Chapeau Mirabelle

Bottled. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is vanilla, sugar, fruits and some sour notes. Flavour is sugary sweet fruits and that’d pretty much it.

250ml bottle. Hazy orange beer with a small white head. Aroma is sweet fruit and lots of lemon. Flavor is just sweet lemon, like lemon juice. Not much of a beer, but really refreshing.

Bottle from Spechs, Houston; Nose of tartness, yeast, and sweet fruit; hazy yellow with a small white head; flavor of sweet apples, munkuni (green) plums, and grapes. Too sweet! Smells like there is some tartness, but none shows up in the taste.

Bottled 25cl, alc. 3.5% (BB 03/2007)
Hazy orange color, not much head. Sourish flavor of sugared plums. Medium-bodied, almost flat. Starts really sugary, then more or less artifical flavor of plum and sourness of balsamico. Sugar bomb...

(Bottle 25 cl) Just what I’ve always been dreaming of: a beer made with juice from cherry plums.... Hazy yellow with an absent head, rather flat with a cloyingly sweetness. Yes, it does taste like fruit, and perhaps even cherry plums. But this is more pop than beer. 310797

Undated bottle. Label seems faded and dry, and the cork was wet on top. As I removed the cork, there was no pop. The pour was mostly still. Aroma of light table sugar, a bit of sweet plums and raisins. Some dry oak mixed with syrupy pils malt and more residual candi-like sugar. There is a distinct tartness in the nose, and for that I’m happy. Some redeeming lambic quality at least, though it is mostly restrained and easygoing. It appears a murky, lifeless, green-yellow-brown, with no head and only a smattering of bubbles. Flavor is sweet at first, with some corky/yeasty funk, quickly moving in to dry, oaky wood and light sugar. Finishes thick, sugary and gritty, like there are sugar granules in it. But for all of the sweetness, I can’t deny to being a little charmed by the plum juice flavor. Enough oak and light yeast make their way in to keep it interesting, and by the end, I am only slightly put-off by the over-sugared body. Slick, dead, still body does not create much interest, but there is a bit of action from the oak dryness. Hints of bygone carbonation are slightly noticeable.

Hazy, at the end muddy orange-yellow beer (?); fine white head, fast reducing. Artificial, nondescript fruit nose, both sweet and aggressive on the nasal epithelia. Sweet-fruity taste, like children’s sweets; particulary nasty, on the verge of nauseating.No connection with real mirabelles. Sticky, syrupy mouthfeel. Bweeugh!!