Category Archives: Fruit Beer
#246 – Mystic Limoen
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3.8 % I often feel small pangs of guilt when having to write the odd bad thing about a beer; I mean at the end of the day it’s just my opinion right? There is however, … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Haacht
Tagged as Acesulfame, aspartame, Belgian beer, FDA, Sunett, Sweet-One
#209 – Hoegaarden Citrons
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3 % You only need to read the review of Hoegaarden (#81) to understand why the beer I am drinking today has ever come to exist. I am almost certain that if Pierre Celis still looked … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Fruit Beer, Hoegaarden (InBev)
Tagged as AB/InBev, Boscoulis, Citrons, de Kluis, Floris, Grisette, Hoegaarden, Jacobins, Oriental Brewery, Pierre Celis
#189 – Super des Fagnes Griottes
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.8 % Griotte is a French term which defines the genus of sour cherries known scientifically as Prunus cerasus. The crop is largely cultivated in Europe and southwestAsia, and is similar to the regular wild cherry, … Continue reading →
#166 – Floris Ninkeberry
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3.6 % Perhaps only the makers or marketeers of Floris Ninkeberry really know why this beer is thus called. This was the first time I had ever tried a fruit beer from the colourful Floris range, … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Aikaterine, Apricot, beer, Belgian, Dovetail, Floris, Fruit, Hecate, Huyghe, Katateino, Mango, Ninke, Ninkeberry, Passion Fruit, peach, pure, wheat
#74 – Agrumbocq
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3.1 % DuBocq announced their newest beer with the following – “After the Applebocq and the Redbocq, the Brasserie du Bocq is pleased to announce the birth of the Agrumbocq”. I wonder if the Director of … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Du Bocq, Fruit Beer
Tagged as Agrumbocq, Air Bud, Applebocq, Blanche de Namur, Du Bocq, fields, grapefruit, lime, mandarin, Per Agrum Ad Sacrum, Redbocq, Schweppes, soccer, soil, sport, Tim Webb
#54 – Bon Secours Myrtille
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % While shopping for groceries in a small supermarket in Diekirch in Luxembourg, I spotted the Bon Secours Myrtille at a reassuringly tempting price. This looked interesting I thought, and so added it to the … Continue reading →
Filed under 3, Caulier, Fruit Beer
Tagged as beer, Belgian, bilberry, blueberry, Bon Secours, eyes, Fruit, Luxembourg, Myrtille, RAF, swing top
#24 – Fruli Strawberry
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4.1 % I love the ‘Good Beer Guide: Belgium’. I love the ‘Good Beer Guide: Belgium’ so much because of its waging of war on the fruit flavoured beers. I asked author Tim Webb why he … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Fruli, Guide, Huyghe, Strawberry, Van Diest, Webb, wheat
#1 – Mongozo Banaan
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4.5% Starting on the first tenacious steps of the road to a thousand Belgian beers, you might be forgiven for wanting to begin with a classic. I however decided to largely let fate decide my path, … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Africa, banana, Belgian beer, Chukwe, Henrique Kabia, Huyghe, Masai, Mongozo, palm nut
