Lindemans Apple (Pomme)

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Since I’m rating beer here, my girlfriend wants to try out some different drinks as well. Went to the beer store today and bought her some lambics. She loves this one already. Pours golden yellow with a small, quickly dissipating head. Aroma of apples (how surprising), but with a bit of yeast and some grains. Tastes sour, sweet and almost like champagne, well made fruit beer. Long finish of apples, apples, appl.....

poured cloudy golden with decent head that faded quickly to give good lacing. smells like apple jolly rancher. tastes very sweet and tart. not bad better than the framboise

Serving date: 2009-01-23. Served in snifter. Presentation: 250 ml foiled bottle with freshness date on label (Best before 2010-10-29). I almost expected this one to be green, considering the looks of the bottle... On o more serious note, it’s bright orange, almost yellow, and very hazy. A decent two fingered white head settles into a nice long-lasting coat of foam and leaves some fragmentary lacings. In the nose, there’s apples, apples, apples, and maybe a hint of artificial sweetener and sour aromas. Although the smell of apples can be quite nice and refreshing, this one is not. It mainly smells synthetic and candy-like. If I would use one term to describe the smell of this one, it would be sweet and sour soft apple candy. Even though it’s kind of a unique smell, considering it’s a beer, it’s not that not pleasant. A very prominent taste of apples up front... no surprises there. The synthetic character is played down a bit in the taste, but it’s still there and the beer still tastes very much as apple candy. It’s reminiscent of sweet apple cider. It’s very sweet at first, then a slight sourness and some faint malty flavors take over for a little while. This is actually not a very pleasant part of the taste, since the faint malt flavor mixes badly with the overly sweet taste of apples. The finish is primarily sour, but also a bit tart and sweet. Again, the taste of sweet and sour soft apple candy appears. The sourness definitely adds to the brew and makes for a pleasant aspect of its overall profile. But after a while, it feels like I’ve eaten to much candy. The mouthfeel is actually quite good. It’s medium-bodied with rather lively bubbles, that go well with the sweet and sour taste. All in all, It’s a bit hard to review this one. As a beer, it’s rather unique since it tastes more like apple juice or apple cider. As an apple beverage, it’s quite good, and if I would be in the mood for something sweet, like cider, I would definitely choose this one over most ciders I’ve tried. (But one bottle of it would be enough though for one night - it’s too sickly-sweet for a second.) However, if I’m in the mood for beer, I would probably choose something else. It’s nice for a change, I guess. As a last comment, I must say that I really would have liked to see this one without the artificial sweetener and fruit juice. Although, I’m a layman when it comes to brewing lambics, but I think it would have been nicer if they would have stuck to the actual fruits. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)

Flaske 0,25l delt med Rune på Bistro Trägårn, Kiruna 29 Okt 09. Uklart. Høyt luftig skum. God eplearoma. Smaken er som å drikke eplesaft. Søtlig avslutning. Lite som minner om øl. Ligner mer en cider.

Poured into a flute. The color of the beer was golden and had a small head. Aromas of green apples. Initial flavor of green apples and the palate of bubbly, ending with a sour taste. I liked it better than the famous framboise.

250ml bottle as Lindemans Apple 4% abv. at Trägårn, Kiruna. Cloudy, orange coloured body. Low, bubbly head. Fragile lacework. Smell of green apples. Sweet flavour of ripe apples coupled with spices. Farewell hints of acidity. Alright as a dessert after dinner at the bistro (shared with Finn, 29.10.2009).

How’d it look? Not too great. It poured our a generic golden color but it had a slight green tint to it and it was a tad cloudy. It produced a nice film, but no head. The smell was great though - just like a sour green apple drink. Personally, I think this should be a girl’s drink. There was also a slight alcohol scent. It tasted just like we expected - amazing. It tastes just like sour green apple flavoring and there’s almost no beer taste. You could get sufficiently buzzed without knowing it with this beer. It was pretty smooth, although it had no body. There was also a nice fizz that followed the sour taste.

Pours greenish yellow in color with a nice robust off-white head. It, of course, smells like green apples - in a way you would expect from a good cider. The taste is strong, sour green apples, slight alcohol sting, and other sweet fruits in the background.