Mbege Ale
Sprecher Brewing Company in Glendale, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
4.82
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andyhwcinc (2108) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
This rating is from three years ago, and it was so bad it stuck out in my memory. I just purchased the Shakparo Ale thinking it was this, but it wasn’t, and I’m glad. Three years ago I went to West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago, IL and found this in the bargain bin for $0.49 per bottle, so I bought four of them. After consuming maybe 2 sips of it, I realized just why it was in the bargain bin, because it was hands down the worst beer I’ve ever had. When trying to determine a good synopsis of what this beer tastes like, I must quote a previous rater of this when I say - It tastes like what i believe that water in the bottom of a dumpster would taste like. If I could elaborate on that rating, I would add that you’d have to soak rotten bananas in a layer of animal dung, throw it in the dumpster, wait a week or two, then drink the water in the bottom of the dumpster. Do yourself a favor and never purchase this, unless you’re a masochist. All hail the worst beer ever made!
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is some banana, fruits, mild spices as well as some slight sourness. Flavour is sour bananajuice with some slight rpicyness. Strange brew, but rather original as well.
omhper (44752) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled at Monk’s Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Muddy amber, no head. Dusty glue aroma. Sweet, yet tart, fruity with lemon, perfume and banana juice. Medium bodied with clean mouthfeel, low bitterness. Well... different...
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
16oz bottle. Before I’ve even sipped this one, I give credit to Sprecher for stylistic creativity. Hardcore rum aroma. Different to say the least. Boozy, tastes like a mix drink made with some rail liquor. Sweet and intense, with some alcohol laced fruity pungency. Not many beer qualities at all. No room for hop or grain subtleties, this is pretty much toilet booze. I’d still give an authentic Mbege a shot, but there is no way I’ll ever drink this "product " again.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
The grail of all beers was found. This is the alcove offered to us by Sprecher. Pours golden hazy, no head. Aroma of industrial glue, carton. Taste, wood, smoke, tasted like old apple with some soap, and mouthwash. It just doesn’t have anything appealing. While I appreciate the effort to try an African recipe, this beverage is just awful to drink.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Damn! Now that I’ve had this mess from some hateful bastard at the tasting what do I do with the curse-d bottle I’ve got? If you enjoy pain and understand the scale of beer yumminess extends well below the likes of a Chapeau product then this is for you. Pours hazy murky light mud with micro thin head. The aroma is fresh plastic appliance stored in a dusty cardboard box. OK, this is where the crazies are separated from the insane. Why go further and drink something that smells this bad? Well, for one thing, you won’t know where the bottom is until you’ve tasted this. The taste is earthy, gravel, cardboard, plastic apples, chemicals, faint yeast and spice. I can’t go on . . .
djd07 (28882) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle as shown. Pours a cloudy copper with a medium frothy off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is a sweet fruit with honey and caramel. Decent spotty lacing on the glass. The taste is also sweet fruit with banana and apple. The fruit taste overpowers the beer making it difficult to drink, not too much going on with this one.
JK (8181) reviewed Mbege Ale from Sprecher Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
This yellow beer has an excellent banana aroma. It seems to be real fruit rather than syrup. Lightly sweet, with an off banana flavor. This beer smells much better than it tastes, but the banana flavor isn’t terrible. Thanks to Skyview for sharing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at the HDG, pured into a goblet head. The small head that appears from the bottle very quickly fades into nothingness. Making the orange very clear but not totally lucid beer seem very still. Aroma is very strong of very ripe tropical fruits, sweet bubblegem, and of course banana. All very nice smells but its missing a few thing... no aromas of malt, barley or anything beer related. Taste is all fruit soda/guarana. It came out as a great carbonated fruit extract soda but its barely recognizable as beer. Its very similar to AB’s B to the E but more tropical fruit. I am torn a bit cause I like the fruit flavors but its not beer. But the longer I drink it the more the sweetness because nausating, couldn’t even finish the beer.