Hoegaarden Verboden Vrucht

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

Aroma:Fruit and yeast Appearance:Red-gold with yeast Flavor:Fruit,malt,yeats spicy Good beer

Reddish colour with off white head, that lasts. Sweet aroma with notes of yeast and spices. Spicy flavour with notes of yeast.

The beer has an amber claret orange color hue and a nice rocky head. the nose sweet fruitness spicy, in the aroma with orange, fig and spicy coriander, that follows through a round malty- spicied fruity acidic palate of orange acidity, sweet brown sugar and coriander with in a medium body. I love this beer!

Bottle. This beer states that it is the original forbidden fruit. Pours to a hazy dark appearance with a medium head which quickly disappears. Quite spritzy and some spicy notes but distinctly mediocre.

Bottle. The colour is brown with a tint of red; the liquid is cloudy. The finger-thick head is quite compact and beige.

The smell is rather weak with some alcohol, yeast and that sour wheat-beer touch.

The carbonation is really strong with small bubbles that build lots of foam in the mouth.

The taste is fruity with a quite weak body, the bitterness is potent but there are also some funny metallic flavours. The aftertaste is sourish – bitter with a salt touch of broth.

To be frank, this beer was a disappointment to me; it turned out to be just an almost average Belgian dark strong ale.

After all that buildup, and hearing it could not be found in the States, I finally tried it in Hackney, London. And my opinion? Meh. Not as fruity, nor as rich and complex as I’d hoped. Kind of a mediocre Belgian Ale, I’d say- kind of on par with a Maredsous.

A hazy dark reddich colour with a average head. Sweet hops aroma. Spicey malt flavour

This dark amber beer pours with a modest tan head, eliciting a light fruity aroma. The malty flavor is enhanced with several spices, most noteably coriander. A good brew.