Van Diest Früli Strawberry Beer

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

This is a very tough one to rate as it smells, looks and tastes nothing like beer. strong strawberry aroma. pale pink in the glass. tastes like freshly fermented strawberries. This would be very refreshing on a hot day and is perfect for people who don’t like the taste of "beer". It does an excellent job of doing what it wants to do, so kudos for that.

Tap. (as 4,2 % vol). Pours a deep muddy dark red. Has a thin white film head. Aroma has loads of strawberries and a general fruity sweetness. Taste maintains a light sourness, granting ’access’ to the sweet end of strawberry. Mouthfeel has loads of small bubbles and quite a full feel.

250 ml bottle - pours cloudy pink/orange with a pinkish head. Aroma is pretty much like strawberry concentrate. Taste is much the same - sweet strawberry with a sort of dry, tart finish. Not bad, but really one-dimensional. Strawberry juice (from concentrate) in a bottle. There’s no hint of a Belgian wit lurking underneath, nor the coriander and orange peel that the label proudly proclaims. Pure strawberry. If the bottle was any bigger, I probably would have dumped some.

250ml bottle. cloudy murky red with a small pinkish head. looks kinda like tomato juice. strong strawberry smell(not a big surprise). tastes like strawberries (also not a surprise) with a nice tart finish. a bit of an artificial aftertaste. good carbonation. tastes good, but not too much like beer

Pours a unclear red/pink colour, with not head, and a creamy white ring. Strong scents of candy strawberry, very straight forward. Tastes just how it smells, as one dimensional as a beer can get. The palat was ok i guess, carbonation was decent, texture was a bit syrupy though.

draft from Delirium Cafe, Brussels. Courtesy of two English gents on the piss - they insisted this was "the best beer you can get in Belgium" and that it "is something like 15% abv". I enjoyed a chuckle and accepted the freebie. Cloudy pinkish red. Too sweet aroma of strawberries. Taste is part sour young strawberries, part artificial strawberries. Fresh and fruity finish. Creamy mouthfeel. Nice one for your nan.

On tap at the Wellington Arms, Bedford. Murky dark red with a lasting rosy head. Sweet ripe strawberry aroma. Taste could have had a little more tartness, otherwise it has a fairly authentic strawberries-from-the-freezer taste, hovering just on the right side of cloying jamminess. All right, I admit, it was delicious.

Weatherspoons on tap ... Clowdy muddy red ... Sweet with hint of strawb ... sweet strawb very pleasent but with no complexity; Btl at home ... Clowdy red ... sugery strawberry nose ... strawberry ice cream ... very sweet ... huge amount of flavour ... but no depth uping 2.3 to 2.6 as a good occasional.