Liefmans de Boomgaard Tropicale

Formerly brewed at Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Fruit Beer
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Fruity aroma with light orange color. This has a nice mango/tropical flavor and is very easy to drink.

Date: 4/29/2007
Event: River’s Bend Belgian Workshop / Abbey Dubbel Brewout
Location: Ken’s House
Serving: 12.7 oz (375 ml) bottle shared by Lance, I believe. Thanks again!

Tasting Notes
Aroma: Sweet mango.
Appearance: Peach color with some sediment in it. Actually, it looks a bit like pear juice until it settles out a bit. It also has a thin white crown.
Flavor: Sweet with a nice mango flavor to it.
Palate: Light body and light on the palate. Very refreshing and a nice change of pace.
Overall: I actually enjoyed this beer quite a bit. The mango flavor was a nice derivation from the usual fruit choices. I think my wife would probably love this beer. Too bad she wasn’t there to try any!

Bottle. Pours a light copper/amber color, without much of a head. Aroma captures the essence of mango, with some yeast and some spices. You can taste the mango with the first sip. There is definitely some sweetness, but not over-powering. Very crisp and very refreshing.

2005 Bottle, Sampled in 2008:
Hazy orange coloured body with a nice thin off-white head. Aroma of apricots, mangoes, apples, pears and even some passion fruit. Medium-bodied; Great sweet fruity flavour shows well up front with some light malt and wheat behind with a tiny amount of alcohol noticeable too. Aftertaste shows a lot of sweet fruit with very little else. More of a fruit beer than a lambic by all senses, but definitely nice to try. Overall, worth trying if you like fruit beers or if you’ve got a girlfriend/wife that you’d like her to try the beer too! I sampled this 37.5 cL split bottle, purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 19-March-2008.

Weird to see a Belgian beer with only 25 ratings and all of them in the US. Anyway, I rather enjoyed this changeup from the normal lambics. Will try this again.

Slightly hazy golden body with a medium creamy white head. Sweet fruity mango aroma with a tart background. Very sweet mango flavor with a slightly tart ending.

Yeasty apricot aroma. Hazy golden with clinging bubbles. Solid apricot flavor which turns to peaches and oats. Strangely, this tasted more peche-like than their peche.

Slightly sour aroma of apricots and mangos. Hazy apricot color with tiny bubbles and a bit of a head which did not persist. Starts with a confusing blend of fruit, mango quickly dominates and disappears into a light fruitiness. Carbonation is light. Hint of tart/sour. Very low key. Nice on a hot central valley day.