Chapeau Banana

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

red-green colour, deep banana aroma, sweet, sweet, sweet ... too much carbonation

Novelty beer - tastes like cider with pisang ambon - your kids will love it ;-)

I know I’m ’posed to hate this beer, but I found kinda enjoyable. I like the concept even if the execution isn’t great: way too flat, and the lambic-ness is not obvious, but it manages a decent balance of sweetness and tartness. Kinda lame, but I didn’t find it as terrible as some of these tough guys.

Definitely a banana lambic, though I had hoped it would be better. It actually isn’t too bad, but there is a nasty quality to its aroma that puts me off, a sort of stale, sour feeling. The taste is somewhat better, with the banana showing more clearly; it’s an interesting combination of sweetness and sourness, more complex than I expected. This is one of those drinks that makes me want a better one of the same kind, because I can tell the idea has promise even though this isn’t a good example.

Rather flat and not all that much banana flavor. This is an odd one because it’s so very sweet. It’s a bit like drinking juice. Reading the harsh ratings, I see such vitriol and I wonder what it is about fruit-flavor beers (with the exception of quelque chose) that gets people so aggravated?!

Bottle - corked and capped. Pours hazed gold with a small white head. Nose is unmistakably banana. There’s no confusing it. Light tartness, sugar and the faintest of wood notes. Taste is very sweet! An odd banana, yeast, tart fruit, light wood and maybe hints of caramel. Tastes like a tart banana liquor or maybe a "dirty banana" mixed drink. Body is light and bubbly with more sticky sweetness than dry, acidic tartness. Finish is more banana, light wood, some sugary notes and tart fruit. I wanted to hate this more than I actually did. It’s not that good and is not a "lambic" but it’s drinkable.

Bottle courtesy of biegaman. Banana Lambic? Yikes. Pours a clear pale gold with a spare diminishing white head. Aroma of sweet banana candy, which is nothing like I would want a beer to smell -- giving it 4 for aroma is generous in my opinion. Doesn’t make me anxious to taste it. Flavour: Well I certainly prefer it over the aroma, it’s not as sweet and artificial, it’s still weird though: Like a tart banana along with some citrus, a hint of oak and a dry lightly bitter finish. Light bodied, syrupy mouthfeel. What an odd beer, and not really in a good way. Not something I’d drink again.

Bottle. I didnt enjoy this one too much... Too sweet and too syrupy. Dont think I would drink this again.