Chapeau Exotic

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

dark cloudy gold. no head. sour, vinegar, cardboard, pineapple, medicine aroma. flavor is extremely sweet with low carbonation. notes of paper, caramel, sugar, pineapple. sticky, candy-like, extremely cloying palate. the sugariest beer i’ve tried.

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is some pineapple along with sourness and rubber,. Flavour is really bad, pineapples, rubber, metal and some paper. Really not pleasant at all. Yet another De Troch, that just isn’t very nice.

Bottled. Poured clear apple juice/urine golden with a dusting and light ring of white head sticking around.. couple loose bubbles rising intermittently. The aroma carried forth vinegar and faint pineapple.. very, very heavily sweetened giving a soda-ey impression. The flavor had almost all of its tart lambic character drowned out by sugars.. thinly-sliced pineapple bits at the edges of the tongue were powerfully sweetened as well (that might have been a good addition if they left it alone).. cloyingly-sweet, sticky finish sticks around for far too long. Lighter-bodied with mild-to-moderate carbonation... tacky and too damn sweet. This was overdone and hard to drink.

How unbelievably pathetic. Hazy orange pour, quickly diminishing thin head. Scents of light pineapple, wood, underattenuated everything, lemon peel, mold. flavors of sweet tropical fruits, mostly pineapple and some notable guava, no bitterness and only mild lambic-styled acidity. Finishes sticky, too sweet and too lengthy. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, watery, sticky. What an abomination, easily the worst lambic I’ve ever had. One sip leads to a joyful drainpour. I hope it doesn’t ruin my sink.

UPDATED: AUG 14, 2007 This beer had a light golden color with a lot of sediment. It had nice foam with a moderate amount of carbonation. Sweet pineapple and coconut dominated the aroma and flavor.

Gotta give the credit, it smell and taste is very pineapple like. There is also a minty sensation that seems kinds unnatural. Still the fruitiness as well as the average carbonation of the drink seem intact.

The aroma has mint, pineapple, sugar, and yeast. The appearance is golden with a nice head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall it’s not bad but not good either.

(Bottled) Hazy golden with a very small head. Strong, sweet aroma of pineapple and coconut. Flavor is pretty much the same: pineapple, coconut and sugar. No signs of lambic tartness found here. Medium-bodied, sugary-sweet palate with low carbonation. A sweet pineapple lemonade, and bearable as such - but no lambic or even beer, IMO.