Chapeau Lemon

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

No head on a dark golden body. The le,on is obvious, both in the aroma and in the taste. Straight from the bottle, it feels very bitter, but I can imagine it would be super in a ummer drink, with lots of ice.

Another example of a waste of water and malt. Horrible sickeningly sweet and artificial nose and palate on this draincleaner.

Liquid evil, meet glass. Glass, meet liquid evil. Golden copper with unpleasant chunkiness. Huge whiff of musty, rotting lemons in the nose. Truly awful flavor, sickening explosion of lemon and sour, plus sweetness and a crappy undertone of musty lambic-ness. Nasty cloying stuff, sweet and syrupy. This beer does for lambics what proctology does for fine French cuisine.

Massive chunks of yeast suspended in a gold liquid that smells like moldy lemons. This is starting off well. Insert dripping sarcasm smiley here. THe flavor is well, sweet and lemony. This is what cellared lemonade must taste like. There is some mustiness behind the massive sour and sweet front. Puckering but sweet. Very bizarre, though not hideous.

Dark golden, honeyish colour with faint olive shine; whiteish head, gone in secs. Adstringent nose, lemony, but as from those yellow plastic vials sold as lemonjuice substitute. Afterwards glue and a particular kind of thick-skinned yellow grapes. Again artificial lemony onset in the taste, then horseblanket for a couple of seconds. Then the mouth dries out at an alarming rate. "Tart" even doesn’t come close. Behind that, some artificial sweetness, overwhelmed. Tart, tart, tart. Dry-out effect, adstringent. Lambid + lemon. Bound to clash somewhere. Lemonsquash².

Rich amber colour with large yeasties floating around. Light carbonation. Aroma is sour, spicy, with some gingery notes, light lemon and a slight medicinal quality. Musty and dusty almost gin-like quality. Very tart on the front with fruity flavours of lemon, cherry, and honey. Dusty in the middle with a fairly sweetish finish. Decent complexity and actually pretty tasty. I’m surprised it rates so low.

Golden color, medium sour lemon aroma, sour artificial lemon taste, light body, sour finish.

Appearance: clear, pale, dull orange color, with a small, disappearing head. Aroma: sour, citric, all-out lemony, plus orange peels, hard candy, jolly ranchers, and sugar, sugar, sugar. Bracingly sour at first, puckering to the extreme, slowly cooling down. Great texture, light body, and low in most beery qualities. But, as a light, tasty aperitif, it does the trick. If you love lemons, and feel like something tasty to settle you after a rich repast, go no further.