Chapeau Mirabelle

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

Date: May 23, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ticker Tasting
Appearance: hazy orange, wispy white head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma with a light tartness, touch of fusel alcohol
Flavor: sweet and fruity flavor, balancing tartness is not enough for the sticky candy sweetness
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: *+/4

Bottle: Hazy golden pour with a white fading film of head. Sugary aroma- some papery old character with cork notes and some citric plummy notes and mold. Slick feel with a sweet flavor. Plummy indeed with a sugary sweetness dominating. Some mild citric character- astringent on the throat. Light cork notes come through all the sweetness which saves it a bit.. Papery finish. Typical overly sweet Fruit-Lambic.

25cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, not complex sweet fruit brew, not balanced, hazy, nearly no head, nothing special

12oz bottle from Total Wine (Tampa, FL). Pours a clear apple cider color with virtually no head. Aroma is strange -- notes of vinegar, yeast, wood, toxic floor cleaner. Flavor is much better than the nose -- generally syrupy and sweet with notes of wood, candy sugar, ripe fresh fruit, plum nectar, caramel and honey sweetness. Generally medium body with a pleasant sweet syrupy finish.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a golden body with random, spotty lacing and no head. The nose is sour with notes of yeast and subtle vinegar. Flavors include plum and apple. Very juice-like in mouthfeel from a lack of carbonation. The body is very thin as well. Not much to speak of here.

hazy golden amber coloured body with a little white head a sweet fruity aroma a sweet fruity little sourig taste with a sweet fruity finish

Bottle @ Maria tasting. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is artificial plum. Flavour is sweet, artificial plum, sugar. Sugarish fruit beer.

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. Clear, golden beer with a tiny, tiny white head. Sweetish, slightly fruity aroma. Not much sourness or other lambic qualities. A little sourness in the flavor, mostly fruitysour though, but most of all it’s sugary sweetness. Sticky, slightly astringent medium body and a lasting sour and sweet finish. A really boring beer that can only be drank in small quantities to avoid sugar rush. (080412)