Hoegaarden Verboden Vrucht

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottled(330ml). –certainly the best Hoegaarden, aroma of yeast and fruit with spicy notes, very rich in flavor , great fresh spicy finish, this beer worth every cent I paid for it

Color is a very deep, dark brownish gold color with a fluffy styrofoamed, light cream colored head that grew to about an inch high after a fairly slow pour. Impressive. Takes forever to settle down to a solid hazy creamed top always present with drippy ink blot lace. Smell is super spiced and fruity, lots of orange and lemon peels. Extremely wafting and strong. Spiced to the hilt with corriander and white pepper with a smokey musky yeast underlay and a alcohol reminscent of rubbing alcohol or cleaner. Hugely strong aroma! Oh yeah! Although the aroma mellows out as it warms. Taste is mild, mellow, and balanced well between dulled orange and lemon with a touch of banana and unripe mango mixing with spices of corriander, pepper, slight cinnamon, clove, yeast, herbal hops and a dry crisping finish grabbing a bit more lingering qualities with fruit peels and spice. Feel is smooth, lightly creamy, and quite full, finishing a bit milder and with a crispy lingering of slight hop bite and dull tangy orangey fruit. What a lovely beer, incredibly enjoyable, a soothing ale with just the right bite and character.

Bottle. Poured a semi-opague mahogany with a very nice foamy head that lasted throughout the glass. Fairly good lacing. Scents of oranges, pineapple, raisins and sugar. Similar tastes occured with the surprise of passion fruit towards the end. Coffee and toffee flavors come forward as well as it warms up. Nice, filling, somewhat higher than average malitiness but still excellent. Superb!

33cl bottle. Tulip glass. Murky dark amber with big beige head that stays. Nice lacing. Aroma is fruity, spicey and sweet. Taste is the same as aroma. Really interesting and good beer.

mmm... beer! Definitely fruity, and a lot higher alcohol content than I’m used to!

330 ml bottle. Cloudy brown color. Good thick head. Good carbonation. Nice caramel taste-like beer. Great beer.

Bottle: Dark orange with a heavy beige head, herbal and spicy aroma. Taste is complex, spicy sweet, strong of yeast. A great after meal beer.

Pours a cloudy, dark amber color with a medium sized lasting off-white head. Nice spicy aroma of yeasts and malts with touches of orange and coriander. Full body with good carbonation, the flavor is fruity and full of yeast, orange, and sweet malts. Impressive!

One of the best smelling ales in a long time, this ale features a smooth but wheatish body and fruity, estery flavors. Perilously easy to drink for such a strong beer.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2005 GOOD! brown, sweet sense, very delicious when touching the tongue.