Melbourn Brothers Apricot
3.2
282 reviews
Stamford, England
Community reviews
Taste and aroma are apple juice and apricots (shocking). A bit tart but not significantly so, with low acidity. Kind of a wimpy, chugable lambic. Not bad though.
Bottle. Pours an opaque copper body with a thin white head. Overly sweet with artificial apricot and peach y notes. Some light sour cider and vinegar notes. Eh.
I felt the need to eat an Atomic Warhead to balance out how horribly sour and gross this was.
pours golden with small head. smells of apricot and muscadine taste is sweet apricot.
Pours with not much head and a golden, lemon color body. Smells of muscat and vinegar. Flavor is overripe, apricot, muscat, vinegar, and sour. Finish is sweet and sour.
(bottle - 12 oz) Rich amber color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is very sweet with lots of apricots and yeast. Flavor is very sweet as well. Took us by surprise with how sweet it was. Tons of sugar and apricot flavor with a lingering, syrupy aftertaste.
Can split with Curly and ScottyP at the Impromtu Woody’s Ticker Tasting. Very old bottle, at least a few years of age. Pours a near clear amber, with small ring of near white head. Aroma of an apricot cobbler, very bready. Some vinegar, but mainly a very sweet fruity lambic qualities, similar to a lindeman’s but much more balanced by the sour. Expensive, but I really enjoyed this, like a nice sour cider.
Pours a clear golden with white head. Very strong apricot aroma, tart. Very sweet, syrupy, sticky taste. Good but not my cup of tea.
Update June 2, ’08: Original review is dead on except that I got a good pour with a long lasting surface cover and some slippery ropy lacing.
Crystal clear apricot colour, poured hardly any head (white) and left only a ring. Barely any lacing too. Lots of syrupy apricots in the aroma along with some cereal. Actually, this smells just like girly cider! I’m convinced. This is a cider. Really tangy and sweet...its cider! I dropped 6 bucks for cider?? Sooo tangy! Some sourness, some yeast and not nearly enough apricot, although, maybe a soft flavour is a good way to go. What do I rate this - a 3 or a 9? Mouth feel is awsome, but is this a beer or what? All tangy aftertaste, lots of carb on the swish, a little syrupy and dry. It’s a cider. Give this to the freckled girl you brought home from the chess tournament.
WHERE’S THE BEER!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I know this is a fruit beer but come on you can trick your under aged Mormon girl friend into drinking this stuff, this is pure fruit punch. Looks decent enough crystal clear golden orange, with just the slightest skiff of pure white head. And I shall review the smell taste and feel in two words, fruit juice. WHERE IS THE BEER? This stuff is extremely easy drinking and refreshing but I like my beer to have a beer taste and includes when I reach for a fruit beer, it still needs some beer in it."
Orange pour. Pours like a cider, very fizzy. Over-bearing apricot aroma. The taste is just as over-bearing as the scent. Sour taste, similar to an over ripened apple juice. Quite fruity and veeeeeeeery tart!
At the tasting session by Joes. A clear golden colored beer, with a white head. The aroma is very fruity, raspberries, cherries and apricots. The taste is sparkling and fruity sweet with a little sour. Syrup like. The aftertaste is fruity sweet.
Bottle from Holiday Wine Cellar. Pours golden orange wiht a tan head. Nose is fruity with a touch of fruity apricot. Taste is sweet fruity and pleasant but nothing special.
Bottled (from Ölkonsortiet, Aalborg). Orangeish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is apricot, earth, much sourness and also some wet wood. Very nice. Flavour is sweet apricot, some sourness, mild wood and very pleasantly balanced. Too bad the apricot is a bit too sweet/strong in the flavour, othewise a very nice brew.
Bottle. Very, very clear straw body with minimal head. Lots of bubbles clinging to the side of the glass. Nose is kinda sour like a clean barn. Nice sharp sour/tart flavor up front. Apricot dominates the flavor profile. The sourness is not over the top, but is quite nice. It is a good compliment to the sweet apricot.
A golden beer with a thick white head.A pleasant aroma of Brett and fruit, quite nice. A sweet apricot start followed by lactic acid, vinegar, a bit too sweet, but overall interesting. Light bodied. Bottle is about yrs old.
A lambic - fruit? Way more fruit than lambic... and by fruit I mean syrup. Pours a very thin light golden yellow with huge soda bubbles and a big sudsy soda head that fades into a fine white froth. Smells of apricot syrup and wet grains. Very sweet first taste, lightly tart, apricot syrup, a bit of sour wheat, pretty grainy. Gritty cider finish. Its very drinkable, however, it is more of an Italian soda, the syrup is laid on way too thick. More than one would leave your stomach in pain.
Copper coloured body with a bright orange tint and a short-lived white head that tops the beer. Aroma of pure fresh apricots, caster sugar, malt, white grapes and a nice fresh scent. Medium-bodied; Sweet flavourful taste of apricots with a great caster sugar taste and a perfect amount of malt. This one is what fruit beers should be. Aftertaste shows the apricots fully through with a good maltiness and a perfect amount of sugars. Overall, a damn good fruit beer - perhaps one of the better ones made. I sampled this nearly 3 year old bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Vienna, Virginia on 24-December-2005.
A really good fruit beer. Aroma of pure apricot. Sweet and fruity taste. The pour is golden coloured and thin white head perseveres through the entire beer. A unbelievable and tasty beer.
Bottle.Straw in colour with a sweet apricot nose,a bubbly white head.Flavor is of tart apricot,maybe apple cider,a little yeast,and a dry finish. It took me a little bit to warm up to this but,in the end I was sad to see it was all gone.
Bottle: Clear gold pour with a moderate sized creamy beige head. Smells like, well... apricot juice. Taste is again the fruity apricot nectar, just like I remember them when picked straight from the tree. Some light hops and more fruity sweetness. Just the right amount of carbonation. Good, for what it is (more of a fruit juice than a beer).
An average pour produces a three finger thick, pale, cream colored head. The beer is a pale amber, copper color that shows a brilliantly clear, full gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of tart apricot flesh up front, but then gets a full, concentrated almost jam like, apricot character in the middle and finish that really dominates the nose. Perhaps a hint of toasty grain is noticeable, but I may just be imagining this last bit. Definitely a one-dimensional character to the nose.
Quite sweet with an accompanying sticky, fullness and body. Of course the dominant flavor here is of apricots; ripe, sugar added, apricot preserves just about describes the flavor of this apricot soda, errr I mean beer. This only has a faint tartness that seems to accentuated the apricot notes a bit. The apricot flavor, while one dimensional in its focus on the fruit, still has a nice full fruit flavor to it.
Obviously there is not a lot going on with this beer. Apricot is the name of the game and it does a good job of delivering that specific character. It is too sweet and too thick though to be refreshing, which might not have been half bad.
Purchased: Papago Brewing, Scottsdale AZ
Pours a nice clear golden color with a lasting white head. Smell is sweet apricots and malt. Sugary. Taste is sweet, apricot candy like. Nice and bubbly and sweet and lightly tart in the finish. Very italian soda like, but enjoyable and a bit short of cloying. Tasty.
Bottle: Poured a bright golden color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention with some lacing. Aroma consists of real apricot without any fake syrup as well as some subtle sour notes. Taste is again dominated by some nice real apricot taste without the domination of the fake syrupy fruit stuff you sometime find in those beers. Great carbonation with a somewhat full body. I really enjoyed this for what it was and wouldn’t mind having a more regular access to this beer.
Golden of color with a small white head. An aroma with notes of sweets, apricot and sour notes. A flavor of apricot, peach, sweets and sour notes.
Pours a clear dull gold with a nice small head & some lacing, and a sweet apricot aroma. Tastes of sweet apples & apricots, very nice! Bit of a sourish finish. Creamy body with good carbonation. Very quaffable.
Pours clear golden, plenty of bubbles and a rich white head. Nose has subtle notes of apricot but mostly sugar cane and wild yeast. Very nice flavor with plenty of apricot sweetness balanced by the sourness of the wild yeast (could have erred on the sourer side, but this is nice). Body is light, plenty of effervescence, really quite pleasant. Overall a very pleasant lambic--and from Britain no less!
Poured golden colour. Very small, fizzy head. Aroma was fruity, heavy on the apricot (not surprisingly). Nice sweet taste with some bitterness, nicely balanced. Loved it.
355 ml bottle at my small outdoor tasting together with Kjetil B., Roger and Asgeir - bought in Cardiff by Kjetil B. Clear golden color, moderate white head. Aroma is apricot, and it has some acidicity. Flavor is sweet apricot, with a very balancing sourness. Could have been awfull, but the sourness makes this a very drinkable beer.
Bottle from BevMo. Medium golden in color with a foamy white head. Looks as though it’s pretty well carbonated. Sweet aroma of light graininess and apricot. Lightly tart flavor. A little bit of an apricot flavor along with some graininess. Fairly sweet. Enjoyable lambic. Certainly not great though. Could be a little more tart and a little less carbonated.