Mongozo Coconut 3.5%

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottle sample. Turbid yellow with minimal head. Powerful coconut aroma, with sugar powder, flowers and honey. Sweet, somewhat artificial coconut flavor, zero bitterness and faint light malt. Light, juice-like, hard to drink and gimmicky.

Appearance is cloudy yellow, with a thin white head. Aroma is really coconutty, a tiny hint of yeast. Taste is very sweet, a bit of citrus and pineapple/mango. The whole drink is more like a pina colada than a beer - but it is really tasty and smells great so I have to give it high marks. On the palate it is creamy with a light fizz. This drink has me stumpted - I don’t normally like a really sweet alcoholic drink but this tastes more like fruit juice and is delicious and smells great. I want to hate it but it’s really, really good. The only marks it loses are for not being a real beer. It also gets a bit sickly towards the end...

Clearing backlog. No comments. Apologies, future ratings will have detail. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

330ml bottle bought at Belgian Beer Intl in Tsuen Wan. Cloudy hazy beige white colour which resembles a cross between coconut juice and dirty water; Very thin head and white foam which last about 30 seconds; Small and sticky lacing with notable carbonation; Potent aroma of coconut milk, coconut meat, coconut juice, candy sugar, hint of pineapple, and very light wet cardboard; Medium sweet taste of apple juice, coconut juice, coconut candy, very light malt, very faint wet cardboard (not offensive), and slight hint of grass; Mid to light body, slick palate; Taste profile is overwhelmingly coconut - candy, meat, and juice - in a light apple juice background. Coconut sweetness is not cloying at all, but increasingly heavy with more sips, and it is actually less sweet than the Banana Beer of the same brand. Malt (or was it quinoa?) is detectable, albeit a light one. All ends with a slight tart finish; Hoppiness is near zero but detectable in the palate, does not contribute much for any finish; Slightly dry after taste, extremely easy to mouth.

Comments: much like Mongozo’s Banana, I taste this one with an open mind. Although its smell is all coconut, its taste does retain some recognizable fruit limbic character, and were it’s not the presence of wet cardboard, its taste will be even more enjoyable. If you are looking for fruit beer with strong malt and hop characters, then this one will certainly disappoint. As a light-hearted refreshment, however, I don’t mind another second helping, as long as I have a little more room for my stomach.

Milky, cloudy, pineapple juice like pour. And there it goes down the drain. It tastes like a bad, pre-made cocktail. Awful awful stuff.

Pours yellow hazy straw with thin long lasting white head. Aroma is overwhelmingly coconut. Not subtle. Taste is coconut and extremely sweet yet thin body. Not that pleasant.

0,33 bottle from some store i dont remember. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Extreme sweet aroma og bad Bounty. Taste is very fake and fake sweet. Horrible.

Hazy golden orange with some sediment with a thin, fizzy, lacy, disappearing white head. Strong smell of fake coconut candy. Sort of like a Bounty candy bar. Light thin watery body with soft carbonation. Sweet taste of coconut but in an artificial, chemical sort of way. A bit of biscuit that finishes slightly sickly acidic. Not as pleasant as I hoped it would be. Sort of gross.

33cl bottle. Too sweet, poor body, artificial aromas and flavours. Waste of money and liver...

33cl bottle from Cave Direct Pale cloudy yellow with thin white head. Coconut aroma very much in evidence and in the taste.Far too sweet and sickly but had to try out of curiosity,or was it a bet?!Not my drink at all but i imagine it will work for some.