Chapeau Exotic

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Yellow with a hint of orange. Thin head. Sweet pineapple scent is overpowering. Slight locker room funk smell. Way too sweet with a nasty aftertaste. Yellow lifesavers in a bitter liquid form. I would rather be drinking a Steelback Tango (currently worst rated beer on site at time I took these notes). The worst beer I have ever had.

Pours a clear golden yellow color with almost no head. Aroma is musty old saw dust, some brett, some pineapple candy, and mold. Don’t know why I keep swirling this to get a better smell. Flavor is sweet candy pineapple, musty wood, honey, and a touch of tartness.

[little bottle from LCBO, there is a little sticker that says (1.5% alc./vol.)] Who would have thought that the worst beer that I have ever had (to date) would be from belgium and not be a pissy yellow lager. This beer poured a hazy pumkin colour with barely any foam that quickly disappeared. It smells like a combination of cheap butterscotch candy (the kind that comes in the orange wrapper) and dumdum pineapple lollipops. The flavour is pretty much pineapple fading to a not unpleasant malt flavour, though cloyingly sweet and slightly vinegary. Really not dry enough or carbonated enough either. Real garbage.

UPDATED: AUG 24, 2005 Bottle (330ml). Poured slightly cloudy yellow with a tinge of copper, a thin dribble of white head, non-stop large bubble action. The smell of sugar and overripe tropical fruit just about filled the room as I poured it - the nose is a blend of pineapple, papaya, mango, passionfruit, citrus - NOT rotten, just ... unfortunate. I get no beer notes at all. Tastes like a weak, sour cooler made up of above fruit essences, iron filings, with a harsh taste and harsher aftertaste, which gets worse and worse - foul, actually. Avoid.

Pours a combination of light gold and disgusting chunkiness, generous enough to provide large chunks of two separate colors. Just lovely. One of the worst beers I’ve ever smelled, like rotting pineapple mixed with a disgusting chemical undertone, can’t decide if it’s weed killer or extremely toxic bug spray. Taste-wise, it’s not as repugnant, just far too sweet, nasty pineapple, and loads of sugar mixed with a faint hint of something that might resemble a real lambic on its worst day. The European Union sets up all sorts of strange rules, right? I mean, they had some rule about spontaneously fermented beers at one point which threatened real lambic production, and I vaguely recall something about certain cheeses as well. If they can do that, why can’t they do something to stop these Chapeau people before they brew again?

dark yellow colour. sweet cheesey parm, apple juice and caneed pinaplle aroma. very candy-sih. like carbonated pineapple juice. I don’t drink pop.

Aroma of hay and pineapple. This beer smells awfully bad. Slightly hazy, yellow coloured. White thin head doesn’t last long. Sticky and too sweet. Dirty pineapple taste. One sip more than enough...

Easily one of the most lousy lambics in the world. Alcohol clocking in (via LCBO lab testing) at 1.5%ABV. Nose of nothing but stewed pineapple. Flat. Delmonte pineapple canning syrup candy necklaces. Light cheesiness. Cloying, sticky and nasty.

I’ve never had anything worse in my mouth. This coming from a guy that drinks bud chelada. Points for having a great pour but beyond that everything about this beer is amazingly aweful. Tastes and smells like garbage juice. Just yuck.

Keeping with the tradition of this brewery, this sucks. Aroma is acidic pineapple candy. Pours a clear straw yellow with no head. Tastes like a cross between bad Christmas candy and Halls menthol. The alcohol tastes like cough syrup. Terrible.