Sprecher Mbege Ale

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

This shit is bananas! B.A.N.A.N.A.S! Pours cloudy orange/brown with nearly no head. Aroma is bananas, clove, and citrus. Flavor is banana like woah! Spices and rather sweet. Pretty full mouth feel. Very good beer for the summer!

Sprecher branched out a bit from their usual European-influenced beers with Mbege Ale, an African-style banana beer. Very subdued but distinct sweet banana aroma in the nose. First sip is very refreshing in mouthfeel (beer was quite cold), banana flavors creep to the forefront. A less-sweet banana flavor appears, balancing the ale. Some grassy flavors as well. This was a very fine fruit beer; Sprecher has taken a unique style and succeeded. Try it if you can find it.

Bottle from 1FastSTi. Hazy apricot color. Malty banana aroma. The taste was malty and smooth with nice refreshing banana flavors throughout. Slightly fizzy carbonation and finish. Refreshing never the less.

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.

Semi-hazed and bright bronzy-pale yellow in color with some soda bubble lacing at the edges. Quite a unique and splendid aroma. Banana cream is ever-present, along with a caramel, lime and guava trifactor. Lemon honey with meringue intuitions meets up with something akin to stuffy tropical rain forests. Full flavor pulls through with a banana custard flavor and thickness. Heavily saturated, doughy graham makings. Papaya and pils malt shine with lemon cream coatings. Tropical tongue clasps and gummy banana saltwater taffy. Truly original. Hazelnut dust reaps an unsalted, rustic sense, finishing with caramelized wheat and crisp grain traits, with the overall agenda dedicated to bananas up through the very last drop.

Sprecher does a wonderful thing with this and the Shakporo in recognizing African brewing practices. Though I don’t like the labels at all... but oh yes, the beer. Banana notes are all over the place and expected, but there is other fruit as well. Oranges, raisins, and still a bit of light malt. Thin, but it works well with the fruity taste.

Pours a golden orange color. No head to speak of. Aroma is very interesting, smells of real ripe bananas. Sweet smelling. When it hits the tongue however, it is not sweet at all. I totally agree with the circus peanuts statement. I mean, this is that candy, in a liquid form. Not much banana to speak of at all. Finishes thin and sour. You know, Im going to give this a higher rating than it probably deserves just because I love circus peanuts, and there will be no other beer in the world to recreate this awesomeness flavor. A circus peanut flavoreed berliner weiss.

shp555’s Revenge to me for the Chapeau Banana I gifted the Atlanta Crew with. Yum Yum. i love those banana beers! (where’s the peanut butter jelly??) Fire - brewed African Style Ale. Aroma of banana candy. Flavor is light but its all banana with a hint of potassium aftertaste.