Unibroue Éphémère Apple

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

Pours a crystal clear golden color into the fluted glass with a small, crispy fizzy head and almost no lacing. The scent was of tart apples and candied fruit. A very dry play on the palate with hints of sour apples. A very refreshing summer drink.

Appearance: Fluffy white head, light golden body. Smell: Tart Granny Smith apples with a bit of coriander and light malt. Taste: Very light. A bit of wheat, a bit of apple, some spice notes. Tart, dry finish. Mouthfeel: Thin, highly carbonated. Drinkability: Intriguingly delicate; nothing to get in the way of drinking it, and the light flavour would pair well with light cheeses or starchy desserts.

12oz bottle. Pours clear golden color with full foamy white head. Aroma strong granny smith and yeasty. Taste is of Belgian white and lite apple with dry and apple after taste.

Pours a hazy gold with white head. Aroma of sweet malt, apple, tartness, and some bread. Flavor of sweet apples and malt. Hints of sourness and spice. Fairly dry. Not bad for a fruit beer, quite refreshing.

Tap @ David Copperfield’s in NYC’s upper east side. Pours gold with a thin white ring of a head. Light apple nose. Taste is sweet with a lot of apples there. Pretty smooth.

Bottle from Country Club Liquors; Nose of bready yeast, apples, and a hint of tartness, cloudy yellow gold with a medium white head; flavor is apples, but not sweet, a bit of acidic tartness, and light spices. Very nice light brew. My daughter-in-law (kiapepito) would like this one!

355 mL Bottle. Aroma is a sweet wicking waft with apple skins, pie crust and airy florals. A little subdued, but with a nciely minerally waft. Pours a slightly clouded bright gold, with a frothing head of microbubble white. Flavor is mild and gentle, with a somewhat realistic apple flavor and a lot of nice Belgian character. Definite vanilla cake batter and a run of pale spices. Not too much fruit, instead just a flourish of yeast, apple juice, distant and alive. A vibrant, beautifully dry and refreshing quaff. Hurt, if for any reason by it’s lack of depth and character. Pretty blah finish and a plain smack. IT really isn’t a fruit beer, just a "single" inflected with some apple tone. I think you could reproduce this beer without adding any apple, just managing yeast and malt flavors. So, in that regard it’s not exemplary. However, unlike other fruit beers it’s clean, summer drinking dry and not gross. So there.

355 mL, bb 05-08-08. Cloudy pale gold with a medium head that lasts. Nose of green apple hard candy. Flavor of watery apple cider made with sour green apples. Aftertaste of bubblegum. Palate is light, slightly dry, fizzy and refreshing. Better fruit beers abound. That’s all ah hafta say ’bout that.