7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cloudy amber color, big head. Deep malt aroma, Madeira touch. Good body structure, some malt. Even 2 years after the expiry date it's still quite good.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2003
at 01:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cloudy brown beer with a medium head. Spicy nose with a lot of character. Hide the alcohol very well. I was expecting a very industrial beer but it seems this may be an exception. Very suprised and pleased by this beer. Adding "fruit" in the name might be misleading since this is more of a belgin strong ale than a fruit beer à la leifman...
Tried
on 23 Jun 2003
at 05:52
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark brown; brownish, thick dense head. Nose of candi-syrup, coriandre, some dark malts. Sweet and roasted malts in the taste. Slightly perfumey - I'm thinking of chestnut flour. Thick mouthfeel. A bit soupy. An industrial brown. OK, not very refined.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2003
at 23:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thick creamy head with irregular to very large bubbles, collapsing but reasonably stable. Peachy colour, hazey. Nose with coriander, white candi sugar, pefumed, citrussy. Very perfumed taste as well, slightly bitterish - orange peel taste, wheaty. Lots of sweetness left. Fizzy mouthfeel. Bitterish, spicey aftertaste. Much citruspeel again, and some kind of exotic fruit. Hoegaarden Grand Cru used to be a beer on its own - uninterchangeable. Maybe it still is. But I do miss the Pierre Celis - touch.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2003
at 23:28
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This is the first white beer I ever tried and I was very dissapointed, it was nothing I expected from a belgian beer. Small head that goes away quickly and an interesting aroma. Little body and nothing special about it whatso ever.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2003
at 14:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
It has an amber colour, and there are some structures in the beer, I don't know how you call it, but it looks a bit like a spider's web. The flavour is dominated by malt. Little bit sweet aftertaste.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2003
at 10:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
For Ratebeers' sake - normally I wouldn't touch this stuff with a nine-foot long pole... Well-known hazy-yellow-with-the-greenish shine. Not huge, but persistent lacey white head. The inevitable coriandre-cum-orangepeel... Perfumed, like a fragrance for a fourteen-year old fan of the Spice girls. Surprisingly bitter for a fleeting moment at first. Then it falls flat. Less spices in the taste, not much citrus , which was the strenght of the original Celis Hoegaarden. Warming up, the coriandre gets through more and more. Light bodied, empty palate; no new aftertaste, just a bit more orange. Whyever this beer became a world classic, I'll never understand. Unless because it's even blander than the usual Pilsener?
Tried
on 25 May 2003
at 09:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
An unclear orange beer with a good head. The aroma is sweet, yeasty and with notes of orange. The flavor is also sweet, with notes of orange and alcohol - it ends on a slightly bitter note. A very nice beer.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2003
at 07:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
An unclear orange beer with a small head - very bubbly. The aroma is sweet with powerful notes of orange. The flavor is great, with a nice sweetness and powerful orange notes and more faint yeasty notes. Ending on a very faint bitterness. Really a good beer.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2003
at 05:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
An amber beer with a fine head - the body is a bit bubbly. The aroma is yeasty and malty. The flavor is a little thin to start off but then sweet from a fine maltblend with a slight bitterness and notes from yeast and wheat. A fine beer - a big surprise for me from Hoegaarden.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2003
at 02:43