Chapeau Lemon
A lemon Lambic.
2.3
193 reviews
Wambeek, Belgium
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Bottle from Terre de Boissons Calais and drunk at home. Clear gold lasting white head. Bleachy lemon aroma. Sour flavour in the mouth. Wow that’s quite lemon curd with a slash of sourness in the middle of it. I mean that’s completely caught me off guard. It’s properly sour. Don’t like the aroma, but the rest is lemony sweet and sour. Weirdly lovely.
Bottle from notes. Pours a slightly hazy yellow gold color with a small to medium whitish, fizzy head. The aroma and flavor had tart sour lemon, citrus, some acidity, thinner, almost like old lemonade, not again.
Light yellow with almost no head. Sour lambic aroma. Sour lambic taste with lemon acidness, some sweetness around.
Bottle from Salling. Dirty bronze pour with a frothy head. Lemon sweets, some light funk, syrup, orange peel. This is all over the place and not particularly good.
Botella de 25 cl, en Cerveceria Internacional. Color dorado. Sabor a zumo de limon, acido.
Another eccentric Chapeau thing, this time with lemon juice (and of course, lots of sugar). Thin but stable, cream white head, colour orange blonde, misty. Aroma strangely combines lemon juice with subdued hay-like lambic and a honeyish sugar accent. Soft sweetish onset, lightly sugary, followed by a sharp tingling lemon sourness, some sweet barley noticeable in the middle, finishing dryishly sour and thin. Weird as always in this range, but at least original.
Te zuur en te hard namaak voor mij, je proeft niets natuurlijks, enkel artificieel
Geel bier zonder schuim. Smaak is zuur en chemisch. Lijkt niet op lambiek en evenmin is citroen te ontdekken. Misschien iets voor de liefhebber, echter niet voor mij. Etiket is inmiddels veranderd.
25cl bottle thanks to allmyvinyl.
Appearance - slightly hazy and golden with a thin head.
Nose - lemon balm with lemon zest coming behind.
Taste - like drinking straight lemon juice with no beer flavours evident at all.
Palate - light to medium bodied with a bitter middle and end.
Overall - this one wasn’t as sweet as the others, obviously because of the fact it was a bitter fruit. However, it was just like literally sucking a lemon so no complexity at all.
250ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold, thin white head. Light lemon aromas, but a big sour lemon taste. Near-drain pour material. Jings.
Bottle from « Au comptoir de la bière" - Callian.
Very short white head with some very light lime and cider flavor. Clear yellow body. Extremely bitter taste underlined with lots of lemon acidity. Only drinkable with lemon seasoned courses.
Botte from Beers of Europe. It pours hazy golden with a small bubbly white head. The nose is sweet, sugary lemonade, tangy, candied peel and faint sherbet. The taste is tangy lemon, white sugar, lemonade, a touch of acidity, wood and cheap lemon sherbets with a short finish. Light body and fine carbonation. One of the better Chapeau fruit beer s to be honest. There is a bit of acidity to carry some of that crazy sweetness. Not great, but a step about the banana/apricot!
Bottle (250 ml). Shared by JulienHuxley, thanks! Slightly hazy golden/orange with a small ring of white foam and little lacing. Aroma is of "Pine Sol" with hints of ginger. Taste is of lemongrass, citric notes and light ginger presence. Medium body. Agressive carbonation. Citric finish. Again, not much lambic in there.
Bottle. Nice clear gold pour with thin white head. Aroma is really lemony, citrus rind, citronella, pinesol, soapy. Taste is lemony, tart, ginger like spicy flavor, soapy. Palate is light but aggressively carbed. Ouf... pretty far of the OWA yuzu as far as citrus lambics go...
From bottle in Belgian brasserie, Budapest . Great sour lemon, low carbonation. A very refreshing low abv beer
250 ml bottle. BB 21/02/15. From belgianbeerfactory.com.
Clear deep golden colour with a tiny white head.
Fruit tea, bitterness, birch leaves and malt in the aroma.
The flavour is tart and sour with lemon, some sweetness and mild maltiness. No bad - no good.
Shared with Wim at his home. Clear goldblond colored beer with small white head and medium carbonation. Lemon herby aroma. Medium sparkling palate. Medium sparkling palate. Finish is sour sweet citron like.
at my home with Yves golden blonde colored sparkling body with a white head and a fruity lemon hop aroma a fruity lemon taste with a little bitter finish
Flasche. - Goldgelb, wenig Schaum. In der Nase etwas „chemischer“ Zitronenduft, der an Vitamin-C-Brausetabletten erinnert, leichte Lambicnote. Im Antrunk dann kräftiger, sehr natürlicher Zitronengeschmack (enthält lt. Etikett immerhin 20 %! Zitrone!). Süßsauer aber nicht zu sauer (enthält auch reichlich Zucker). Eine angenehm herbe Lambic-Note mit leichter Schärfe gleicht den süßsaueren Ansturm auf die Geschmacksknospen aus und macht dieses Getränk zu einer interessanten Geschmackserfahrung. - Sicher kein „richtiges“ Lambic, aber auf seine Art durchaus lecker, wenn es mal was Fruchtiges sein soll.
250 ml bottle, from Voldby Købmandsgaard. ABV is 3.5%. Sampled half a year past BB date. Deep golden colour, moderate white head. Aroma of "unfresh" malts and lemons. Sour and sweet flavour of lemons and more lemons, some malts in the background. Must be a nice summer refreshment, when fresh.
Bottle @ home. Clear golden yellow, small white head that quickly disappear, some lacing. Aroma, sour, lemon, fruity, a sweetness, grass, hay. Taste, sour, lemon juice, fruity, grass, hay. Sour lemon aftertaste.
Bottle. Clear yellow color. Lemony fresh aroma. Taste of LEMON and ...ehh ...lemon. There's absolutely alcohol here but it feels mostly like a good lemony cider. Not really beer-y but very easily drinkable and good.
250ml Bottle. I had high hopes for this lambic - maybe that was unfair. It pours as flat as a crepe. No head at all with a slightly cloudy amber body. Its aroma is biscuit malts followed up with an artificial citrus smell. The combination isnt great and it has to be said it smells of lemon flash floor cleaner. Taste is a little better. you get a faint hint of malts, then cheap lemonade, then a hint og biscuit and more lemons with a VERY sour tart end (vaguely similar to a value or mainstream cider brand) that just does not go away. Ok in a 25cl bottle but I dont think Id finish a 330ml bottle. But it is strangely drinkable no matter hour sour it is.. in a similar way to keep asking that gorgeous woman to dance only to be rejected time after time.
Clear golden colour, no head. Aroma of citrus, lemonade, lightest hint of funk. Sour flavour, lemon juice, citric acid. Light hint of sweetness, like lemonade, but not overly so. Sour lemony finish. Very enjoyable in warm weather, which it just so happens to be today. Exactly what a thirsty man needs, a sour and refreshing sodapop beer.
(From 25cL bottle @ home)
From bottle @Brouwerij De Troch. Brass colored body. A ring of blond bubbles on top. Lemon zesty and acidic. Sweet backbone. Very light body.
Sappy acidic lemon finish. [Toer de Gueuze 2013]
Tasting glass from 375 ml. bottle @ the brewery during Tour de Geuze. Pours a clear bright golden, head is interesting, oddly quickly gone,… Nose is all artificial, citric acid which they use in soda’s, cheap lemon lemonade,… Taste is similar citric acid from coca-cola style beverage dominates, actually making this sour albeit not in a sour beer kind of way, near industrial cleaning agent,… Carbonation is not that. I have had their unblended lambic & you wouldn’t need to add a lot of stuff to make the old one taste like this but to make the younger ones taste like this,… you would need to add so much that you basically cannot even classify this as a beer. Not atrocious or anything but this is lemonade even if you stretch the definition of beer to the limit.
Bottle. Pours clear pale amber with no head at all. Terrible odour, reminding me of what was used in all dental clinics in Poland back in the 1990’s. Some disinfecting, pseudocitrusy detergent. Tastes like that, too, probably. Not vinous, just sickeningly sour taste, interspersed with artificial honey notes. Pray tell me, how could this ever have been classified as foodstuff? Yuck!
Bottle:
Medium to bigger lively ashy beige head that disappears very quick and leaves a headless clear darker yellow colored beer.
Aromas of citronella candle, dust, band aid, lemon sweetness, grains and cleaner.
Flavours are an unbalanced mess of lemon, lemon acidity, yeast, cheese, tart, citrus, soap, lemon grains and something light citrus cleaner a like.
Aftertaste is lots of lemon, light tart (long lasting), light citrus, light dry and a hint of citronella.
Medium carbo, sparkling sour mouthfeel, medium body and a light creamy texture.
Ok, decent enough for 3.5 ABV, but this is a strange beer, not the best aroma as well as the taste. But the tartness bites the dental enamel of your teeth, which seriously raise the score of this beer. Strange ey...
Bottle. Wow, what a concept. Hazy yellow color, medium white head. Aroma of sour lemons. Taste is similar. I’m not sure what else to expect from this one.
it tastes like a stomatology liquid. or something like that. sniff - repulsive lemon. taste - too sour, it tastes like something chemical. I’m very sorry to say this, but it’s the worst beer from Belgium I’ve ever drank.