Chapeau Exotic

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

This interested me. Pineapple lambic. Why not? I must have gotten a good bottle of it because I liked it. Poured out a murky amber with no pretense of a head. The aroma of pineapples and brown sugar. Light bodied with gentle carbonation. The flavor was sweet pineapple. It was very one-dimensional but, hey, it’s a drink. Another summer sippable.

No head, but a delicious aroma of pineapple. Not too strong and not fake. Very good presence of pineapple in the flavor. Sweet, but not too sweet. A very interesting brew.

Why do the Chapeau beers get such bad ratings? For what they are i think they are great. Has a pineapple aroma. Light brown amber color, with no head. Tastes sweet, pineapple, and a hint of oak.

25 cl bottle, ’bbe’ Nov 06. Dark amber, virtually headless. Sweet odour with pineapple and rubber. Very sweet taste with pineapple and a little bit of cinnamon. Light teasing.

The taste is not bad but the smell rapidly turns ugly. Aroma of rotten fruits. No head, no fizz, nothing. Like drinking a cocktail of your favorite candies when you were kid.

I couldn’t resist the chance to try this rare and exotic authentic lambic in the Belgian tradition!!one Straight up pineapple juice and would make an excellent marinade. A 5 for palate as it hits the ’juice’ mark right on the nose!

12.10.05 bottle, best by 1997. RLB YEHA-05. Clouded pale straw with lasting white head. Horrible combination of aromas include mint and rotten tropical fruits. Sickly sweet candy flavors with scads of pineapple candy and the dried fruit. Thanks for sharing this gem, Joe.

Sampled at the Yeha, best before 1997. Poured a cloudy pale golden with a white head. Sweet candy pineapple aroma. Taste is one-dimensional sweet pinapple, like the syrup from canned pineapple. I don’t mind sweet so I didn’t really mind this that much. Perhaps it would be better if the beer were labeled as a fruit beer rather than a lambic.