Chapeau Tropical
(Batch of Chapeau Banana)
Brouwerij De Troch in Wambeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.39
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
From old tasting notes. Hazy yellow gold color. Sweet perfumy banana aroma. Intensely sweet banana flavor with yeasty overtones. Yes we have more bananas.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2017
at 22:01
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Again a weird concoction by De Troch, this time banana-flavored (and the only lambic-based fruit beer with banana apart from the closely related Chapeau Banana, as far as I know). Thin, off-white head, dirty yellow blonde colour; aroma and taste one-sidedly dominated by banana, cloyingly sweet, lambic hardly noticeable. Totally bizarre but I can understand there is an audience for this kind of ’beer’. Fortunately I kind of like banana flavour so this suited me better than the peach, mirabelle or lemon versions.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2014
at 06:05
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Clear golden colour, slight white head. Oxidised aroma, glue, banana and sweetener. Sweet flavour, banana, light malts, sugar. Finish banana, oxidation, sweet banana. Though the oxidation in itself isn’t bad, it isn’t really a good beer. Well, it was gathering dust in my cellar, and it is a rare lambic tick, so might as well share it, right?
(From 25cL bottle shared @ decadent symmetry tasting, Wilrijk. BB 2007)
(From 25cL bottle shared @ decadent symmetry tasting, Wilrijk. BB 2007)
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2013
at 07:53
3.3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle sampled @ decadent symmetry tasting. Drink by 2006. Pale gold with horrible black floaties! Nose of oxidized banana syrup and vinegar. Nasty. Sweet, syrupy fruit flavor, vinegar and oxidation, like a banana and pineapple salad dressing. Anything for a rare lambic tick…?
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2013
at 05:16
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5
Courtesy of Martinus. 33 cl. bottle sampled @ decadent symmetry tasting. BBF 11/2006, so what 2003 Vintage presumably? Appearance is amber, orange with no head, lots of dark brown UFO”s floating akin to wood chunks. Nose is very sweet, oxidized akin to a good way in a BE beer but only combined with a sickengly sweet banana smell, white sugar concentrate & sherry, very, very weird. Taste is huge white sugar, slight corn, big banana, huge candy, white sugar, syrupy,.. Flat, hint syrupy body. Man this is beyond weird, very hard to drink a lot of, I understand why even these guys took this one of the market.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2013
at 15:24
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle 25 cl) Comes as "Chapeau Tropical" at 3% ABV. Another bizarre fruit beer from De Troch, so far the pineapple beer has been the most weird, but this comes a close second. Hazy yellow, not much head. Weak body, sweetish. Banana flavour is present but not overpowering. More soda pop than beer, but not really unpleasant though. 260499
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2005
at 11:48