Melbourn Brothers Strawberry

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

Bottle from AJ’s Fine Foods - Pours a slightly hazy reddish-pink color with a small light pink head. Aroma is a tart strawberry. Flavor is a semi-sweet, but tart strawberry. Light lingering berry after taste. Light body. Well carbonated. A decent fruit beer.

aroma of u guessed it Strawberry, looks almost orange, some sourness, with great big amounts of strawberry, decnt beer, luckily not too sweet, like most fruit beers, these guys do understand the concept of a fruit beer.

Poured from bottle. Very nice reddish color, no head. Smell is OVERWHELMING strawberries the minute the bottle was opened...The taste was ALL strawberry and only strawberry. It was a neat beer, and I can see why people like it, but to me, it was like drinking a wine cooler...Too sweet and strawberry-ish for me.

Pours reddish amber, ith the emphasis on the red. A thin layer of pink (yes, pink) foam tops it off. Very effervescent. Smells a strong sweet strawberry, similar to Faygo Redpop if you have ever tried that, though a tad more natural in the scent. Tastes somewhere between a strawberry wine cooler and a lambic. There’s enough beer flavor there to know it isn’t a wine cooler, however. A bit shy in the sourness department to compare it to a lambic. Or to a brewpub psuedo-lambic, for that matter.

From bottle. Poured cloudy orange, thick 1-inch head. Nice lacing left on the glass. Aroma is fruity, over powering artificial strawberry. Flavor is a little sour, malt, and of course strawberry. Taste artificial. light to medium bodied.

The body is a very light red/orange that is only slightly hazy. The head is a thumb thick, white and diminishing. <P> Aroma is artificial strawberry...very hard candy smelling..mild sour funk, green apple, and overripe orange. <P> Very sweet, cloying really, in the fore and crisp with carbonation, but that gives way to a funky, lightly tart and sour flavor that is actually very nice. The sweetness can be a bit much at times, but the little bit of sour and a full malt flavor with a twinge of funk and overripe fruits give this some nuance I did not expect. The finish is very sacharine tasting and artificial, but there are some other strong components to the flavor.

Cloudy brown color. Smell of Strawberries, blueberries, apple cider, church wine, hops, malt, and sourness. Taste of strawberries, sour, sugar, prunes, tart apples, hops, minor malt and a flat bitterness at the end. Very powerful in the strawberry and sour category. Would be a nice breakfast beer.

Bottle. Poured reddish color with an average frothy off-white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate sweet strawberry aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium sweet strawberry flavor with a medium sour and sweet finish of moderate duration. Sweet refreshing brew.