Florisgaarden Passion

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Flute

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Slight hazy, very strong aroma of passion fruit. Refreshing and not too sweet but it is entirely dominated by the fruit to the detriment of any beer presence. An enjoyable beverage that is more lke a cooler that a beer, but is pleasant nonetheless.

June 2010: 330ml brown bottle with purple labels and purple foil around the neck, bought as a joke by a friend. The bottle was poured into a ’Corsendonk’ stemmed tulip glass. Looked lagerish, or a pale English bitter in colour, the head however was off-white, not the pure snow of a lager. The label says passion and that is what you get, in the nose anyway, loads of it. Nothing else can get through the aroma of passion fruit, good job I like the smell. Guess what it tastes of? Yip, passion fruit, very sweet up front, then a sourness hits you almost straight away after the initial sip. The sourness is lemon and lime flavour and stays in the mouth long after the first hints of sweetness have departed. Then slowly a semi-sickly feeling appears from the mouthfeel, very strange and not too pleasant. Add cooking apples into the flavour mix and you have just about got the measure of the tastes it gives off. Different for sure, but not a beer I’ll be trying again, nor offering friends. I can’t really knock the beer, it is what it claims to be, a beer flavoured with passion fruit, most likely syrup enhanced, but who am I to say that is wrong?

Bottle. Hazy golden color with a big white head. Passion fruit (maracujá) aroma and some sweetness, sour passion fruit taste. Medium body with a dry finish.

caramel, cereal, spruce, rotten eggs, bubblegum, red, minimal head, hazy, heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, medium sourness, medium body, slick feel, average carbonation,

Clear goldblond coloured beer with small white head and medium carbonation. Fruity sweet (passion fruits) aroma. Full sparkling palate. Fiinish is sweet sour with dry sweet ending.

Clear yellow to orange colour. Smells very sweet, fruity, passoa. Tastes very sweet, passoa, not beer, very sweet. Sticky, little co2. Good drink: yes. Beer? Nah.

Bottle at Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Clear golden color, like apple juice. White head. Smell sweet, ’passievrucht’ (=passionfruit in English??). Taste sweet, sour, fruits. Low to medium carbo, low body.

3rd July 2009
Clear gold beer. Semi dry crisp palate. Sharp tart passion fruit and not much else! Crisp sharp finish. Unaplogetically fruity! Don’t believe the snobbery - this is alright!

20 June 2011, bottle. pale yellow, clear, some steady bubbles, no head. very sugary, passion fruit juice. med, sugary/syrupy body, faintly fizzy. very sweet passion fruit juice w/ a rather sugary tart finish.

33cl bottle. Pours a golden colour with very gentle bubbles and not much head. The nose has ’passoinfruit’ I guess. The taste is of more very sharp passionfruit and not much hint of barley. The palate is medium in structure with very high acidity and the sharpness continues into the finish. Overall, not my bag, the mango was much more pleasant!

Enjoyed at a Belgian-style bar in Doha, Qatar. Best before March 2012. This one, out of the 4 Floris I tried, had the smallest head, but still, creamy and decent lasting. Its colour was golden and just barely hazy. Wow... what a powerful nose of passion fruits. It does calm down a bit later. Medium-bodied and pretty refreshing. Starts with a mild sweet fruity taste of passion fruits and has a nice little sourness to it. Overall a nice summer fruity beer.