Unibroue Éphémère Apple

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

Draught. Overly sweet fruit nose. Candylike strawberry. Hazy gold. Sweet with a sour finish and a clean palate

750ml bottle. Surprisingly delicious for a fruit flavored beer. Pours a cloudy golden blonde with a white quickly dissipating head. The aroma is of apples and wheat. The apple flavor is suprisingly subtle when tasted though. A delicious balance of sweet wheat notes that call to mind a hefeweizen with a hint of apple. A fine beer for dessert or with a snack.

I’m a fan of some of Unibroue’s beers, however most of the Unibroue selection is limited to where I live, Manitoba. Unibroue offered a Collection 2008 pack of its beers that included a few beers not available in this part of Canada. I’ve always wanted to try the Ephemere Pomme (Apple) beer, and I finally did. I was very much pleased with the taste and aroma of the beer. It has a hint of apple that was very inviting. It’s a beer that would be welcoming to almost any beer connoisseur, including ones who tend to drink lighter beers. It has a bit of a carbonated fizz which was a bit of a surprise. I recommend this beer if you can find it.

12 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquor - Pours a hazy light golden color with a one finger thick white head. Aroma is apple, grapes, and faint yeast. Flavor is mostly apple. Palate is slightly bitter, a tad dry and just a little bit of sourness. Light to medium body. A good beer.

Shared bottle thanks to fordest. Aromas of sweet apples and not much in the flavor. Still a decent brew that was very drinkable.

pours a yellowish amber with a fizzy white head. aroma is apple, hoppy floralness, wheat. taste is apple, hops. not bad, but definitely a dessert beer or special treat. though i respect the quality of the brew, i wasn’t a huge fan. does make a good spring treat on a rainy april day though.

750 ml bottle. Hazy pale yellow. Aromas of apples led to a expectation of apples in the flavor. I mean there was apple in the flavor, but I was expecting something else. As it was, it was still decent. Wheat flavors and apple together. Not too bad.

Today really was not the right day to taste this one - rainy outside, pretty much typical for an early december day in Denmark. Pair this with a true thirst quencher, probably ideally suited for a summer day in the garden, and you really have a mismatch. Apples everywhere very nice in the aroma and slightly lighter on the tounge. Slightly thin and quite fizzy with a quite sharp finish. Will definetely save one of these for next summer.