 Cornfield (4255), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
May 2, 2008
I think I’ve only had one other mangoed brew. That one was a sturdy IPA infused with the fruit and served up under the guise of a Christmas ale. This one is all about the mango. Having a hazy golden-amber body with a small white head, this has an aroma of mango. Period. It tastes of mango with a bit of apricot and a whole lot of white sugar. Drinkable, but once was enough.
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obguthr (707), Poquoson, Virginia, USA
Apr 23, 2008 Yeasty apricot aroma. Hazy golden with clinging bubbles. Solid apricot flavor which turns to peaches and oats. Strangely, this tasted more peche-like than their peche.
jgb9348 (1820), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
Mar 19, 2008 2005 Bottle, Sampled in 2008:
Hazy orange coloured body with a nice thin off-white head. Aroma of apricots, mangoes, apples, pears and even some passion fruit. Medium-bodied; Great sweet fruity flavour shows well up front with some light malt and wheat behind with a tiny amount of alcohol noticeable too. Aftertaste shows a lot of sweet fruit with very little else. More of a fruit beer than a lambic by all senses, but definitely nice to try. Overall, worth trying if you like fruit beers or if you’ve got a girlfriend/wife that you’d like her to try the beer too! I sampled this 37.5 cL split bottle, purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 19-March-2008.
daknole (679), Plantation, Florida, USA
Mar 16, 2008 Very sweet and a bit over the top. It does pour a nice big head, but the beer is just too sweet. Mango and more mango. Sediment is also present in this beer, but in bigger chunks than I am used to.
MrRain (298), O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
Jan 29, 2008 375ml bottle poured into a flute. LdBT pours hazy yellow with a large head that reminds me of styrofoam. The fruity aroma consists of mangos mostly with a hint of peach and apricot. A very faint trace of spicy hops comes through as well. The flavor is very heavy on the mango almost like you were drinking this out of a bowl filled with mango chunks. It is cloyingly sweet and syrupy. This is a definite dessert beer and should be shared with a friend because one glass is quite enough. This was a bit too sweet for my taste but assuming that the brewer was trying for this affect it’s probaby right on.
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