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beerstodiscover wrote:I can't imagine Unibroue making anything less than great for their 25th.
Well I couldn't imagine it, but now I know better. This beer is undrinkable. I can't even recall the last beer I drain poured, but I couldn't get through 10 oz. of this. It tastes like cherry Halls with a bitter kick. Quite a let down.

Admittedly the description sounded odd. The lack of listed ingredients made me suspicious. But I bought it based on the brewery's reputation. Sorry to anyone he heeded my call and bought this!

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Post by Napalm Frog »

I enjoyed it, but was underwhelmed coming in with higher expectations. Cherry felt a bit synthetic (to be fair, not the biggest cherry-flavour fan), and profile was a bit harsher than I would've expected. My brother said it tasted like chocolate, and my mom said chocolate and fruit. I'm guessing it's just unbalanced, and needs 6mo-1yr on it to mellow out.

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Post by Blasphomet »

People need to stop brewing beer with cherries. It's by far the worst fruit to use. I, as well as so many other people I've talked to about it agree... the vast majority of the time your beer just ends up tasting medicinal. Like Halls, as the person said above... or just cherry flavoured cold medicine. Unless your beer is a sour... keep cherries the hell out of there.

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I haven't sampled too many cherry beers but Bellwoods 3MTM is one of my favourite all time stouts. I thought the raspberry version entered cough medicine territory. TDD's Le Coq also has a nice sweet cherry pie flavour. Seeing some reviews, seems a lot of people liked the Unibroue 25e.

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Blasphomet wrote:People need to stop brewing beer with cherries. It's by far the worst fruit to use. I, as well as so many other people I've talked to about it agree... the vast majority of the time your beer just ends up tasting medicinal. Like Halls, as the person said above... or just cherry flavoured cold medicine. Unless your beer is a sour... keep cherries the hell out of there.
I enjoy almost any cherry beer. But agree it can go awfully wrong a lot of the time! no risk, no reward....when done right, cherry beers of any style are beautiful. Now if we can stop people from using guava....bleh.

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I had a nearly four-year-old Quelque Chose in 2010, it was a gorgeous beast. The bottle almost opened itself, so much pressure and little carbonation but the blooming cherry flavours and tartness were wonderful. I assume that retired Unibroue beer is not profitable.
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the Niagara Montmorency Cherries that Collective Arts, Brickworks and Nickel Brook use are pretty good.

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Belgian wrote:I had a nearly four-year-old Quelque Chose in 2010, it was a gorgeous beast. The bottle almost opened itself, so much pressure and little carbonation but the blooming cherry flavours and tartness were wonderful. I assume that retired Unibroue beer is not profitable.
no...it has to do with the cherries provided. think it was Lindemans and it was a blend of cherry beer with a Unibrou beer. they're now owned by other larger breweries and i was told that the relationship was severed shortly after their acquisitions .

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JaseWescott wrote:the Niagara Montmorency Cherries that Collective Arts, Brickworks and Nickel Brook use are pretty good.

And GLB for Harry Porter. Same cherries...Pretty yummy beer.
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Post by Orval_Al »

I not so secretly love Mort Subite kriek, even though people shun it for tasting medicinal. I'm really bummed that it disappeared from the LCBO a couple years ago, even though it was really creeping up in price by the end of its run.

Can't the LCBO just give us one decent kriek year round?

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JeffPorter wrote:
JaseWescott wrote:the Niagara Montmorency Cherries that Collective Arts, Brickworks and Nickel Brook use are pretty good.

And GLB for Harry Porter. Same cherries...Pretty yummy beer.
Bellwoods uses them too in Farmageddon and a couple other beers I guess these Cherries are getting around!

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spinrsx wrote:and this:

Collective Arts IPA #5
LCBO#: 552448 | 473 mL can
$4.95?!
Looks like something fell through with the No. 5 as its no longer listed on the LCBO website and isn't mentioned on the brewery site either.

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/collec ... a-5/552448
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cratez wrote:
spinrsx wrote:and this:

Collective Arts IPA #5
LCBO#: 552448 | 473 mL can
$4.95?!
Looks like something fell through with the No. 5 as its no longer listed on the LCBO website and isn't mentioned on the brewery site either.

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/collec ... a-5/552448
this was posted today and mentions it - http://collectiveartsbrewing.com/winter-beer-releases/

" Releasing in bars, restaurants, LCBO + USA, Western Canada: February, 2018"

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Post by Blasphomet »

Yeah I never heard about any IPA# 5. Usually they post upcoming stuff on instagram... but I haven't seen anything.

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Collective Arts Raspberry Milkshake IPA with Habaneros.. this should be.. interesting

distr0 wrote:
cratez wrote:
spinrsx wrote:and this:

Collective Arts IPA #5
LCBO#: 552448 | 473 mL can
$4.95?!
Looks like something fell through with the No. 5 as its no longer listed on the LCBO website and isn't mentioned on the brewery site either.

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/collec ... a-5/552448
this was posted today and mentions it - http://collectiveartsbrewing.com/winter-beer-releases/

" Releasing in bars, restaurants, LCBO + USA, Western Canada: February, 2018"

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