Mango Beer - Matso's Broome Brewery

dgilks

Australia

3.18/5  rDev +23.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Impressively clear, sweet, mango aroma. it doesn't come across as artificial in any way. A very light maltiness can be distinguished in the background.

Very pale straw colour with no head.

The flavour loses something for me. They use a Belgian Blonde as the base and the light pils malt flavour comes through with some fruity yeast character. The mango flavour here is actually a bit cloying and misses something for me. A light tartness doesn't quite do enough to balance the sweetness.

Medium body with moderate carbonation. I feel that this needs a higher carbonation level to clean up the sweetness.

A decent attempt at a mango beer and I like the concept. The sweetness is a bit of a put off but I don't think it's awful.

Serving type: bottle

05-08-2010 02:17:18 | More by dgilks

soju6

Missouri

2/5  rDev -22.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

A: Pours a golden color with a small head that fades to bits of lacing.

S: Aroma of mango.

T: Taste of mango with bit of grain in the background. No real bitterness and a lingering sticky mango after taste.

F: Light body and sweet, way too sweet.

O: Not a fan of fruity beers.

Serving type: bottle

06-03-2013 22:19:17 | More by soju6

mungus

Australia

2/5  rDev -22.5%

02-18-2013 02:31:50 | More by mungus

SmashPants

Australia

3.08/5  rDev +19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Bottle: stylish 330mL brown bottle, label is a bit cheesy /poorly drawn. Still, interesting packaging.

Appearance: light yellow in colour with reasonably high carbonation and a thin, filmy white head. Not unpleasant looking at all.

Aroma: a huge wave of sickly-sweet mango attacked my senses as soon as I popped the top. Touch of passionfruit also. A little overwhelming.

Taste: quite pleasant if a little sweet. Tastes pretty much like a pleasant, traditional-style mango fizzy drink.

Aftertaste: doesn't linger too long at all - just that sugary-sweet mango.

Mouthfeel: nicely done for the style, with a decent amount of carbonation to make it a fun drink.

Overall: really, all you are looking at here is a slightly alcoholic, extremely expensive mango fizzy drink. It is reasonably pleasant, but certainly not worth having again.

Serving type: bottle

09-11-2012 05:02:52 | More by SmashPants

dansmcd

Australia

2.03/5  rDev -21.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

A - Clear sparkling apple juice like appearance, no head no matter how aggressive the pour. Lacing? ha, no.

S - Sweet mango and cheap crappy white wine.

T - Artificially sweet mango flavouring and not much else.

M - Light body, moderately carbonated. Not a bad swigger on a hot day.

O - An interesting idea for a summer thirst quencher. Mango is a lovely fruit but this is a bit sickly sweet for my liking.

Serving type: bottle

05-15-2012 10:49:15 | More by dansmcd

hopnerd

Australia

3.25/5  rDev +26%

04-15-2012 09:35:25 | More by hopnerd

CrazyDavros

Australia

3.15/5  rDev +22.1%
look: 2 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Pours orange gold with practically no head.
Nose shows mango, faint malt and wheat. Mostly mango though.
Same mango as a flavour but it comes off somewhat cloying with little in the way of back flavours, just some faint hay notes.
Carbonation is a little full on.
An interesting fruit beer, I would have liked a drier, more refreshing slant.

Serving type: bottle

02-14-2012 07:26:04 | More by CrazyDavros

heygeebee

Australia

2.15/5  rDev -16.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2

Shared with mrs heygeebee...

Pours a zero finger quickly subsiding head - clear light straw - and I mean light coloured!

Aromas of mango puree - with added sugar.

Taste is sweet, sickly. all mango, no bitterness. Suitable dessert beer.

Mouthfeel is actually ok - zingy and carbonated - at odds with look.

Overall - meh...

Serving type: bottle

08-14-2011 11:02:55 | More by heygeebee

laituegonflable

Australia

2.23/5  rDev -13.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Pours a shiny clear gold, whispy head - white colour - and decent lace. Looks quite malty, but not very impressive.

Smells very fruity, with good belt of stonefruit, passionfruit tang, some pomegranate and not much malt; maybe slight metallic note. Subdued, not uninteresting but really not sure what to make of it.

Taste is sooo sweet. Yuck. Insipid tangy fruit, virtually nothing else. Apple juice largely with pear, passionfruit and slight citrus character late, bit of zest. But it's bland, weak, way too sweet. Starts at the bottom of a flavour valley and bores downhill.

Actually a bit of body with slight, very gentle fizz. Very dry as well. I'm more impressed than i was with the taste, but it's still not great.

It's bland, overly sweet and fruity and not beer-like at all. Not a fan. Beer, meet drain.

Serving type: bottle

05-25-2011 06:13:22 | More by laituegonflable

lacqueredmouse

Australia

2.17/5  rDev -15.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Purchased from the International Beer Shop in Perth.

Pours a very clear yellow colour, bright and vibrant, with a filmy head of pale white bubbles around the edge. Light and bright, it looks visually quite appealing. Not bad.

Nose is weird and funky, with artificial mango characters coming through with a hint of medicinal peah, and an undesirable whiff of ass. Rather green, funky and organic, with a natural methane cloud. The mango is tropical and pleasant enough, but it mixes very oddly with the rest of the aromas. Urr...

Taste is grainy and slightly yeasty on the front, before the mango sweetness tries valiantly to draw the palate back in the direction it was intended. It seems as though it puts all its effort into one thrust mid palate, meaning some organic and funky yeast manages to sneak in on the back, along with a husky grain that just adds rankness to the overt sweetness.

Pass. A poor base beer cannot be saved or masked by the addition of fruit, and that's what we have here. Mango isn't a necessarily unpleasant character in a beer (although I've not seen it used well), but here it just adds unsubtle and unnuanced sickly sweet notes to a beer that is rank and forgettable.

Serving type: bottle

05-21-2011 00:20:16 | More by lacqueredmouse

LittleCreature

Australia

3.15/5  rDev +22.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Appearance - 3.0
Pours a finger of loose white head that slowly reduced to nothing over a surprisingly pale, straw coloured body. Pretty much looks like a regular pale lager.

Smell - 3.5
Impressively subtle aroma, while almost entirely mango fruit, is not overly sweet and perfumy.

Taste - 3.0
The base beer is clearly very light and dry, allowing the mango to take precedence. Sweet and tart fruit tastes like real, fresh mango, though not sticky sweet as expected. Very crisp and refreshing, a good summer drink.

Mouthfeel - 3.5
Light in the mouth with fine carbonation, getting a little sticky towards the bottom of the glass.

Drinkability - 3.0
Definitely a summer beer, but I wouldn't want more than one.

OVERALL - 3.15
The label states that this beer is made using "a 100% natural mango fruit blend". I'm not sure exactly what to make of this, but importantly, it does taste pretty natural. Impressively subtle too, but for some reason it just doesn't excite me, and I actually found the tartness a little off-putting. Still, if anything this beer deserves a higher score - it's really not bad.

Serving type: bottle

03-10-2010 13:26:49 | More by LittleCreature