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Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit

Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit

Rated 3.634 by BeerPals
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Brewed by Brouwerij Hoegaarden (Interbrew)

Hoegaarden, Belgium

Style:  Belgian Strong Ale

9% Alcohol by Volume

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ID: 3645 Last updated 1 month ago Added to database 23 years ago

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Overall Rank1594
Overall Percentile97.2
Style Rank130 of 1241
Style Percentile89.5
Lowest Score2.3
Highest Score4.5
Average Score3.724
Weighted Score3.634
Standard Deviation0.524

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SIGMUND 7333 reviews
rated 4.0 20 years ago

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

(33 cl bottle, bought in Denmark. ABV was 8.5%.). Cloudy brown with floaties, enormous thick creamy head. Lovely complex aroma of cherries, figs, prunes, spices, oak and sandalwood. Flavour is not quite as complex - malty, some fruit and spices, rather alcoholic, bitter finish. I wish the aftertaste had been as good as the aroma. A beer well above average, but not as good as I expected.

  • VIPINVELP 2001 reviews
    rated 2.8 10 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

    Opaque orange with decent lacing off-White foam head. Aroma is muffled but definitely fruity. Tastes slightly sweet, not quite what my beer buddy and me would call a desert fruit. (Nantes 201402)

  • TROLLE 3 reviews
    rated 3.7 11 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    wonderfull foamy at first sight, which keeps on with a very nice thin film. strong carbon dioxide content which makes it fresh and potent. The colour is brown to mahagonny and the nose is fresh with a clear and strong yeast note and a touch of lychees. The taste is very dominated by yeast with perfect sweetness a touch of honey and in the nose a fine odor of hop. very short after taste.

  • MITCHFORGIE 683 reviews
    rated 2.3 12 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 5

    So this is one of my ridiculous remnants of having something yet knowing nothing of what it is. Bought in 2006 in NZ because I thought the bottle looked cool. Sat on shelf in sun for 2 years. Then moved to Kamloops, sat on shelf for 3 years. Moved, sat in storage for another year. Then had been in my fridge for 6 months as I eye it warily wondering if this could possibly be anything! Beerchronic tells me to write, "review this beer and a beer that sat in a dryer that was constantly on for 6 years". Well its got tons and tons and tons of sediment. Quite a bit of carbonation, beer top popped when opened. After a couple minutes it settled to a skiff but stayed. Smells very sour, but possibly in a good way.... lots of orange peel, spices. Tasted it, really really light in body, gentle flavour, but basically not much except a touch of sour and strange feeling on the tounge. Is it amazing and I am unsophistcated? Or is it garbage? Don't know, but I am not convinced that it is safe to drink per storage life, and so it is going in the drain....

  • MRHANGOVER 126 reviews
    rated 3.3 13 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

    I've had De Verboden Vrucht (dutch for Forbidden Fruit) not in it's original glass, so I'm not sure about the appearance. Colour was amber gold with an aroma full of malts and some fruits. Taste is spicey with some alcohol but not much. Not too interesting taste, compared to the aroma.

  • PHISHPOND417 3045 reviews
    rated 4.1 17 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    A dark amber colour with a medium sized white head. aromas of cloves, prunes, sage and mint tea. flavor is particularly bready with a touch of sweetness. overall very filling. i would like to taste this one again soon.

  • VANDERLA 265 reviews
    rated 3.3 18 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

    Pours a hazy red/brown amber, lots of yeasty chunks, off-white dense head, and a lot of bubbling. Aromas of musky malt & candy sugar, subtle hops. There is a briney note there also, which would allow this beer to go well with Moules et Frittes. A bit light on in flavour, for what I was expecting. I think the carbonation deadens the mouth a bit as it fizzes away... I'll give it a swirl to kick up more head, and maybe lose some of the CO2. With some swirling & warmth, I get a perfumy candy flavour, mostly musk. Maybe I'm getting a bit jaded, but it's seems a bit cliche.... all esters & phenols, not much beyond that... There is an aftertaste of subtle hoppiness. The bitterness is medium. Very effervescent, like its stablemates. Maybe too much so, as it tends to detract from the front-palate flavours.

  • EAGLEFAN538 2299 reviews
    rated 3.6 18 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Re-rate, May 05, bottle shared by Robert at SL. Seems to be a different experience than my first, plenty cherry fruitiness over top of a pilsner malt type base: sulfur, grass. Decent brew. Thanks to Robert for another crack at this one. Original Rating: From a bottle at the Dachsbrau House in Krefeld, Germany, listed as a starkbier. Poured a murky brownish color, maybe some orange hues in there, nice intial fluffy head, some sedimentation. Good retention, decent lacing. A pretty beer, aroma full of dark fruits, spicing, and yeast. The flavor followed suit, adding in caramel and then coriander most prominent among the spices, but this one wasn't overspiced. Smooth, lightly bittered finish from the yeast, along with some pepper that came out as it warmed. A nice beer, but not as good as the Grand Cru I had in Belgium.

  • SUDSMCDUFF 3781 reviews
    rated 3.9 18 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    thank you mR.H Krop...murky brown..everlasting pool....dirty yeast bananna smell,good though...nice bitters..smooth and bloody enjoyable...not an offending beer...fruity and an enjoyable brew.

  • OH6GDX 8411 reviews
    rated 4.0 18 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    Hazy nut brown colour with huge creamy head. Sweet wheat and citric nose. Sweet wheaty and citric flavour with yeast present. Pleasant palate. Lots of yeast in finish.

  • ORVALPLEASE 351 reviews
    rated 3.7 19 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Amber colored with a full head - left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma was a bit woody (cedar) and had a nice dark fruit aspect - cherry pit. Fruit flavors give way to a chewy malt that finishes with a hint of chocolate. Good all around beer.

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