Melbourn Brothers Apricot

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

Reminds me too much of a garbage disposal to rate any higher. Very syrupy on the tongue, and a sour sweetness (mixed with the aroma of a garbage can) is in the finish. It’s not terrible, but I don’t think I’ll have another.

12 oz bottle - Whole Foods, Austin, Tx. Pours a syrupy dark golden - looks like a mead, little to no head. Aroma has a wine-like essence to it with an underlying aroma of apricots of course. Flavor has a delectable sourness to it contrasting with the sweet fruitiness of the apricots. Mouthfeel is slightly sticky, just right. Would be good for a dessert beer with some pound cake perhaps.

(Bottle) Pours a copper body with a small bubbly head (similar to apple juice). Apricot aroma. Sweet apricot flavor, but nothing exciting.

(on bottle)Very swwet sent of abricot, right on, but quite industrial to me. A creamy mouthfeel and not that synthetic, in facy; nice. Litte hogh carbonated, even for a fruity-trudy.

this is clearly syrup mixed into a decent beer. Peachy ornage colour. Its syrupy sweet. Nice UK stylebottle and label. Medium mouthfeel, drying aftertaste. Thanks Doug Shoemaker, at Chester’s in Hamilton.

Bottle. Very, very clear straw body with minimal head. Lots of bubbles clinging to the side of the glass. Nose is kinda sour like a clean barn. Nice sharp sour/tart flavor up front. Apricot dominates the flavor profile. The sourness is not over the top, but is quite nice. It is a good compliment to the sweet apricot. One major flaw is the finish. There is a taste on the finish that is kind of unpleasant. The only thing that I can think to compare it to is the taste that you get in the back of your throat after you have vomited, even though you brushed your teeth three times.

Pale golden color, very peachy, shall I say, apricotty..with a short, thin ordinary head... Aroma: mellow, and apricotty, slightly sour, a touch sweet, like I said, apricotty... sweet and sour, like a jolly rancher...yum, yum, and yum, yummy,yumalicious....tasty....you’d just have to be the sort of folk that gets moved by an apricot jolly rancher, like I may be...a bit sweet, or is it too tart? Nah, who cares, I like it, that’s all that matters...this is super-nice, the best fruit beer that doesn’t come out of Belgium!

Bottled. This was an horrendous experience. Whether the bottle was bad I really don’t know, it was still in date sowho knows? The aroma was of rotting apples, dustbins and nursing homes (you know what I mean!). Colour was a flat looking apple juice appearance (slightly orange as well). Taste was sooo sweet, sulphuric, rotten and really nasty. Total drainpour. I will NOT buy another bottle but would be willing to try someone else’s to see if mine was wrong.