Melbourn Brothers Apricot

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

(bottle - 12 oz) Rich amber color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is very sweet with lots of apricots and yeast. Flavor is very sweet as well. Took us by surprise with how sweet it was. Tons of sugar and apricot flavor with a lingering, syrupy aftertaste.

Can split with Curly and ScottyP at the Impromtu Woody’s Ticker Tasting. Very old bottle, at least a few years of age. Pours a near clear amber, with small ring of near white head. Aroma of an apricot cobbler, very bready. Some vinegar, but mainly a very sweet fruity lambic qualities, similar to a lindeman’s but much more balanced by the sour. Expensive, but I really enjoyed this, like a nice sour cider.

Pours a clear golden with white head. Very strong apricot aroma, tart. Very sweet, syrupy, sticky taste. Good but not my cup of tea.

Update June 2, ’08: Original review is dead on except that I got a good pour with a long lasting surface cover and some slippery ropy lacing.

Crystal clear apricot colour, poured hardly any head (white) and left only a ring. Barely any lacing too. Lots of syrupy apricots in the aroma along with some cereal. Actually, this smells just like girly cider! I’m convinced. This is a cider. Really tangy and sweet...its cider! I dropped 6 bucks for cider?? Sooo tangy! Some sourness, some yeast and not nearly enough apricot, although, maybe a soft flavour is a good way to go. What do I rate this - a 3 or a 9? Mouth feel is awsome, but is this a beer or what? All tangy aftertaste, lots of carb on the swish, a little syrupy and dry. It’s a cider. Give this to the freckled girl you brought home from the chess tournament.

WHERE’S THE BEER!?!?!?!?!?!? I know this is a fruit beer but come on you can trick your under aged Mormon girl friend into drinking this stuff, this is pure fruit punch. Looks decent enough crystal clear golden orange, with just the slightest skiff of pure white head. And I shall review the smell taste and feel in two words, fruit juice. WHERE IS THE BEER? This stuff is extremely easy drinking and refreshing but I like my beer to have a beer taste and includes when I reach for a fruit beer, it still needs some beer in it."

Orange pour. Pours like a cider, very fizzy. Over-bearing apricot aroma. The taste is just as over-bearing as the scent. Sour taste, similar to an over ripened apple juice. Quite fruity and veeeeeeeery tart!

At the tasting session by Joes. A clear golden colored beer, with a white head. The aroma is very fruity, raspberries, cherries and apricots. The taste is sparkling and fruity sweet with a little sour. Syrup like. The aftertaste is fruity sweet.

Bottle from Holiday Wine Cellar. Pours golden orange wiht a tan head. Nose is fruity with a touch of fruity apricot. Taste is sweet fruity and pleasant but nothing special.