Melbourn Brothers Strawberry

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

Bottle. Pours a deep copper red body with thin head. Aroma is of sugary strawberries. Flavor was a thick syrupy strawberry flavor, sugary, detected other fruits such as cherries being in the taste. Good mouthfeel. Made a nice dessert beer.

Bottle. Darkish cloudy orangy-red colour. Aroma like fresh strawberry jam, maltiness, little banana and sour apple. Flavour has the mouthfeel and underlying touch of beer though wothout much hoppiness. There is a lot of strawberry, which is well balanced with the malt, sweet and sour, with a good touch of apple. In the beginning it tastes like some drink for children but it matures and is quite adult and fresh in the finish. Great when served chilled on a warm summer day.

Bottle poured a clear reddish amber with a large lasting light pink head. Aromas of strawberry, light carmel and a hint of citrus. Palate was light bodied, crisp and slightly tart. Flavors of light strawberry and a hint of carmel with a crispslightly tart sweet finish.

Bottle SH Jones, Bicester, 12-05-07. Aroma of Rowntree’s strawberry jelly smelt great and reminded me of watching my mum in the kitchen pouring that boiling water over those cubes of jelly and watching them dissolve, anyway enough of that. The colour was a reddy/orange colour not as pinky red as I was expecting, there was a decent sized but fast dissappearing head but even that was whiter than I thought that it should be. Tasted very sweet but great strawberryness that just wins you over, think I will stock up on some of these as they’re easy for me to come by and maybe some of the apricot and cherry counterparts for an alternative refreshing summer tipple.

I don’t know what’s wrong with the smell of this beer, I get nothing. But it’s a nice red colour, thick white lacing head, which is surprisingly nice for this type of beer. It’s a little on the syropy side and has a very nice (and not overpowering) taste of strawberry (similar to Fruli, but less sugary and sweet). A very fine example of Lambic fruit beers.

real strawberry flavor/aroma. not too sweet and nice acidity. pairs really well with chocolate souffle. this is what care bears taste like.

Bouteille de 355 ml achetée chez Oak Tree Discount (South Plainfield, NJ). Arôme: Forte odeur de fraises sucrées. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée rougâtre avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de fraises. Courte durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de fraise légèrement acidulée en arrière goût. (Rating #965)

bottle- strong strawberry aroma, along with alcohol. I was really surprised to find out that the abv is quite low, considering what I preceived to be a strong alcohol taste and aroma. Not bad, a lot of complexity for a fruit beer.