Unibroue Éphémère Apple

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Fruit Beer
Chambly, Canada

355ml bottle. A hazy light golden ale with a medium short lasting off white head. Strong aromas of Granny Smith apples with background wheat, coriander and orange peel. Apples are dominant on the tongue with a light-medium bodied fizzy clean palate. Low bitterness in the finish. A good refreshing fruit beer that gives those Belgians a run for their money.

Light with nice green apple juice finish....dont remember a lot more about this one.

Bruegala 2009 sampling - Pours a slightly cloudy yellow color with a small white head which leaves very little lacing. Aroma was a heavy apple note with faint hay straw notes. Apple is strong in the taste and produces a light sour/tart and some light wheat notes toward the end. Moderate body to uphold the flavors and aromas, thin texture and a very lively carbonation produce a pretty sweet and moderately lasting flavor with light acidity.

Enjoyed from a 12oz bottle in a tulip glass. The beer pours a straw-colored yellow and shows moderate to slightly high carbonation. Nose of green apples and a touch of pilsner malt. The palate shows the fruit as well, but lacks much other character. It would have liked to see a bit more beer with the fruit. In any event, still a pleasing and nicely crafted fruit beer.

Pours a slightly hazy light yellow with a large, quickly disappearing white head. Aroma is of yeast and apples. Flavor is mostly apples with some coriander and yeast. A well balanced fruit beer.

Pours a hazy, straw color with a creamy, rocky, average, white head which is somewhat lasting and leaves minimal, frothy lace. Nose is interesting but not very inviting; a eucalyptus note dominates everything, followed by sour apple jolly rancher candies, and minor notes of cobweb yeast, coriander, white pepper, and some more candy. Flavor is more very sour granny smith apple / sour apple jolly rancher notes and similar eucalyptus notes; other notes light coriander, honey, and highly acidic sourness, very sharp. Palate is lively to fizzy, light to medium, watery, and thin. Finishes quickly with more acidity and sour apple notes, and some perfume. Not my cup of tea, a very acidic beer, very candy-like, and sour without the intricacies of a sour beer, plus the sour apple notes just did not sit well with me. One of my least favorites from a great brewery.

12 oz bottle. I’ve never had anything quite like this before. It tastes like a good Belgian Beer with Granny Smith apples thrown in. I was expecting something more like a lambic, but this is way different. Different is good.

12 oz. bottle FIRST DRINK- Light tart apple flavor, cloudy pale color, not quite a lambic, not quite a standard belgian brew, interesting. LAST DRINK- Can’t get past the thought that it tastes like a blue moon with an apple wedge squeezed into it. Still it tastes good.