Unibroue Cerezo

Formerly brewed at Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Fruit Beer
Chambly, Canada

Serve in Flute

Originally rated December 2005. Just after trying Unibroue’s Quelque Chose, I decided to try this new one. Another Unibroue fruit beer with cherries. This one pours a clear deep raspberry red colour with a medium head. Retention and lacing is minimal. At first, this one smells like the other brother. Then, more cherries comes out of there with hints of licorice. No tart here as well, mildly sticky. The taste starts off with a mix of sweetness and sourness on the cherry part. It then goes through a medicinal middle to finish with notes of licorice. In the aftertaste, grain like corn comes out to stay a while. Not as complex as the Quelque Chose, but still very pleasing. Interesting as an aperitif.

Bottle. Pours reddish brown with a small off-white head that quickly shrinks to a ring around the top. Aroma is mainly cherries but also with a little spice and a whiff of booze. Flavour is pretty much the same but with more noticeable spice, mainly cinnamon and clove, and with a little tartness. Interesting beer, not the sort of thing I’d usually go for, but glad I tried it.

Thin head to mild cover medium carbonation in a dark red pour aroma cherry apple mild cider malty flavour sweet cherry apple light hoppiness woody pear candy taste cinnamon strawberries a plesant sweet drink at 7.5% has a slight tart too not my cup of tea but good finish sweet easy drinking light tart.

Courtesy TheCheeseMan. Mostly clear reddish-brown color with very little head. Weird cherry-like aroma mixed with an odd yeasty dusty aroma. Taste has stale sour cherry along with a clove finish. A very oddly unpleasant aroma plus a cough syrup taste.

Pours a ruby red. No head. Aroma is artificial cherry and clove. Flavor is syrupy and cloying. Not my thing.

Courtesy TheCheeseMan. Clear amber. No head. Spicy clove and candy cherry syrup aroma. Same flavor. Overly sweet. Medium body, syrupy. Bleh.

Sweet cherry aroma. Red brown colour with poor head and lacing. Sour cherry flavour. Flat palate.

Pouts a very red color like a cherry. No head whatsoever. Smells like cherries, a tiny bit of cinnamon and maybe some medicinal sort of notes. Flavor is very syrupy and cherry. Tastes a lot more like wine with some beer-like traits than it does like beer with some fruit-like flavors. Nearly no malt or hops present. Carbonation is mediumish and it is somewhat thick and very syrupy, as opposed to thick and creamy. It’s alright, but not much like beer.