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Melbourn Brothers Cherry

Melbourn Brothers Cherry

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A Lambic - Fruit brewed by
Melbourn Brothers (Samuel Smith)

Stamford, England

bottled
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1843.39/5.03.38/5.03.4%48.2 Flute, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Brewed with malted barley, wheat, hops, yeast, water, fresh cherries and their juice. Cherry Fruit Beer has a bouquet of fresh cherries. It makes an excellent aperitif in place of dry sherry. Complements carbonnade a la beouf, mussels in white wine, flavourful cheeses.

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 bac080 (398), Boardman, Ohio, USA
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/519/20

Feb 22, 2004  
A-freakin-mazing. This has quickly become one of my favorite beers of all time.

 jeremytoni (551), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/514/20
Jul 25, 2008  
From a bottle poured a ruby color with a fair amount of light pink head. Nice cherry flavor with a quick tart finish.


 WeeHeavySD (1705), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Jul 21, 2008  
Bottle from 2nd Stone Sour Fest. Pours red. Nose is full of cherry syrup notes. Taste is like cherry soda, ehh.


 lb4lb (1340), Austin, Texas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 18, 2008  
Pours a rich blood red color with a short lived pinkish hue. Smell is very cherry like and strongly sweet and mostly artificial. Cherry candy like but still pleasant. Sweet flavor, but it tastes nice. Not very beer like, but a hint of malt in there and a touch drying in the finish. I feel like I shouldn’t like this, and it was very artificial, but I still enjoyed it.


 kidmartinek (707), austin, Texas, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/513/20
Jul 17, 2008  
Pours plum color with a 2 inch near-pink head, which doesn’t last as long as it takes me to write this rating. Smells like artificially sweetened with nutrasweet cherry candy you get at the dentist’s office. Flavor is of cherry candy or soda with no semblance of beer whatsoever. Oh but this a a "Cherry" beer, and a lambic, so I must rate it highly, right? Finish is slightly metallic and tart. Overall, non-memorable.


 pint_size (1004), Austin, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jul 17, 2008  
7-17-08 bottle
(#999 rating) Blood red maroon pour with a fizzy pink head. Smells just like generic grocery store brand "cherry sours". Not much more to it - just that candy smell. Flavor is sweet and cherry sour like as well. I am very surprised that this is actually drinkable to me - as I am not normally a big fruit beer/lambic fan - but this isn’t over the top and is light. Overall it is nice and drinkable




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