Van Diest Früli Strawberry Beer

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Fruit Beer
Melle, Belgium

250th rating of this brew. Pours a pinkish red with a tan head. Nose is sweet and pretty full of strawberry for a beer so lowly rated. Though I can appreciate the strawberry soda/strawberry candy comments, its not a real strawberry flavor, guessing its syrup or juice (oh I see it is juice) probably from Concentrate if you ask me.Taste is sweet and strawberry too sweet, but more drinkable than I would have guessed worth while to try blending with something bigger perhaps.

[414-20070709] 250mL. Strawberry wine shortcake aroma. Murky, dark red body with a medium-lasting bubbly white head. More fruit punch than beer, flavour is strongly strawberry (you can almost feel the seeds) and lightly plastic. Medium body. Refreshing summer brew. (8/3/8/3/14) 3.6

[2330B-20090724] Sample. Sweet super strawberry juice aroma. Hazy, light pink red body with a quick foamy light pink head. More strawberry juice in the flavour, very sweet. Medium body. Fruity and great for a summer patio, more like a cooler than a beer though. (6/3/7/3/10) 2.9
(@ LCBO-Bayview; Toronto, ON)

Bottle shared with Grand Genie. Orange brown hazy apperrence with no lacing and minimal pinkish head. Aroma: strawberry shortcake, peach,cranberries and vanilla. Flavor: maple sirop, salt, rhubarb, strawberries. Palate: soft carbonation, light and sweet.

Bottle @ Metro. 4.1%. Clear, strawberry coloured pour with a weak white head, little retention. Aroma is strawberries (like those Campino candies). Taste is very sweet, strawberries and sugar and quite light. A great dessert beer.

Pinkish blush with a thinning slick of suds. Succulent strawberry snout. Full fruit juicy sweetness with a balancing hint of acidity and bitterness in the finish. Refreshing and natural-tasting, but any wheat beer character is completely smothered by the strawberry. Top quality alcopop.

Sampled this at the Porthouse location on Nassau street in Dublin. 99% sure this is just their Weiss beer that’s combined with strawberry puree in secondary. Pours a hazy, strawberry colored red with a thin, creamy white head. Aroma is fruit, strawberries obviously with some banana mixed in. Flavor is the same, the strawberry flavor doesn’t overpower the weiss beer flavors though. Finish is clean. Nice fruit beer, not too fruity and easy to drink.

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.

11.2oz bottle, pours hazy light reddish brown, small light pink head, aroma is strong with ripe strawberries, small orange peel, deeply aromatic, taste is beer with strawberry juice nothing outstanding, crisp dry finish, nothing special.