Hoegaarden Verboden Vrucht

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

0.33 l bottle with a nice label. Hazy reddish brown colour with a nice pale brown head, average carbonation. Intensive sweet and fruity nose, taste’s sweet, too. Spicy aroma of (apricot)fruits and hops, finish’s spicy, bitter and light alcoholy, texture’s light sticky, body’s medium. Good one.

Cloudy brown, beige head which remains a thick coat in a Trappist glass. Smells of berries, dough and grass. Some fizz on the tongue and having it cool keeps the sweetness in balance. Some alcohol burn. Nice enough, but lacks the depth of the better beers in this style.

My cousin bought me this for Christmas. She was in Belgium, in a beer shop, surrounded by hundreds of bottles and grabbed this one for me randomly. I’d never heard of it so I just opened and drank the thing. It has a great aroma but it was more amplified by the taste, which let it down, for me. Candy floss, fruity, yeasty, bready, berries.

Bottle, from Dutch giver, 2009-12-31, Karlskoga, 9 C° This is my New Year treat! AR: Belgian yeast, grapes, fudge AP: clody earl grey tea colored body, steady of white head F: Belgian yeast, grapes, fudge, strong carbonation, round flavour a bit strong sharp alcoholic tendense, undifined fruit flavors Read an paper today regarding this Ale. According to the story this ale was much better a couple of years ago and to get the same kind of sense, one should test a Loterbol Bruin instead...

Brown with a huge, dense head. Fruit aroma: peach and dried fruits and a very sweet flavour with notes of Belgian yeast and vine. Full-bodied.

Redbrown colour, big creamy head. Aroma is very fruity, herbal also. Also some yeast and flowers in the nose. Taste is fruit and hoppy too, a bit sweetlike. Long and a bit dry finish. Fresh and nice beer.

A: I love the bottle with a nude Adam and Eve along with all the French writing and foil…Pretty Cool. Pours with a tall light head that recedes nicely. It is a wonderful reddish brown color, very pretty actually. There are lot of floaters, and little to no lace. S: Nice sweet fruits. Notes of Strawberry, Cherries, and maybe even a little mine apple. Nice Maltiness about it as well. Pretty Nice. T: Nice caramel malty yeasty sweetness up front. Some fruits and a bit of sourness as well. There is a hint of spice also, clove maybe? M: Light and bubbly.

That’s a great strong ale. Aromas of fruits,malts,sugar,caramel. Taste is complicated of fruits (plums,apple,some orange), yeast, caramel and some hints of spicies. Nice body, nice palate. Very well balanced at all.