Unibroue Quelque Chose

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

20 Aug 2006 - BIg sweet cherry, with distinct cinnamon aroma. Deep red-brown colour, low-low head and awful lacing. Rich cinnamon and cherry sweet but lacks complexity, more of a syrup. Sweet spicy tangy finish.

Vintage 2002 Limited Edition 500ml cork & wire: Poured at room temperature. Beautiful hazy deep red color with no head. The aroma is huge fresh cherries (duh), slight hints of oxidation, musty, nutty and some woods notes. Amazing flavor. Slightly viscous in the early sweetness. Obviously huge cherry flavors slap you, but there’s a lot more going on. It has a port like richness, but the drinkability of a Witbier. Light woody notes and a late cinnamon hint. The alcohol is completely hidden. The finish has a beautiful almondy smoothness. Delicious and rich, yet extremely drinkable. A great quality Fruit Beer.

500ml bottle. 2002 vintage. Aroma: Strong cherry aroma. A bit of a medicinal smell makes it smell like cough syrup. Some spicy cinnamon and allspice. Appearance: Reddish-copper in color and clear. No pop when the cork came out. Almost no carbonation left in this beer. No head or lacing. Flavor: Nice tart cherry flavor. Strong cinnamon/allspice/clove. Some brown sugar and what tastes like a hint of mint into the finish. Some nice sourness throughout. Palate: Medium bodied. No carbonation. Overall: This suffered due to lack of carbonation, IMO. Sweetness lingered a bit into finish and carbonation might have prevented that. Seemed a little one dimensional overall.

Probably one of the best fruit beers I have had, ever. Completely flat. I did not drink it hot, but at cellar temp. Strong cherry and clove flavors, sweet, not like much I have had before. Blows away more lambic style cherry brews, in my opinion. A special occasion beer that might be my new holiday fun time brew.

Sour cherry malt aroma. Clear red colour with no head or lacing. Sweet cherry flavour like cherry syrup. Flat palate.

had it once cold........coudlnt taste much really, it was like bad wine. had it once slightly warmer than room temperature, and wow! So many flavours come out! very spicy, notes of cinnamon, and cloves, and citrus, with a nice cherry punch and finish, very nice stuff.

Pours dark red with little to nothing of a head. This Cherry beer has a strong sweet cherry quality with a mild sour bite. But, to balance out the sweetness, there are strong qualities of allspice to make this a spectacular beer. From my experience, however, the 2002 edition had a stronger spice quality compared to the bottle I had most recently, so either the spice quality becomes less apparent, or the newer batches have a lessened spiced quality.

This really is something. Bottle dated 08/08/2002. I tried this on the rocks, and at room temperature. It also suggests to drink it mulled by putting the bottle in a double boiler but I decided to wait until next time for that. I’m sure it would have brought out the fruity aromas 100-fold. The cork from this bottle smells of cherries and cloves, and made me eager to get to drinking it. The beer itself smelled of cherries (obviously) and also of warm brown sugar mostly. The taste was a pleasant sour cherry, and very close to wine. It appeared a ruby-copper in the glass and had almost no carbonation, only a few bubbles clinging to the glass. Room temp out of a wine glass was much more enjoyable for a winter night (and mulled would be so much better, I’m sure) than having it on the rocks. In the summer though, that would be a preferable way I think. I would have this again with vanilla ice cream and fine chocolates.