Chapeau Pêche

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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The aroma on this is incredible. Peaches defintiely -- but more like a peach candy than a real peach I suspect syrup but that is fine in the aroma -- lots of oakiness and tobacco in the nose. The appearance is a little less than desirable due to the huge clods of yeast, minus that the color is good. Oh yeah the peach syrup is there an a little overly sweet, but it really is too bad because I think that the base brew might be rather good. All that said, Ithink this is very drinkable and was pleasantly suprised.

My wifes first beer and Kulimantor, I had a Westy 6. Sugary sweet and not very lambic like. Page 142 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide only 418 Classic Brews to go.

This beer tastes exactly how a lambic fruit beer should not taste: artificial, with an overpowering sweetness. Anyway, better than the terrible Chapeau lemon.

Bottle, Passage Cafe, Brugge, Belgium. soft frothy head. peach color. aroma peachy. Kind of like a can of peaches. Taste is tarty, peachy. Palate: crisp, smooth, non-lingering. Decent lambic.

Golden hazy orange with no head to speak of. Aroma brings fruity, and a bit of funk. Tastes like a mixed drink, but not necessarily like a beer. Not that I expected ’beer’, but it doesn’t have more than just a touch of tang to it. My lady liked it...and since I bought it for her I got the rating as a bonus.

Aroma is a bit acidic like, pours a golden orange with no head. Taste is extremely fruit-like, perhaps a bit too much like fruit juice. Mouthfeel is clean, and finishes sweet.

Chapeau's peche has a pungent, earthy, yeasty aroma emanating from a beautiful coppery amber body, absolutely filled with flecks of yeast. This lambic has a wonderful feel - it smoothly coats your tongue and palate. But the peach flavor I was expecting was overwhelmed by too much alcohol, and it finished with surprising bitterness, like an overripe, sour peachskin.

Shimmering golden hazy color with a thin off-white head. Aroma is tart, fruity, and a bit musty - interesting peach / barnyard aroma combination. The flavor is immediately sweet - overly sweet fruit juice for a lambic style. A touch of tart shows itself briefly, then quickly gois into a funky maybe horse blanket flafor, which changes toward black walnuts as it warms. Tasted bottle on May 13 2008

Good, but not De Troch’s best.

Very good for those beerlovers who love drink beer and wanna drink it instead of wine or champagne when celebrate something.