Chapeau Abricot

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Tasted 27/06/2005. 250ml bottle from Rumble’s, Wellington. Yellow gold with a tight white head that is small and slowly disappears. Bubbles hang in the glass giving a rather still appearance. Apiricots, sugar, a little sourness and a hint of the apricot stone all on the nose. Sweet with a very mild bitterness, almost like you’re sucking the apricot stone. A touch of sourness in the sweet finish. Light-med mouthfeel with a strange tartness at the back that irritates the back of the nasal passage slightly. Another desert beer, OK this time.

(Bottle 25 cl) It’s really either/or with the De Troch fruitbeers. Some are fresh and delicious - others are stickingly sweet and then there are those completely awful. This belongs in the last category. Amber coloured with only a small head. Tart, synthetic and artificial flavors - this really is foul. Not a beer to drink for pleasure. 210598

Apricot aroma, but also yeast and some barnyard, lambic weirdness. Dark orange, cloudy. Very sweet, with lots of apricot, some sugar, and a light, strange lambic flavor. This beer lacks complexity but what is there is pleasant.

12.7 oz green bottle. pours a clear golden with no head. aroma is slightly sour and sweet definate apricot. taste is pixy stix with apricot flavoring. way too sweet. it does have a sour lemony taste that isn’t too bad. just shy of a drain pour.

Awful disgusting artifiacial sweetener nose with apricot extract. Alcopop of little substance.

Like all Chapeaus, corked, then crowned, in a green 12.7 0z bottle. Appearance: clear, bright apricotty hue, bubbling with carbonation, and a brief white head atop. Aroma: a bit thin, but full of apricot. With De Troch, there’s no fooling around, what you see on the label, fruit-wise, is what you’re gonna get. Straight up, no fooling. On the palate: very mellow, very light, though tingly with carbonation. Only a touch of tart occasionally intrudes. Flavor is excellent, light sweet, fruity. Perfect dessert beer, made for coolin’ out after piggin’ out!

Light apricot aroma but mainly too sweet. Dull amber hazy with white head. Watery with soft carbonation. Weak fruity watery lambic, not much apricot flavor. Fake sweet cereal after.

Orange with no head? Is this a beer? Really it looks more like McDonalds Orange drink to me. It’s sweet and smooth and certainly tastes of apricot but not really the dominant taste. Moreso honeyish. Maybe I got a really good bottle compared to others?