Unibroue Quelque Chose

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

The true beauty of this beer style, is the fact you can enjoy it a number of ways. In the summer months you could drink it cold as a cocktail or aperitif. You could enjoy it at room temperature and experience it as a kriek or fruit beer, but to really enjoy this beer, it should be served hot, the authentic way. It is first and foremost a winter warmer, and one of the most delicious ones you will ever taste. Coming in at 8% abv, and brewed with lots of pale malt, and cherries, Quelque Chose should be heated to "sipping" warm from the use of a double boiler, or 45 to 60 seconds in the microwave. Quelque Chose pours to a beautiful, bright ruby color with a slight white head that fades and a soft carbonation. The nose of this beer is amazingly good with vapors of hard candy cherry aroma and waves of alcohol. The palate is lush and full with wonderful flavors of ripe cherry, with touches of cherry sourness, that play against a soft malty base. This beer finishes with more of that wonderful warming cherry character and alcohol heat, as it slides down hot, and warms the belly. This beer is the ultimate winter warmer. It is the perfect beer to have after a cold day of shoveling snow, or as a beer to sit and relax with next to a roaring fire with a good book or movie. It is marketed in corked 500ml brown bottles and retails for $8. It is a bit pricey, but I say a style like this is well worth the money.

no carbonation. reddish amber color. smells and tastes very much like pie cherries. delicious.

2002 ed at room temp. Aroma is dark and deep cherry, not sure if I like it or not, defenately different. Color is amber with a hint of red, no carbonation. Wonderful flavor of ripe sweet cherries just like they’re fresh off the vine. Long risidual sweetness that lets you enjoy each little sip to the fullest. Very delicious brew.

Bouteille de 500 ml, bu chaud et froid sur glace. Orange rougeatre foncée, pas de collet.
<P>>Version chaude.:
Arome de cerise très prsant, à cause de la chaleur, des notes d’épices intéressants. Goût de cerise pas trop sûrette, bonne sensation d’épice sucré. 8-3-7-4-17
<P>Version sur glace.:
Arome de cerise plutôt légé, un peu d’épice. Bon goût de cerise épicé, peu sûrette et bien raffréchissant. 6-3-7-4-16

Chaude. Robe rouge légèrement voilée sans mousse. Arôme de canelle, de muscade, de clou de Girofles, de cerises sûres et de miel. Saveurs de cerises, d’érable, d’épices, d’alcool, de porto et de pommes.

2002 Bottling: Pours a pinkish copper. No head what-so-ever. Aroma is cloying alcohol brandy or mead-ish, with cherry and honey, gingerbread... Flavour is brandy like as well. Fruity over-ripe cherry taste hits hard. Strange ciderish quality. Unique and worth a try.

First tasting ever.... I will taste it again at the end of 2006. I liked it, but it was not so sparkling.

2002 bottle. Clear, opulent and lucid cherry-brass in color with some big bubbles conjoining sporadically for the head. Lovely aroma of cherries, white zinfandel, brandy, almond butter frosted sugar cookies, Disaronno, ripe alcohol, pears and a hint of lees. Anticipated flavor of cherry and similar sauce drizzles over cheesecake. No detectable tart or souring connotations. Mild honey grahams and the milk that remains in what once was a bowl of Berry Cheerios. Gentle, sweet palate bond and barely any carbonation. Finish is like licking the grenadine off of the desert plate.