Unibroue Quelque Chose

Bottle 2002 Limited Edition from Belmont in Fort Wayne, IN. Poured reddish brown color and minimal fizzy off-white head that mostly diminished with virtually no lacing. Moderate cherry tart fruit aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Medium sweet balanced flavor with a medium sour citrus finish of moderate duration.

(500 ml bottle, 2002 (labelled "08-08-02") from Belfast Co-op) Pours a slightly hazy reddish orange with a few bubbles of head. Aroma kind of like cherry cough syrup only not as sweet. Mouthfeel soft, pleasant. A few very thin rings of lacing cling to the inside of the glass as do fine sheets of syrup-like liquid. Flavor of fairly strong sour cherries with a cough drop/cough syrup medicinal quality. Takes on a bit of Fishermens Friend licorice flavor as well as it warms. Not really objectionable but the flavor is just not appealing.

Clove medicinal herbal cherry with a hint o fludens in the aroma. 2002 bottle pours dead - no bubbles. deep red, looked brownish coming out. Sweetish herbal lolli-gumdrops. Cherry cidery (e comment). prev info is from fridge temp. heated up for 40 secs: brings out a lot of flavor - alcoholic cherry tea with yeast, bg full of bursting med cherry. super herbal, velvety. Definitel a winter beer for recuperative nights. Can picture drinking this in a ski lodge... almost sickening, but not quite. maybe the cure you need... or may curdle your innards.

Bottle. Copper colour with a beige head.. Aroma is cherry, yeast and fruit. Flavour is cherry, yeast, fruit and alcohol.

Bottle from 08/08/02. Consumed July 5th, 2006. Clear amber color with no head. Strong aroma of cherries (obviously) and a bit of yeast. Tastes kind of like a cherry wine cooler initially. Starts off sweet and fruity. Then it turns a bit sour. That flavor leads to a medicine taste that distracts from the experience.

Bottled, 0.5ltr champagne-corked. Served at cellar-temperature. Almost clear, copper-colored, with a little rim of white bubbles. Pleasant aroma with cherries, glühwein and raisins. The cherries is quite subdued. Rounded flavor with cherries, a bit acidity, glühwein and sweetness. Lightly astringent finish with some alcohol. Delicious at this temperature in the summer-heat, will have to try to find another bottle to savour heated when it gets colder. (060704)

From a caged corked 500 ml. magnum shaped brown bottle with a small card attached to neck that offers serving ideas and a blurb on back, and a bottling date on the back of bottle, 08/08/02. Sampled at cellar temperature in a chalice. Made an average appearance, poured a cherry juice red with a fizzy head that quickly settled into a nothing, no lacing, low carbonation. Had a tart cherry fruity nose with light whiffs of spicy alcohol. A slickly tart, smooth, almost watery, uncarbonated water that is, full bodied mouth feel, above average drinkability. Tart cherry juiciness with a little allspice alochol, the alcohol is subtle and nicely warming, and a dryish tartly sweet cherry fruity finish. A decent cherry ale, would make a dessert beer with dark chocolate, something I would only want every great once in awhile.

Served it at room temperature, as advised. Probably a good move. Poured a nice red color and that’s about all for appearance: no head, no lacing, no carbonation. Just dead red, that’s it. The aroma was of cherries and some funky spices. The flavor was rich cherries, somewhat tart and sweet at the same time, syrupy sweet (cough syrup parallels?), and spiced with cinnamon and cloves. After hearing there was ginger in there, I concurred, but didn’t pick it up on my own. The white pepper was hard to detect even after reading of its presence and then heading to the cupboards to find out what in the heck it was. Either way, syrupy and sticky mouthfeel and too flat. An interesting experience, but not worth the price.