Chapeau Mirabelle

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottle. Dull yellow pour, slight white head. Smells extremely sweet - lots of plum and sugar. Very syrupy, sweet flavor. Plum and dark fruit come out more as it warms.

33 cl bottle, Sheffield, UK. Greyish apricot colour, sweet jammy aroma, sickly marzipan sweet flavour. Juicy on the palate with a very sweet puckering finish.

Pours a bit hazy golden with small off white head. Sweet aroma of plums, canded sugar also a bit sourness. Sour sweet mouthfeel. Very sweet flavor of plums, fruity sour a bit perry, maybe too sweet to drink a whole bottle, but as a desert beer OK. Sweet sour palate. Finishes sour sweet.

13th July 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Sharish and slightly acidic beer offset by some nice sweet plum flavours. Nice.

The beer pours a yellow color with a white head. The aroma is very heavy on the pears, plums and sugar. This beer smells like it may give me diabetes. The flavor is heavy on the plums and is very syrupy. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. While this may be a traditional lambic, don’t think it is going to resemble a Cantillon or Drie Fonteinen.

Bouteille de 25cl. Orange pale, trouble,mousse plutôt faible. Cette lambic fruitée est vraiment trop sucrée, elle m’a rappellé quelque chose du red bull, c’est dire! On distingue quelque peu l’arôme de prune mais le bonbon est bien plus présent. Dommage, les bières à la prunes ne sont pas légion et celle-ci, sans être immonde ne laissera pas de souvenires impérissables. Trouvée à Vanuxeem - Ploegstaert.

A: The pour is a cloudy light amber color with a large slightly off-white colored head. S: An incredibly intense sweet plum aroma that has some notes of peaches. There is a bit of a honey note to this beer too, along with just a touch of sourness. T: Things stay pretty much the same on the palate. The plums are incredibly sweet, much sweeter than most plums I’ve ever eaten and don’t have that little bit of tartness. This is probably what leads me toward picking up some peach and honey. Tartness is really minimal, but at least the off-flavors are too. M: The body is light to medium with a lively carbonation and a slightly sugary feel on the tongue. D: I liked this one a fair amount. Good fruit flavor, and while sweet, it’s not completely cloying or sickening. Plus, no vile off-flavors.

Bottle. Pours golden orange with a thin white head. Sweet plummy aroma. Similar flavor. I’ve never had a plum candy, but I bet this is what a plum candy tastes like. Decent.