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Sprecher Mbege Ale 2.49 81

Sprecher Mbege Ale

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812.47/5.02.49/5.0Special7%31Flute
Commercial Description:
Fire-brewed African style ale, brewed with banana extract
Bananas are the main ingredient in mbege style beers popular in Eastern Africa. In keeping with tradition, this is brewed with real bananas and presented unfiltered. Light hints of banana remain present in the aroma and flavor of this unique offering
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 Palidor19 (1792), Brandon, Florida, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/102/57/20
Dec 11, 2008  
it does not have that taste that make this worthy, the aroma is nice banana, but the rest feels a bit unappealing with the some weak malts and tart like flavors. I cant recommend this one.


 nick76 (2684), Tampa, Florida, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/52/103/55/20
Dec 11, 2008  
The aroma has fruit, bananas, yeast, malt, and grain. The appearance is hazy amber with a small but persistent head. The flavor is like the aroma and not good. The palate is smooth. Overall its really strange.


 nearbeer (1868), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/510/20
Nov 30, 2008  
12 oz. Hazy, orange-amber with a lasting eighth-inch foam. Mild banana and caramel aroma. Front flavors of banana and apple cider are OK, but the harsh rum and lemon-lime finish is not. Light-medium body is tingly and dry. An extra overall point for the experimental effort.


 CharlesDarwin (1849), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/55/102/59/20
Sep 26, 2008  
16oz Bottle. Thanks Sean! Crazy nose. Pungent barleywine fruit. Phenolic, a touch rubbery and heavy on the bread yeast. It’s interesting how much this smells like really fruity yeast, but it’s probably just the banana juice. Interesting, actually. Not entirely smooth. Pours a shaded orange gold, with no head. Flavor is rather gross. Acerbic, biting, alcoholic and still full of bubblegum esters. Icky. Sweet. Rubbery. Alcoholic, needlessly at this abv. Gross. This is a disaster.


 PorterPounder (3148), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/58/20
Aug 1, 2008  
St. Petersburg, Shep’s Deli - stubby 16 oz bottle. Pours a murky dark and dank orange with absolutely no head. Aroma of overripe bananas and Carbona carpet cleaner. Slightly odd flavor - obviously a gluten free product - but the flavor nowhere approximates the flavor of beer. Some scuppernog grapes, hint of bananas and an odd, rotten fruit finish. Slightly better than the Shakporo by the same brewer - but again, thank God that my body can process whatever it is they left out of this - cause I would be in a world of hurt if this is all I could drink.


 badlizard (2380), Berkeley, California, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Jul 12, 2008  
bottle from wholefoods. Copper brown with a fizzy head. Sweet and spicy aroma. Tart taste with some strange grainy and fruity tastes that don’t really work. Didn’t care for it.


 redlight (1496), Winter Park, Florida, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/58/20
Jun 24, 2008  
Banana peels, sorghum aromas, i can definitely tell this is a glutten free beer. Pours cloudy orange with a thin white head that doesn’t last long. Fruity, citrus like flavors, very cidery and thin mouth feel. Not horrible but i like my glutten!


 phishpond417 (1953), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/513/20
Jun 6, 2008  
A very interesting beer indeed. Soft, sweet and a very tropical mouthfeel. Pours a orange body with a full fluffy white head. A wonderful aroma, tropical fruits and citrus on the nose.



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