Chapeau Mirabelle

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

From bottle. Pours a cloudy dark orange with bubbly head. Nose is very sweet, plums and other fruits. Not much else. Flavor is slightly sour and tart, which is needed to cut through all the fruity sweetness. Plum does kind of grow on you. Mouthfeel was nicely carbonated. This is a decent dessert beverage, but is too sweet otherwise.

Opaque buff with minimal head. Sour vinegar and armpit aroma. Very sweet and cloying with a dirty finish. Lingering acidity. Interesting but not immediately appealing. The mild plum flavor kinda grows on you.

Bottle at home. Hazy orange with a little white head, yeast on the surface, ok lacings. Aroma heavy fruity. Flavor heavy sweet, moderate acidic. Light body, watery, soft carbonated. I really like it!

Bottle (Utobeer): Aroma of citrus, rotting plums and apple juice. Hazy peach in colour with a short white head. Sweet plums, musty sour grapes and a citric finish. Slightly sour but mostly just musty and boring.

I wasn’t sure about a plum "lambic" but not bad. Very fruity aroma and flavor. a little too sweet but still refreshing and very drinkable. This fruit choice worked for them.

12 oz bottle from Blue Max in Burnsville, MN (Dec 2005), undated but both label and cork have seen better days, poured at cellar temperature into a Lindemans glass. Dirty, gauzy yellow-gold with some lasting bubble action, moderate slow-receding white head....nose is really unpleasant, rotting old dried fruits in the sun, plastic, cheap powdery sugars and just the faintest hint of barnyardy yeast; its really difficult to force myself to drink this without retching.....wow, unbelievably it’s almost as bad to taste as to smell, initially more rotting, overripe and syrupy juices which just wrack the tongue....eventually giving way to a slightly soothing faint sourness and a touch of metallic edge that seems like welcome relief....low carbonation for the style, sticky and syrupy. The worst "lambic" I’ve ever had, easily.

Bottle... Murky, golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. The nose is of over-ripe (two days gone) plum, barnyard and wood. The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately tart, fruity and woodsy. Medium-bodied and creamy with lively carbonation. Finishes sweet and tangy. Too sweet? Perhaps. Fortified with additional sugar and extract to eliminate what should be an eye-winking sourness? Probably. But, I dig it!

Bottle. Pours hazy orange\gold with a very thin white head. Aroma of sugar, citrus, fruit, and yeast. Flavor is overly sweet, plums, sugar, and citrusy sour notes. Nothing good here.