Florisgaarden Ninkeberry

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Flute

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Very pale yellow with a light white head. Sweet aroma of mango and passion fruit. Flavour is sweet fruit with a touch of yeasty tartness buried deep. Spritzy light palate is actually quote nice. Surprisingly good, in a patio summers day kind of way. (He says as it pours rain outside.) Not awful for a fruit beer.

Bottled. Cloudy yellow with a dense white head. Aroma is mild citric peachy, guava and hints of passion fruit. Light sweet berry fruity flavor. citric notes. Mouthfeel is quite sweet soar..

toast, bread, spruce, rotten eggs, bubblegum, red, sparkling, white foam, minimal head, heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, medium sourness, light body, creamy, soft carbonation, astringent,

Bottle @ home, shared with my girlfriend. Slightly hazy yellow / light orange color, small white lacing. The aroma is very sweet and I also smell passion fruits very clearly, but both not offensive. Taste sweet, but soft, again not offensive at all. Soft mouthfeel, soft carbonation, low to medium body. Quite acceptable.

Originally rated August 2006. Newly recieved at the LCBO, best before date is May 2008. Pours a hazy golden colour with a small white head. This one does not last long, but leaves a small layer over the brew. Lightly carbonated, this beer has a beautiful nose with all of the fruits mentioned in the ingredients: peach, apricot, mango and passion fruit. The taste is sweet with mostly the peach and passion fruit showing, but some light sourness in the finish mixes everything well. Not much lingers in the aftertaste. Would be even better if the fruit was from purée, and not juices as listed. Not syrupy, so it makes this one a pretty good summer brew.

330mL bottle poured deep golden with big white head diminishing quickly to fine lace. Aromas of berry and yeast. Tastes fruity with some yeast and a little hop in the finish. An interesting fruit beer to say the least.

[bottle at Café Pivni, York] Hazy golden yellow colour with almost no head. Really juicy aroma – no shortage of fruit on the nose, mostly tropical. Very sweet on the palate, pretty much tropical fruit from start to finish – there is mango in there, the passion fruit takes away a little of the former’s cloying nature, but only a little. Pretty sweet but the more you have, this effect lessons and it actually becomes quite nice. Not sure how many I could get though, mind [03082011]

Single bottle purchased from Co-op Wine & Spirits in Calgary, AB. Colour: Dark gold with no head. Nose: Strong mixed berries, fresh cream. Swirling brings out yeast & wild flowers. Taste: Medium-high sweet, light bitter, medium-light sour. A touch of berry sourness and overall extremely berry dominant. If there is anything else in this it has no chance to come out.

Interesting fruit beer with a rather pleasing flavour. Somewhat unreminiscent of beer, but not bad.

bouteille 33cl. De couleur dorée, col blanc. Arôme est un mélange des fruits tropicaux indiqués sur l’étiquette. Personnellement, j’ai plus ressenti le fruit de la passion ainsi que l’abricot et la mangue, le tout gardant un nez assez sucré avec une fine touche de houblon. En bouche, ressent de suite la mangue, avec en arrière gout l’abricot et la pêche ainsi que la douceur du fruit de la passion. Un aspect tropical qui garde néanmoins un semblant de bière blanche fruitée. Garde aussi ce côté sucré/sirop qui donne une bière épaisse en bouche. Une légère amertume se dégage soit du peu d’ajout de houblon ou alors des fruits. Facile à boire.

15th March 2009
Hazy gold beer. Very sweet passion fruit beer, syrupy sweet. A mildly alcohlic pop drink! Fine as one off.