Mirabella
Browar Fortuna

Copenhagen 15/8 2019. 50 cl bottle from Biedronka near the harbor in Świnoujście. Yellow and black label. Looks like a tribute to Borussia Dortmund.

Pours murky, golden yellow with big white head. Bubbly. Settles as thin patch of foam unable to cover the surface of the beer. No lacing.

Aroma is quite sweet and fruity in a slightly artificial and overwhelming way. Artificial sweet plums, lighter tart overtones. Sugary, cloying sweetness.

Medium carbonation. Thin, oily, slightly sticky texture.

Flavor is heavy sweet followed by a light sour bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet. Mercifully short.

A bit too much Air Freshener and sweet lemonade for me.

500 ml bottle. Just purchased, but realized bottle is dated 2018

pours a cloudy yellow color, with white head. Honey like sweetness. More like apricot than plum in both the aroma and taste. medium bodied.

 

L: cloudy, light orange, thin head, nice lacing
S: slightly sour with fruitiness
T: I get plums for sure, a slight hint of fortified wine mixed with a lager
F: really sweet finish, pretty refreshing
O: odd, but I’m glad I tried it, too sweet for me

Tasted from a 500 ml bottle into a snifter.

L - A pretty beer; dark straw in color and clear. Its white head is fluffy at first, then fades to a ring around the glass and a few central wisps made of extraordinarily tiny bubbles. Light lacing when it is swirled.

S - Sweet and fruity nose shows lots of plum, apricot and an herbal/flowery note almost like chamomile. The fruit totally dominates and the herbal note is at a much lower level. Malt, hops and yeast all fail to show past the aromas already described, leaving an impression of plum juice or plum wine rather than beer. Yet it is still a fresh and inviting aroma.

T - Flavors are a mix of the plum/apricot fruit that was smelled, and ever-so-light malted grain. Clean and refreshing, despite an overall sweetness. Hops and yeast leave no flavor characteristics.

F - Thin to medium body with light carbonation that still fills the mouth and lessens the sweetness. Hops bitterness is very light. No alcohol burn.

O - This is a light and refreshing, although sweet, beer. It would be a good summertime sipper, but verges on the level of sweetness of a wine cooler.

 

 

It has a bright golden color with a light haze and some fine sediment floating around. This is topped off by a tall bright white foam head. Right up front I get loads of fresh ripe peaches, plum and golden raisins in the nose and on the tongue. There is just the slightest hint of pale malt and hop bitterness way off in the background and fading into the finish.

Pours into a stemmed glass a slight hazed honey tinged light golden with a fluffy white crown that settles slowly.Wow fresh plums really come thru in the nose,like cutting one open and put in front of your nose,just great perfume.As another has notes it's almost apricot-like.Very fruity on the palate but it doesn't taste artificial in any kind of way,it does get a little sweet after awhile.I have to say I'am surprised but in the best kind of way,I think the Mrs. would really enjoy this beer as well.

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a hazy, golden amber with a fine one finger white head with great retention and lots of lacing. Aroma of sweet malt, plums and peaches with hints of toffee. Flavor is sweet malt resembling candi malt, plum, apricot, apple, pear and over ripe orange, with fruit esters and an odd artificial note in the finish. Medium bodied with ligth creaminess and good carbonation. A very bright, flavorful plum beer. I'm not familiar with this variety of plum (they are actually not legal to import to the United States, although common in France and Central Europe), but if the flavor here is any indication they have odd notes of other stone fruit like apricot and peach. The plum flavor is very fresh and realistic, except for a little artificial estery component in the finish. The flavor is very similar to the plums on my purple leaf plum tree, which is mostly an ornimental, but has little, juicy plums that are ripe for about a day, making them really tricky to eat (the squirrels get most of them). I'm guessing the Mirabelle is similar in flavor. Regardless of whether this is true to the plum adjunct, the flavor is light and very pleasant and well melded to the malt. I'm not a huge fan of fruit beers, but this is refreshing and very tasty; albeit a little on the sweet side. I hesitated buying this, but am really glad I picked it up and would absolutely consider this if I was in the market for a fresh flavored dessert style beer. Nicely done. The name seems to have been changed on the label to "Mirabella", which is a more likely English rendering of the fruit name.

 

500 ml bottle into pint glass, best before 3/24/2018. Pours slightly hazy deep golden/amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rock white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big juicy plum, apricot, golden raisin, lemon, pear, red apple, melon, fruit jam, honey, wheat, candi sugar, light herbal, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance of plum nectar, fruity yeast, and pale malt/sugar sweetness; with great strength. Taste of big juicy plum, apricot, golden raisin, lemon, pear, red apple, melon, fruit jam, honey, wheat, candi sugar, light herbal, and yeast earthiness. Very mild herbal bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of juicy plum, apricot, golden raisin, lemon, pear, red apple, melon, fruit jam, honey, wheat, candi sugar, light herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice robustness and balance of plum nectar, fruity yeast, and pale malt/sugar sweetness; with a solid malt/bitter/tartness balance; and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from bitter/tartness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/grainy, and slightly sticky/tangy mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a delicious fruit beer! All around nice nice robustness and balance of plum nectar, fruity yeast, and pale malt/sugar sweetness; very smooth, flavorful, and refreshing to drink; with the very mildly tart/bitter finish. More of a dessert fruit beer, but it's not too overpowering. Extremely jammy fruit flavors with balanced wheat/sugary sweetness. Very unique, but really well done. Never had a Mirabelle plum before; very similar to an apricot, but more sweet and not as tangy. A very enjoyable offering.

Pours slightly hazy, gold in color with one inch head. Taste is sweet plum juice, apricot jam, and white sugar. Sweet, light bodied with high carbonation. Makes for an excellent dessert beer. Love all the sugary sweetness with a relatively low abv. Will get this again.