Melbourn Brothers Strawberry

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

Muddy brown with a white head. Aroma is strawberry girl scout cookies. The ones with the strawberry in the middle. Flavor starts off with a slight tart strawberry and finishes sweet. Some sugar cookies and bread in the flavor too. Lively carbonation.

Bottle. Quite decent, and on the sweet side of things. Some yoghurty strawberry characters, with some light refreshing acidity. Refreshing in the end, and not too bad. A decent effort, but maybe these guys shouldn’t add juice and just add real fruit for a more authetic flavour.

Pours a clear golden reddish color. Aromas of strawberries, wheat bread, and a touch of hops. Flavor is a nice balance strawberry flavor with malts and a sweet creamy finish. I’m not big on fruit beers, but this one reminded me of Smucker’s Strawberry syrup I used to put on my pancakes as a kid.

Chapeau beats this one.On the sweet side,a liitle more fruit acidity would help balance this brew.

I don’t know the year, bottle generously provided on a whim by OldGrowth on 3.4.06
Nose is strawberry jam and ripe strawberry juice, with some very faint honey and light splashes of light tart, fruit acidity. The flavor is very strong, juicy, sweet strawberry juice, with some very faint caramel-like sugars and touches of honey. But predominantly strawberry juice. Light wash of effervescent carbonation and tartness on end. No alcohol apparency or yeast apparency. Deep rosy-orange hued amber colored body, clear, with a quickly diminishing beige head, light lacing, but ultimately too filtered.

Clear reddish colour with a white head. Fruity strawberry aroma with a faint sourness. Very sweet strawberry flavor with a light tart finish.

Bottle shared with blankboy, HogTownHarry & tupalev - courtesy of blankboy. Pink-orange colour with a small white head. Aroma of strawberry candy, somewhat cloying, although there’s a bit of tartness as well. Flavour is similar - starts quite sickly sweet, but some funky tartness comes through in the middle. Still not as good as the cherry, but it didn’t offend me as much as the apricot.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry, GregClow & tupalev -- my bottle. I loved the Melbourn Brothers Cherry and disliked the Apricot so I was curious where this one would fall. Pours a clear dark amber with an average size pinkish-white head. Aroma of strawberry yogurt which I liked in a weird way. Sweet flavour of light tart strawberries along with some yeast. Palate is somewhat acidic. This was much better then the Apricot but nowhere as good as the Cherry.