Hoegaarden Verboden Vrucht

Brewed by Brouwerij Hoegaarden (InBev)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Hoegaarden, Belgium

33cl bottle. Pours muddy brown with a medium-sized beige head. Nose has notes of dates, cherries, chocolate, molasses, orange peel and coriander seed. Tongue is syrupy sweet with a spicy warming alcoholic finish. Full bodied and decadent but lacks the richness and complexity of the very best Abbey triples and quads.

Bready caramel aroma with slight belgiany funk. Brownish and hazey in appearance. Caramel, with sweet-malty funk and slight hop character. Mouthfeel is moderate.

Appearance: Very lively beer. I’ve got a huge explosion after the opening :-) Pours dark coppery, oily, with full of sediments. The head retention is fantastic. Aroma: Very fruity, plums, sweet cadies, dried cherries, banana and some toasted malty tones. Flavor: Over-sweet strawberry-candy-like main impression with some spicy hoppy interplay and quite bland, semi-sweet yeasty finish. Palate: This is definitely the strongest point of the beer, thick, oily, creamy with balanced alcohol presence. Overall impression: Nice sweet, sugary, malty backbone with mild alcohol presence, some crisp kinda, hoppy ending, but still needs some "spice" to balance the sugary-sweetness.

0.33 l bottle with a nice label. Hazy reddish brown colour with a nice pale brown head, average carbonation. Intensive sweet and fruity nose, taste’s sweet, too. Spicy aroma of (apricot)fruits and hops, finish’s spicy, bitter and light alcoholy, texture’s light sticky, body’s medium. Good one.

Cloudy brown, beige head which remains a thick coat in a Trappist glass. Smells of berries, dough and grass. Some fizz on the tongue and having it cool keeps the sweetness in balance. Some alcohol burn. Nice enough, but lacks the depth of the better beers in this style.

My cousin bought me this for Christmas. She was in Belgium, in a beer shop, surrounded by hundreds of bottles and grabbed this one for me randomly. I’d never heard of it so I just opened and drank the thing. It has a great aroma but it was more amplified by the taste, which let it down, for me. Candy floss, fruity, yeasty, bready, berries.

Bottle, from Dutch giver, 2009-12-31, Karlskoga, 9 C° This is my New Year treat! AR: Belgian yeast, grapes, fudge AP: clody earl grey tea colored body, steady of white head F: Belgian yeast, grapes, fudge, strong carbonation, round flavour a bit strong sharp alcoholic tendense, undifined fruit flavors Read an paper today regarding this Ale. According to the story this ale was much better a couple of years ago and to get the same kind of sense, one should test a Loterbol Bruin instead...

Brown with a huge, dense head. Fruit aroma: peach and dried fruits and a very sweet flavour with notes of Belgian yeast and vine. Full-bodied.