Unibroue Éphémère Apple

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Fruit Beer
Chambly, Canada

Very delicious beer. Dark, golden yellow in appearance with an apple aroma. Sweet at first but goes down briskly with a high carbonation. Apple envelops this brew!

Bottle. Pours cloudy golden amber with a fizzy white head that disappears right away. The aroma is slight rotten fruit and a big dose of fresh green apples, including a bit of sour. The flavor is a bit light, but with just a hint of sweet apple. This doesn’t taste like apple juice or cider, it really tastes like green apples. The high fizzy carbonation reminds of soda pop.

Bottle. Pours hazy yellow/orange with a quick white head. Nose is sweet and is mainly of apples with a hint of citrus as well. Flavour is a little more complex, apples and citrus still stand out but there are also hints of malt, honey, mineral and some spice. Mouthfeel is quite dry with some tartness and a medium to long finish that’s sweet and slightly bitter. A nice fruit beer from Unibroue that is sufficiently different from a cider to make it all worthwhile.

Bottle. I know, this one looks like the Ephemere Apple. But it isn’t. I had both and this one is made of apple concentrate, not granny smith. It’s spicy, a bit of orange, unfortunatly, can’t taste the apple. Cloudy orange, very different to the other Ephemeres I had. Interesting but not sure I would replace the original with this one.
Earlier Rating: 11/1/2005 Total Score: 4.5
750ml bottle. Right in the aroma you can smell the green apples. The beer is cloudy. For flavor/palate, you get the green apple in a very good proportion with the beer. It doesn’t taste sugary or syrupy.

Bottle pours clear yellow color with white head. Aroma is granny smith apples with some yeast. Stinging mouthfeel from the high carbonation. Flavor is more granny smith apple, belgian yeast, and finishes dry. This is a light and refreshing beverage.

Sample, Mondial de la bière, savoured on June 4 2009; eye: golden, nice creamy white head, lots of effervescence, hazy; nose: apples, apples and apples, light malt; mouth: apples, apples and apples, light malt, finale in apple and is quite carbonated, mild astringency; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Échantillon, Mondial de la bière, savourée le 4 juin 2009; œil : dorée, belle mousse blanche crémeuse, très effervescente, voilée Pommes, pommes et pommes, léger malt; nez : pommes, pommes et pommes, léger malt; bouche : pommes, pommes et pommes, léger malt, finale très carbonatée en pommes, astringence moyenne; en résumé : bien

expected this to be overly sweet, but was surprised at the flavor. The green apple is up front, but you can also make out some nice malt/spice as well.

Any ale or lager made with fruit, the body, color, hop character, and strength vary depending on the type of fruit used. This is with green apple, so has a lighter appearance to it.