Chapeau Lemon

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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The flavour is totally artificial, sickening sweet. I found it almost impossible to finish. Simply horrible!

The combination of lemon and sour ale (= sour and sour) is not my style. Though ice-cold it’s somewhat refreshing.

acidic, sweet. good sniffin'. rather bubbly. i tasted lots of..... apples. good, nonetheless. lemon+alcohol usually resembles a cleaning product, but this didn't.

0.25l bottle. Pours a golden yellow with no head. Incredibly strong sour-citrus smell. Very sweet. Taste is incredibly sour and really citrus-y. Lots of lemon. Really sour! Had my mouth watering afterwards. Weird stuff.

Well, I like this one. Pours a clear light amber. Acidic lemony nose. As mentioned by SilkTork, the lemon here is absolutely real and tastes like the sharp acidity has been cut with some sugar. I could find nothing as offensive here as some of the reviews suggest. Interesting if nothing else. My only bitch here is that my cork was either cheap or old and a bit of it fell off the bottom as I was uncorking.

250mL bottle. Pours golden, with cloudy particles suspended. No head. Aroma is very acidic and sour. Flavour is extremely extremely sour. No real aftertaste. Overall, while I wasn’t expecting something sweet, the sourness is really overpowering. It’s basically like drinking unsweetened lemonade. Not particularly pleasant.

not what expected. I’ve enjoyed some of the other chapeau lambics. this just tasted and smelled like lemon concentrate. no real lambic base to it just like lemon extract and water. not good.

Ce n’est pas une bière à saveur de citron, c’est une limonade avec un arrière-goût de bière! Comme c’est sûr!!!

this taste of ajax

This is so lemon-y, you can almost taste the zest. It is very nice, though I do not think I could handle more than one at a time.