Liefmans Fruitesse Pomme

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

The Lure:
Apple juice sweetness and citrusy candies. Highly artificial and chemical. If there weren’t any alcohol, I would market this towards kids.

The Festivities:
Supersweet candy rockets in a frail body. Real apples will petition to get the word Pomme taken off this label.

Transcendence:
Halloween’s coming up. Again.

(Bottle 25 cl) Pale golden and slightly hazy, white - almost clinically white - head. Pronounced scent of apples. Very pronounced apple flavour which combined with the pronounced sweetness make this resemble apple juice. Slight metallic tang. OK as a quencher. Contains both artificial sweeteners and artificial flavours. 250705

Sweet nose of apples. Light yellow colored beer, medium white head. Quite sweet appla flavor, ends with some slight sourness.

A sweet aroma of apple juice with some sourness, but a artificial taste. (Bottle 25cl)

Bottled. Pale hazy yellow coloured. Nice apple juice aroma with notes of yeast. Sweet apple candy flavour. Slightly artificial. Rather thin.

Bottle Pale, yellow body. White, diminishing head. Nose of apple juice. Moderately sweet, lightly acidic flavour.

Very pale colored. Overpowering articifial apple juice aroma. Sugary apple juice flavor with some fruity sourness and grape sugar. Berentzen Apfelkorn (very popular with teenage girls in my village) flavor, but without the alcohol kick. Thin. Not good, but preferred to Apfelkorn with lemonade.

Bottle, Brussels, Nov 2004. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly lasting. Body is light yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (cookie), with a strong note of [artificial] apple. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Soda pop in beer, and not much of the latter.