
A little too yellow for my liking but a nice clean gold(ish) colour with a thin white head. Smells and tastes like a McDonalds milkshake with a shite load of sugar added, and that’s saying something. Incredibly sweet. Massive banana and that’s it. I’m sure the British white Reebok wearing chavs love this.

Bottle. Golden- orange colour with a small white head. Aroma is banana, sourness, yeast. Flavour is sweet, banana, yeast, acid, citrus. OK beer.

A diffuse blonde with a white head. Aroma of banana bread and nail remover. In mout, a sweet aple and banana in mout, with very light acidity. Not bad, not good. LCBO offering.

Pale clear, old gold yellow; faint white rim, little carbonation. Nauseating smell of banana-mash, overripe, and yet sweetened with unbelievably cheap syrup of indistinct descent. Taste again overripe banana, honey or honey-covered nuts, as in some Turkish dessert meant for catching wasps. Faint sourness, as if the bananas are fermenting. Slight sharp edge, light bodied. Truly disgusting.

Bottle. Pours with a clearish golden body with some sediment and a small white head. Aroma: Urine. Some must, cork, vanilla, nut, fake banana and rotting garbage. Taste...LADY’S AND GENTLEMAN, WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Officially the worst fruit Chapeau that I have tasted to date. Cloying does not even begin to describe. Buttery, waxy, steaming garbage. Terrible, Awful, ABOMINABLE! Sticky mouthfeel that is about as pleasantly sticky as napalm. God this is bad.

Murky dull yellow in colour. Aromas are sweet banana milkshake. Flavours are sour banana milkshake. Great, if you are Donkey Kong.

Bottle (ZBF2008)
Sickly sweet, over-ripe banana aroma - you can tell it’s real bananas not just something from the chemical industry - some lambic tartness. Similar in taste. Surprising, but it works quite well.

Copenhagen beer marathon 2004, Golden color, banana aroma and taste, light body, watery finish. WHY?

This may be the first beer of this profile that I have had. Pours gold with nose of apple juice, ginger ale, and mild banana. Tastes of apple juice, ginger ale, not a great banana flavor, and a bit sweet. Comes of like a shandy variant.