Chapeau Mirabelle

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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hazy light orange yellow coloured beer with some little carbonation and a medium white head. Nice sweet fruity aroma. Medium sweet palate. Finish is sweet fruity, with a rather dry finish. Not too bad.

Aroma: sweet toffee bready malt, ripe plum with a touch of apple.

Taste: sweet caramel, rich complex plum with black cherry and elderberry notes.

Great flavor. Sweet, but not quite cloying The sourness is not as harsh as most lambics, which is nice, but it could use a little more.

A vigorous pour into my small wine goblet produces a half finger thick, pale, white colored head that quickly dissapears. The beer smells quite fruity; lots of apple, sweet plum, a sort of melon note and a pear-tea like aroma; this is all without smelling the nose and just noticed during the pouring. A more focused look, yields lots more sweetness and more of the same with a saccharine, candy like fruit focus, but this is backed by an oxidized, not really nutty, perhaps more cardboard like character in the finish. The aroma soon is a bit more overwhelming than I would like and I am tired of smelling the nose.

Aggressively sweet, candy, syrup, grimace inducing; my pour palate needs to adjust. Candy like apple, plum and grape notes are omnipresent. The sweetness is so big that I can’t get a sense of any sourness and the base beer is long gone. Completely one dimensional and not really worth contemplating. I don’t even really like the beer as a desert type thing, or even something I would want to cook with and incorporate in a recipe. Cloying and fairly viscous, though in reality it is a lot lighter than the ample sweetness might suggest.

Too much sweetness and candy character, somehow I find that I have been sitting here with a bitter frown ever since taking a first whiff of the aroma.

Bottle. Medium yellow, orange. Cloudy, plenty of sediment. Funky, fruity, peach aroma. Very sweet, funk pineapple, sugary syrupy taste. Thick, heavy body, surprising.

Bottle. Hazy golden color, Small pink coca-cola head. Aroma of bitter plums, seeds and straw. Taste is sweet citrus and summer fruit. OK.

dough, resin, toast, hay, bubblegum, amber, cloudy, tan foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, heavily sour, medium body, creamy, lively, astringent,

12oz bottle-trade with jtclockwork-pours gold with a big offwhite head. Aroma is musty medium fruit skins, light malt, some cheese. Taste is sweet medium malt, sugary, light/medium malt, slight spice.

From a bottle poured a golden color with no head. Light tart flavor with a lingering sweet finish.

Bottle @ home shared with my girlfriend. Hazy yellow color, small white head. Smell sweetness and something similar to peach. Taste sweet and some passion fruits. Low to medium carbo, low body.

$3 single at Binny’s, April 11. Nice smell coming out of the bottle, a fruity wine with plum in the background. Color is a full pilsener range, just a little rosy in the thicker parts, and I’ve got a good-sized white head that collapses into a bowl. Taste is sweet, as other taters notice, but I don’t think of that as a flaw. Maybe if I had let it sit another year or so it might ferment out a little more. But I do find it enjoyable for a fruit flavored beer. I do get some cork, even though I’ve kept it vertical at all times. I’d have another.

Fra flaske på Brouwerij De Troch i Wambeek under Tour de Geuze 1 Mai 2011. Lys gylden. 0 skum. Kunstig fruktaroma - og smak.