The first beer from a new hobby brewery in Leuven going commercial (since last year), centering around infusing exotic flavours into traditional Belgian ales (and ignorantly - or arrogantly - referring to this approach, which has been done before for decades, as a new beer style, dubbing it "authentic Belgian beer" - go figure...). This 'Mangold' is spiced with curaçao and fruited with allegedly 'freshly harvested mangos', but seen that this fruit is cultivated in tropical Asia, this seems highly unlikely; according to these guys' website, the idea is to evoke reminiscences of faraway holidays in a time governed by a pandemic and the restrictions associated with it. Well, I guess this idea is not so bad after all, considering the gloomy, rainy, dark weather we have to endure in Belgium these days... Thick and densely moussy, thickly plaster-like lacing, snow white, pillowy but slowly thinning head on a misty orange blonde beer with peachy glow and tiny dots of proteins floating around everywhere. Aroma of mango indeed jumps out immediately but in a very soapy, industrial kind of way, far removed from freshly harvested mango - in fact many NEIPAs evoke mango assocations more accurately without even using mango; other than that, I get impressions of red or green candy, bath foam (even lavender-scented conditioner), bubblegum and a lot of it, halfripe banana, candy apple, lemonade, vague caramel and even vaguer green tree leaves, bread crust and tea. Sweet onset - as sweet as feared based on the nose, but luckily not cloying to the teeth too much; restrained fruitiness of green banana, apple peel and some dried peach, medium to even slightly soft carbonation. Slick, very soapy mouthfeel, smooth-edged cereally and lightly caramelly malt core remaining covered under this blanket of artificial fruit sweetness, reminiscent of mango alright, but in a non-fresh and non-expressive, dull and almost 'cartoonish' way. Slight bitterness in the end, thankfully, from a herbal hop accent but also from the dried citrus peel, accentuating the overall soapiness; the whole bath foam effect fully returns retronasally. Ends sweet, continuously soapy in the worst way possible, and a bit thin, with a dull but consistent bitterness thinly coating the back of the mouth. At least these guys are honest about where this concoction is brewed - though only on the label (not on their website) and in very small print - but that is about the only positive thing I can say here; the mango, in whatever form it was added, is paired with a childish candy-like sweetness I thoroughly hate in beer (I would be drinking lemonade otherwise!) and which annoys me from the nose to the finish - as does that over-the-top soapiness. I was not expecting a mental journey to tropical Asia as I have never even been there, but at least they could have created a more 'believable' and serious beer with that kind of premiss? This feels obsolete, childish and totally unbalanced - one of the worst to come out of BeerSelect's ongoing stream of mediocre beers so far, for me at least. Sorry guys - and by 'guys', I mean the BeerSelect crew rather than the two self-proclaimed 'brewers' who came up with this silliness.