Mongozo Palmnut
Brouwerij Huyghe in Melle, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Traditional Beer Regular|
Score
5.42
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A one-of-a-kind top-fermented beer, brewed with roasted malts and African palm nuts, based on an authentic recipe from Angola, South West Africa, thanks to Henrique Kabia. Traditionally drunk from a calabash, a type of gourd.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Aroma of malt, caramel, yeast, nuts, fruity notes, some candy sugar. Flavour is medium sweet with a light bittersweet finish. Not terrible but too sweet and sugary.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2025
at 13:11
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Slightly bitter soapy aroma. Bitter nutty soapy afteratste. Alcoholic, in spite of the modest ABV. Not worth a retry.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl bottle from Intermarché Estaimpuis supermarket. F: big, beige, average retention. C: coppery with yeasty debris. A: malty, sweet herbal mellow fruity, caramel, sugary, bit nutty. T: medium malty base, bit mellow fruity, red berries, herbal, caramel, medium body and carbonation, quite weird combo but not totally bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2019
at 09:48
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2018
at 12:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Maltig, zoet, kokos, altbierachtige neiging. (11-2017).--.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2017
at 12:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Terre de Boissons Calais and drunk at home. Clear brown/amber lasting off white head. Not sure what this is supposed to taste like. A little nutty perhaps. Not too sweet. It’s fine to be honest. Like a strong ale with some nuttiness. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2015
at 17:17
6/10
Tried
on 02 Jun 2015
at 00:25
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
330ml bottle cheers jeevan! Pours clear amber, thin off-white head. Aromas are nutty, caramel. Taste is oddly bitter, nutty, them sweet at the end. Weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2014
at 10:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Palm nut beer allegedly to an African recipe. Sweet, caramelly and sugary, with nutty, bit weird but not uninteresting aroma and a hint of toasted malts. Significantly better than the coconut and banana versions but still an overtly sweet, weird concoction.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2014
at 12:11
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at home. Pours dark amber, nose is sugary caramel, taste is sugary sweet, fizzy, a little nutty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2014
at 10:36