Melbourn Brothers Apricot

Brewed by Melbourn Brothers (Samuel Smith)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Stamford, England

Golden-orange with a small white head. Acidic apricot aroma with a small malt note. Tart apricot flavor with a sour finish.

Bottle: This better be worth the $5.25 for a 12oz bottle. Pours an orange color with a light white head and no lacing. The nose is fruity with light apricot and strawberry, lightly tart. The flavor is fairly tart too with a nice refreshing musky apricot flavor, lightly tart and sweet with a good balance. The finish is tangy and creamy, lots of fruit but not too much sourness or cloying character. I like it, but not near worth the price.

Poured light orange with no head. Aroma was fruity: pears, apricot, and white grapes. Flavor had a lovely tart to it at first. The tartness seemed to diminish over time once the palate adjusted. Sweet fruit flavors like a kolache. The finish is quite sweet.

Draught: Pours a hazy orange, with thin head. Obvoiusly a sweet apricot flavor, with a slightly sour finish, but not too much at all, didn’t think it was as fruity as most lambics, not bad not too sweet or fruity at all.

Pours a dark hazy orangish amber color. Aromas of apricots, malts, and bread. Flavor is wheat bread with apricot preserves on it, way to fruity for my taste. Probably the low end of the three Melbourn fruit beers.

Orange colour with a small white head. Fruity apricot sweet aroma. Very sweet and fruity flavor with a faintly tart finish.

Bottle shared with blankboy, HogTownHarry & tupalev - courtesy of HogTownHarry. Golden-orange colour with a tiny head. Aroma of sweet artifical apricot jelly, with an odd cheesy note. Flavour is uber-sweet and sticky, like cheap marmalade, and a vague bit of funkiness in the finish. Quite a disappointment considering how much I enjoyed their cherry beer.

Bottle 08/09/2001 Amber coloured and fruity. Finishes quite sharp ob the palate.