Lindemans Apple - Brouwerij Lindemans

dansmcd

Australia

4.2/5  rDev +14.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A - Hazy, yellowy gold with a thin creamy white head that settles to a cap with solid spots of lacing.

S - Golden delicious apples, very sweet, apple pie with cinnamon, sugary apple flavoured lollies.

T - Really sweet, kind of artifical apple flavour but not in a bad way, balanced nicely with a funky tartness.

M - Light body with an appropriately high carbonation.

O - Clearly not the most authentic of lambics but it is very refreshing and bloody tasty. Give it a shot.

Serving type: on-tap

02-12-2012 09:15:50 | More by dansmcd

michaelpcarney

Ohio

3.9/5  rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

A - Pours a light cider / Low foam / Settles to nothing

S - Green apples!! / Nice Finish

T - Sweet & Tart Green Apple / Light Yeast on the back

M - High Carbs / Very Sticky / Very Light

D - Apple Cider Soda / Too much sweets for another

Serving type: TAP

Serving type: on-tap

07-11-2010 14:22:07 | More by michaelpcarney

armock

New York

3.75/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A - Poured a hazy yellow color with a white head that leaves lacing behind

S - Is a nose full of sour apple

T - Follows the nose lots of sour apple its like drinking an apple jolly rancher

M - This beer has a medium body with higher carbonation to it

D - This is one of the few fruit lambics that I can drink the whole pour of granted I only get the stuff when its on special at the bar but its worth a try sometime

Serving type: on-tap

01-31-2010 23:40:51 | More by armock

bobsy

Ontario (Canada)

3.78/5  rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

On tap at Pizza Plant.

While these Lindemans beers are classed as fruit lambics, I don't approach them expecting something similar to a Cantillon or a Drei Fonteinen. The sweetness and lack of funky sourness precludes that. Instead I view them as a Belgian take on a fruit beer and removed from your traditional lambic. As such, I really like them for what they are.

Pours the colour of apple cide with absolutely no chance of seeing anything through the glass. Capped with a small, clipped white head that leaves some nice lace spots on the unique Lindemans branded glass. Fresh pressed apple juice aroma betrays this beer's simplicity. Likewise, the flavour is ridiculously simple. Fresh apple juice, with a bit of a sour green apple character taht's amply balanced by sweetness. Its actually pretty well-constructed for what it is, and it makes a nice light dinner beer. Nothing in the nature of true lambic character.

Overall, a nice fruit beer, whose simple flavour and quenching body make it an easy drinker. I'd take the framboise any day, but this is pleasant enough.

Serving type: on-tap

01-17-2010 20:15:41 | More by bobsy

DoubleJ

California

4.13/5  rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

On-tap at Heroe's, on to the beer:

Apple beer for lunch? Let's see how this works....it looks like a witbier with a very faint yellow color and hazy body. this beer leaves very good lacing on the glass. I could type the words "green apple" and "green apple skins" over and over, but I'll use those terms just this this once. There's a lot of that flavor in this beer. The end of each sip turns tart and sour before it dries up. It's light in the mouth and semi-crisp with a just a kiss of alcohol.

I've found another Lindeman's offering I'd rather have then the widely available framboise (raspberry). Give this to a non-beer drinker and see how they'll react. Delicious!

Serving type: on-tap

10-02-2008 23:12:56 | More by DoubleJ

webmanspidey

Michigan

3.78/5  rDev +3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Tastes and smells like sour green apple candy. Not much more to say about it.. it is a sour tarty/fruity beer that is good for a change of pace or to suggest to those who do not like your typical malty hoppy beers. Drinkable in the sense it is not too strong, but too much of that fruity taste gets old kind of fast.

Serving type: on-tap

09-12-2008 04:01:23 | More by webmanspidey

OWSLEY069

Pennsylvania

3.53/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Pours a cloudy yellow-ish color with a white head. Aromas of green apple and cinnamon. In the taste, again green apple and cinnamon. A bitter, sweet and sour apple mouthfeel, with a dry green apple and spice aftertaste. Taste almost like apple cider, dryer than most Lindeman's, and not as sugary.

Serving type: on-tap

08-14-2008 01:04:24 | More by OWSLEY069

Durge

Connecticut

2.73/5  rDev -25.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Yellow-gold cloudy concoction with a minor bubbly head and very little lacing. The smell is of sour, crisp apples and some earthy/compost-like stuff. The taste comes off as a fizzy tart apple and yeast blend, like granny apple soda or champagne. Kind of a refreshing experience for a few sips if you think more soda than beer, and it seems drinkable enough, like any soda could be, but it is too sweet for me to want more than a taste of this stuff I think. I recommend you ask for a sample size of this before you commit to a full portion. It was alright for a try though.

Serving type: on-tap

08-02-2007 01:17:44 | More by Durge

Viggo

Ontario (Canada)

3.05/5  rDev -16.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5

On tap at Goodbar in Buffalo, thanks Amanda!

Pours a cloudy yellow/amber, thin white head, leaves some decent lacing, thin ring sticks around, otherwise kind of unappealing, kind of dull. Smell is very sweet, sugary, apples, sourness, strawberry and a touch of vanilla, but overwhelmingly sweet. Taste is insanely sweet as well, tastes like a sour apple jolly rancher, very sugary. Mouthfeel is light bodied with low carbonation, almost cloying. Much too sugary for me, weird synthetic apple aroma/flavour.

Serving type: on-tap

07-09-2007 21:37:14 | More by Viggo

biegaman

Ontario (Canada)

3.98/5  rDev +8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Presents itself with bubbles but no real head. A semi-clouded off peach coloured body. A tremendous aroma of apples! A blend of golden delicious and granny smith brand. Plenty both sweet and lightly tart. The apple flavour suits the lambic style nicely. The flavour also carries an intricate blend of apple varieties. Sugary, lightly sour. This is one lambic that might not appeal to everyone, but I personally would consider buying it again for sure.
Special thanks to Amanda at Mr.Goodbar for the sample!

Serving type: on-tap

05-23-2007 17:56:33 | More by biegaman

WVbeergeek

Ohio

2.95/5  rDev -19.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Taking one for the team after this one is kicked at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse, Ename tripel will be flowing on draft imagine how lucky we are to have a true tripel flowing after this candy inspired fruit ale. Appears a pale golden apple juice with a light white colore head leaves thin specks of lace with each sip. Arom has tart apple, granny smith if you will pretty sharp acidity quality in the smell. Taste howevery is overwhelmingly sweet with Jolly Rancher green apple abundancy with more sweet than tart literally sugary in flavor not so much ciderish but more or less arificially injected with concentrated sugars. Mouthfeel leaves a dry coating on the palate lighter body overarl with spritzy carbonation for this lighter bodied ale. Drinkability well no thanks especially after trying so many fine beers over the years at the Creekhouse.

Serving type: on-tap

10-26-2006 06:54:06 | More by WVbeergeek

BEERchitect

Kentucky

4.15/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

As if this beer isn't good enough from the bottle. Even smoother, richer, and cleaner from the tap. Very cider-like with apples and berries under a very sugar sweet maltiness and added apples. Very tart and acidic, evident in aroma and flavor. Vigorously carbonated for a playfull effect in the mouth. Astringent feeling, but not overly so. Finishes with a big apple flavor, syrupy sweetness and carbonated dryness and tartness. Sweet almost to the point where it hurts the teeth. Though I love the beer, the sweetness and apples over-take what would be pronounced Belgian Beer flavor.

Serving type: on-tap

08-09-2006 01:33:46 | More by BEERchitect

Domingo

Colorado

3.6/5  rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Had this on tap at the Falling Rock. I'm a little prejudiced as I really enjoy apple flavor. My favorite beer to date is the Andechs Apfelweiss, and the New Glarus Apple Ale was also a fave before it was retired.
Comes a pale yellow color. Reminds me of a really carbonated Hefe. While filtered and not cloudy, it has a hazy shade.
Smell is of sour apple. Sour in the vein of a granny smith.
The flavor is all apple. Unlike the other Lindeman items where there's a sour grassy lambic flavor to the beer, the apple taste is a bit too strong. The only thing is, it doesn't smell or taste like real apple. It actually tastes like a jolly rancher style of apple flavoring. It's not bad and it's a nice quencher, but it's not for everyone. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as I'd have hoped. It's not as sweet and sticky as an alcho-pop, but it needs more "beer" flavor. It does have the lambic tartness and a little spicyness in there, too, but the apple flavor's just a bit too much for it. I like apple flavor so my rating is likely inflated as a result...but as a beer, it's above average, but not as good as it could be.
Mouthfeel's thin and crisp. Goes down easy. Alcohol's not there at all, so it's a nice warm weather beer or after work brew.
Drinkability could be a potential weak point. I like the flavor, but it's too sweet and too pricy to really make a session of it, even if you do like apple flavor.
This isn't a bad brew, but it was a let down for me as the apple flavoring tastes more like candy than a fruit. With that said, there are still so few apple brews that I have to recommend it. I'd also be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it, too!

Serving type: on-tap

07-24-2006 01:46:46 | More by Domingo

DaPeculierDane

Wisconsin

3.65/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

On Tap at Maduro.

Appearance: Slightly cloudy pale wheat color with a white head that dissolves to a thin lacing.

Aroma: The apple portion of the tootsie roll brand Caramel Apple Pop.

Taste: Dido.

Mouthfeel: Artificial candy tartness well blended with full fruit candied sweetness. Extremely light bodied.

Drinkability: Surprisingly decent despite the completely artificial aroma, flavor, and MF.

Great for the ladies but not for me. Nearly identical to a Demi Pomme made with Kronenbourg and Sour Apple Syrup.

Serving type: on-tap

07-21-2006 15:41:57 | More by DaPeculierDane

tozerm

Washington

4.15/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Pomme. It's a good thing. The best thing about this beer is the aroma. Like the other Lindemans offerings it's like smelling a big bowl of fresh (apples, raspberries, cherries, peaches). The aroma makes my mouth water. I definitely like the green apple characteristics of this beer. The sour flavor matches very nicely with the sourness of the Lambic base. For my money this is the least sugary sweet of the Lindeman's fruit beers. Worth seeking it out.

Serving type: on-tap

07-20-2006 07:38:50 | More by tozerm

akorsak

Pennsylvania

3.83/5  rDev +4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

This is an 8 oz. serving of Pomme, poured into a nice Lindemans glass at Frisco Grille in Columbia, MD.

Appearance: The ale is a bright golden color. It is crystal clear with no signs of sediment. There is little head.

Smell: Sour Apple Jolly Rancher. Those 4 words do it justice, but you have to admit it is intriguing.

Taste: See above. The sour green apple flavor jumps out at you with a vengence. The flavor is not too acidic, just sour enough to make you appreciate it.

Mouthfeel: The sourness strains the taste buds at times...

Drinkability: My first taste of this new offering and I am curious. I wanna try a bottle and see how the delicate flavors hold up in a bottle.

Serving type: on-tap

06-15-2006 03:03:45 | More by akorsak

IchLiebeBier

Virginia

4/5  rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Appearance: Pale Gold; cloudy with yeast sediment; no head

Aroma: Just like sour apple jolly ranchers

Taste: Tart, sweet green apples; sweet, juicy finish; really quite good, though not beer-like

Remarks: Did not score A, T, S, M at that time; disregard those scores

Serving type: bottle

06-15-2013 15:26:54 | More by IchLiebeBier

Kmat10

Alberta (Canada)

3.66/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

355ml bottle poured into a tulip

A- Pours a hazy golden color with little carbonation, one finger of white head that goes away fairly quickly, little lacing

S- Sweet green apples with a touch of sour

T- Pretty sweet green apple, touch of sourness

M- Fairly light, smooth, light carbonation

O- Very nice tasting beer, bit too sweet and not sour enough for my liking though, could easily confuse it for a cider

Serving type: bottle

06-05-2013 02:54:13 | More by Kmat10

patre_tim

China

4.19/5  rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

A: Chinese gold, or gold with an amber tinge, some particles suspended within (flecks of iron colour particles) little beige foam, slight cloudiness.

S: Apples, apple juice, beer malt, apple cider, sweet floral orchard, flowers in bloom.

T: I get the apple cider qualities of a light crisp sweetness, crisply carbonated body, then the apple juice, lambic sour, musty mould qualites, with a dry finnish. Slight sweetness of the apples to balance it.

M: Light body to medium body, well carbonated, dry with dry finnish.

O: Delicious and refreshing beer. Glad to have found this one though it was overpriced. Not one I would particularly go out of my way for as a cider where available would do the trick if you are going for this sort of flavour. I do enjoy it immensely, and it has more body than most ciders. Would go well with fatty meats.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2013 10:26:52 | More by patre_tim

Thehuntmaster

South Africa

3.33/5  rDev -9.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

250ml bottle 3,5% Abv.
Served chilled in an oversized wine glass.
Best before: 24/05/2014

Appearance: Moderately hazed golden-yellow body, topped by a medium sized white head that fizzes away pretty quickly and doesn’t leave anything in the way of lacing.

Smell: Well yes, this smells like apple juice (not much of a surprise since the standard Lindeman’s geuze tasted just like apple juice). The nose is basically a combination of fresh green apples, sweet apple juice and tart apple flavoured candy. There is virtually no lambic character present.

Taste: As with the nose, the flavor is dominated by fresh green apples and tart apple candy. There is also a light grainy character and yet again no lambic character.

Mouthfeel: The mouthfeel here is actually surprisingly pleasant – light body with a medium level of fantastically smooth carbonation.

Overall: Well I preferred this to the Lindeman’s geuze, but it is still a little worrying that this stuff is marketed as lambic!

Serving type: bottle

04-12-2013 15:59:21 | More by Thehuntmaster

Hunter

Arizona

3.39/5  rDev -7.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Appearance: Essentially the color of apple juice. Little to no carbonation, a head of light white bubbles forms quickly, dissipates even faster. Very little tracing to speak of.

Smell: A very lovely nose of green apple and florals.

Taste: Sweet, as you might expect, but the souring nature of lambic is such that it keeps the sweetness from becoming cloying. Apple flavors dominate, initially sweet then sour on the aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Light, clean.

Overall: One of the better pairings of beer and apple. The lambic retains enough presence that you don't wonder why you didn't simply grab a cider.

Serving type: bottle

03-21-2013 23:13:59 | More by Hunter

biteme398

Virginia

4.11/5  rDev +12%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Poured from a 750mL bottle into a flute glass. Very bubbly appearance and a solid head is retained. Towards the bottom of the bottle were numerous floating particles as well. The nose is, not surprisingly, apples with some brown sugar as well. The taste is very sweet, almost like hard cider with the apple being the dominant flavor. Although this has a one-dimensional approach at first sip, the beer's complexity becomes apparent at times, hints of sourness especially. Overall, a good beer that will definitely turn some off with its pungent apple taste but once you get past that, there is much to enjoy.

Serving type: bottle

02-16-2013 00:37:44 | More by biteme398

magictacosinus

California

3.99/5  rDev +8.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Poured out of a 12oz bottle into the brewery's trademark flute glass. No freshness date on the bottle.

After a light pop (not as loud the Framboise was), this pours into the glass with a white champagne appearance that quickly turns into an unfiltered, cloudy, pale brown color that makes this look very much like cider. Bubbles are pretty explosive here, rising in small curtains of carbonation to the top of the glass underneath a decent, yet persevering half finger of foam. Overall, it does indeed look like a strongly infused apple Lambic, and is both elegant and casual in its presentation.

At the tip of the nose, I'm definitely getting traces of candied green apple notes, to the point where it seems far more like candy than actual apples. Luckily, the smell reminds me very vividly of apple hard candy that I used to eat while growing up in Brazil... Literally smelling this beer takes me back to those moments of eating the candy and running around familiar playgrounds. Not too sour here so far - although there are noticeable yet lightly tinged spicy yeasty phenols. Smells fresh, although it's definitely more on the sugary side than the tart realm!

The flavor the is far less sweetened, on the other hand - especially if you let this warm up a bit. Don't get me wrong, the candied apple aromas really are at the front, but they are quickly replaced by slightly dried, cider like consistency combined with a sourish finish and a little bit of woodiness. The wheat is a little bit more present here, although, just like with my experience with the Framboise, the primary beer ingredients made during primary fermentation take a backseat from the the apples and natural flavor added during secondary fermentation. Still, it's pretty relaxing to drink and makes a good aperitif... The texture is pretty wet at first, which compliments the apples in a juicy feel, and yet the finish is slightly dry, and, luckily, a little tarty. My only complaint is the slight sweet astringency here, but it is quickly covered over by the sour flavors.

In this case, I must say that my enjoying of this beer definitely comes from bias on my part to its flavors taking me back to my childhood memories, where candy was quite predominant. It's still pretty mellow, and exactly as I expect an apple beer to be. Looking forward to trying more from Lindemans soon.

Serving type: bottle

01-22-2013 03:24:49 | More by magictacosinus

TheBrewo

Michigan

3.96/5  rDev +7.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

We crack the cap and cork and pour a brew of golden honey coloring. It puts up a brief half finger tall head of fatty white bubbles. These fizz away into aggregates across the top of the liquid, with punctate lacing left around the glasses. There is no real haze to it, but tiny flecks of sediment bob about. Carbonation appears active. The aroma is fruity and tart, much like green apple Jolly Ranchers. The malts are pale, with stark metallic yeast tying in with it. There are both fresh and synthetic apples, with the juiciness and flavoring of real green apples, but the soured tartness of candies. With warmth comes a bit more musk and a light herbal quality. Our first impression is that the flavoring is very sweet and juicy, with just the right amount of tartness to balance and give that amazing lambic pucker. As we sip, sugary sweet green apple juice, tartness of Smarties and apple candy, pale malts, and musky metallic yeast start things off. The peak follows through with an enhanced bite and pucker to the sour side of the flavoring, with the tartness of raw green apple skin and seed really punching up. This continues through the end, but with much more balance from that pale malty base, and more dripping wet juicy sweetness of those juices. The aftertaste breathes with an herbal bitterness, apple juiciness, synthetic candy bite, muskiness, flashes of metallic yeast, and a sweet red grapey quality that makes it taste almost like a fruity wine at times. The body is medium but syrupy, while the carbonation is medium. There is great froth and slurp to the sip, with nice cream and bubble to the lip. The mouth is initially coated with wet, satiating juiciness, but eventually dries with mild astringency and pucker. The abv is appropriate, and the beer drinks very easily.

Overall, what we enjoyed most about this beer was the wet juiciness of the included fruit. Each sip of this beer left your mouth watering for more, but with just enough punch and pucker to the tartness to make you take your time. The nose is fresh and soured, again, with all the necessary fruitiness and pop for a solid execution. The feel follows suit, making the case for this guy even stronger.

Serving type: bottle

01-18-2013 00:51:18 | More by TheBrewo

Aaron_Ramson

California

3.98/5  rDev +8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I've only had the pleasure to try Lindemans apple and raspberry lambics, and I definitely prefer the apple to the raspberry. When poured, the head was a beautiful and fluffy white with the color of the beer being a cloudy amber, similar to the color or apple juice but without the clarity. It was tart and crisp, sour with the pleasant tastes of the wild yeast very much in the background and subdued. The carbonation was very appropriate; not overly or under. Medium thin mouthfeel. Lindemans pomme lambic was enjoyable and easy to drink; it's a great "celebration" beer that can easily be used in place of a Asti champagne.

Serving type: bottle

12-28-2012 04:14:57 | More by Aaron_Ramson