Sprecher Mbege Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

The grail of all beers was found. This is the alcove offered to us by Sprecher. Pours golden hazy, no head. Aroma of industrial glue, carton. Taste, wood, smoke, tasted like old apple with some soap, and mouthwash. It just doesn’t have anything appealing. While I appreciate the effort to try an African recipe, this beverage is just awful to drink.

Damn! Now that I’ve had this mess from some hateful bastard at the tasting what do I do with the curse-d bottle I’ve got? If you enjoy pain and understand the scale of beer yumminess extends well below the likes of a Chapeau product then this is for you. Pours hazy murky light mud with micro thin head. The aroma is fresh plastic appliance stored in a dusty cardboard box. OK, this is where the crazies are separated from the insane. Why go further and drink something that smells this bad? Well, for one thing, you won’t know where the bottom is until you’ve tasted this. The taste is earthy, gravel, cardboard, plastic apples, chemicals, faint yeast and spice. I can’t go on . . .

Thanks Tony for the share. Wow. This beer is the stuff of legend. Try it and tell me what you think. Absolutely the best African-style lager I have had. Unforgettable. In every way. No matter how hard I try. Aroma resembles some banana and sweetness with some rubber. Flavor is remarkably similar with a mess of sweet and rubbery coming at me.

Bottle as shown. Pours a cloudy copper with a medium frothy off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is a sweet fruit with honey and caramel. Decent spotty lacing on the glass. The taste is also sweet fruit with banana and apple. The fruit taste overpowers the beer making it difficult to drink, not too much going on with this one.

Tap at Beachwood. Not the notoriety level of beer I came in to have, but it seems underrated. An interesting follow to La Folie, and I think the rather Flemish quality of the body became apparent as a result. The bananas imparted a round, funky sweetness which didn’t resemble bananas I have tasted. Smooth and light colored.

Poured a murky amber with a large, active off-white head that leaves very little lacing. Aroma is very fruity, clove, lemon, banana, cider. First impression in the mouth is very positive. Spiced fruits, mango, banana, apple cider. The positive impression doesn’t last to the end of the glass. The yeastiness on the front becomes somewhat of bandaid, and rubbery on the finish. The off-flavors were there at the beginning, but somehow harmonized with the fruit and weren’t a flaw. Somewhere along the glass, the fruits fade and the flaws emerge. Medium body, sharp palate. Definitely a mixed bag.

on draft at Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach, CA The bartender gave several folks samples. Most of us felt like this was a banana cider. The only person who liked a lot was a lady that was usually a chardonnay drinker, not a beer drinker. For me, it was OK at best

Bottle courtesy of Tony at Oldsmar Tap House. Pours a caramel hazy color with thin white head. Little retention or lacing. Aroma is paint thinner, green banana, eraser, band-aid. Flavor is sweet apple juice, banana, band-aid, soap, cider. Medium body with a quick, tart finish.