Unibroue Éphémère Apple

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

Pours very hazy yellow/gold with a white head. Nose is strong, complete apple and sweet banana-like layering. Flavor is similar with more bread-like components. Thin and carbonated, it’s not quite as tart as DFH’s Festina Peche. I’ll stick with other Unibroue beers.

Twelve-ounce bottle. Cloudy yellow pour, thin, white head. Nose was sour apple bubble gum. Flavor was apple, coriander, curacao, and yeast. Dry finish. Mouthfeel was nicely carbonated and refreshing. The apple flavor was not overpowering, as it was in some other apple-enhanced beers.

Pours a hazy golden yellow, with a quickly dissolving head. Aroma of lemon lime kool-aid bang on. The flavour is sour apple, wheat, spice, strange flavour of the finish. Nice foamy mouth feel, but a tad watery. All and all, not bad, but nothing special.

Draught at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy golden colour with a small creamy white head. Granny Smith apples and bubblegummy yeast in the aroma. Medium to light-bodied with notes of bubblegum, yeast, white bread and green apples. Short yeasty finish of yeast, wheat and green apples.

bottle from G&G poured into a pint glass. pours a clear, light gold, with a bubbly head. aroma is very pleasant. sweet apple, plum, sugar, cotton candy, and a little spice. flavor is refreshing with apple dominating, and some cinnamon, spice, and orange following. high carbonation makes for a light mouthfeel and easy drinking. very short lasting aftertaste. not really my thing, but a quality fruit beer.

Twelve-ounce bottle. Cloudy yellow pour, thin, white head. Nose was sour apple bubble gum. Flavor was apple, coriander, curacao, and yeast. Dry finish. Mouthfeel was nicely carbonated and refreshing. The apple flavor was not overpowering, as it was in some other apple-enhanced beers.

750mL cork top bottle shared with my younger brother (not TOO much younger, don’t worry). Pours a nice hazy straw golden, with less effervescence than I was expecting. Aroma is a nice blend of Unibroue yeast, barley and wheat malts, and the obligatory sour green apples. Smells pretty nice actually. Flavour is a tad complex, at least for a summer seasonal brew, great malt body and yeast character, a little sour tartness from the sour green apples, and with a deliciously smooth sweetness in the finish and aftertaste, with only a slightly more than subtle aspect of granny smith apples. It really grows on you as you drink more of it. An absolutely ideal summer brew, really nice stuff. 750mL just isn’t quite enough

[Bottle] Pours cloudy yellow with a good white head. Aroma is huge on green apple with a light maltiness present. Taste is also very green apple dominant with more malt and some mild bitterness. Average mouthfeel with a long finish. The green apple mixing with the grain was quite odd and really did not work that well for me.