Van Diest Früli Strawberry Beer

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

Your basic fruit beer. the strawberries made it intriguing to me. Great Strawberry flavor, and a hint of spice. The hint of spice makes it better than your average massively fruited beer but not much. Definitely more fruit than beer.

Bottle. Pours a reddish orange, quite murky body with a dense, off-white/pink, medium sized head that leaves some nice lacings. Frozen and tawing strawberries, rather artificial and sweetish, with powdersugar and some sourish notes. Sweet flavor with white sugar and strawberry. Strawberry finish too. Sticky in the mouth. A quite nice fruitbeer in a way, but I’m not overly content with it. (080112)

Bottle. Brown / orange colour with a white head. Strong aroma of sugar and ripe strawberry. Flavour is the same. I like this one.

250mL bottle from the LCBO in Toronto. Pours a nice, cloudy dark brown. Smells like children’s cough syrup - ugh. The taste is, not surprisingly, of strawberries. Better than children’s cough syrup anyway. This is like strawberry juice. (Well, I suppose it IS strawberry juice.) Which isn’t so bad, I suppose - unless you were hoping for something resembling a beer.

Sampled as ’Frubee Strawberry’:
Deep orange/ruby coloured body with severe hazyness and a nice pinkish head with some cream colour to it. Aroma of yeast, caster sugar, malt and you guessed it: pure strawberries...very nice. Medium to Full-bodied; Wierd tartness and strong flavours up front with a bunch of alcohol and malt noticeable then fading to an all out fruit attack. Aftertaste shows some of the lingering bitterness, but mostly fruity and almost no alcohol is noticeable. Overall, this beer is alright - not enough going on for me to truly enjoy...but its good to sample. I sampled this 25 cL bottle purchased at K&E Discount Liquors in New Paltz, New York on 15-December-2005.

250ml bottle. Pours a cloudy bubbly, reddish brown colour. Smells almost entirely of strawberries, with a hint of sourness. Very sweet, quite smooth. Kind of reminds me of a strawberry soda mixed with some alcohol. Doesn’t really taste like a beer, but I quite like it.

Brown bottle, 250 ml, purchased at the LCBO in Sioux Lookout; eye: brown with a strawberry hue, no effervescence, tiny beige head that disappears rapidly; nose: lots of strawberry, fruity, sugar, strawberry yogout; mouth: lots of strawberry, then a wave of sugar, a bit of malt, cloying finale with a lot of strawberry, quite sweet, average carbonation, medium body, a bit thin; overall: once is enough FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 250 ml, achetée au LCBO à Sioux Lookout; oeil : brune avec une teinte fraise, pas d’effervescence, petite mousse beige qui disparaît rapidement; nez : très fraise, fruitée, sucre, yogourt aux fraises; bouche : beaucoup de fraise, puis une grosse vague de sucre, un peu de malt, yogourt aux fraises, finale toquante avec beaucoup de fraise, très sucrée, carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen, un peu mince; en résumé : une fois, c’est assez

Not bad at all - don’t believe everything you read on ratebeer. Tiny pink head, red-grapefruit-pink shades in the body. Quite fresh strawberry aroma. Taste mushed strawberries but remember to leave out the yeast. Without it, it’s dry and fresh.