Have a Hoegaarden in your garden on a hot summer's day! (Hoegaarden White)

Member Name: CabbageBeans

Product:	Hoegaarden White
Date:	02/07/09 (9 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very light and refreshing

Disadvantages: Aftertaste disappears fairly quickly

Hoegaarden is a wheat beer from Belgium that is widely available to buy from most supermarkets, including Sainsbury's. It's only relatively recently when I first tried it, not having had wheat beer before, and immediately became a fan of the beer.

*Appearance*
The beer has a pale cloudy appearance that is almost opaque, but at the same time it almost seems to trap light to give it a strange but rather attractive look in the glass. The beer froths up nicely to give a decent sized head.

*Aroma*
I haven't the best sense of smell in the world, but the beer has a pleasant, almost citrusy scent.

*Taste*
The important one then: The wheat in Hoegaarden lends to it a very light and refreshing taste, satisfying the palate and almost disguising the alcoholic content of the beer altogether - you could quite happily sip a few of these and be surprised if you started to become a bit light headed! As with the aroma, there is a hint of citrus that comes through in the mouth and tends to linger for a few seconds in the after taste.


Conclusion:
This is a lovely and refreshing beer that is absolutely perfect for a hot summer's day, and having tried a couple of different wheat beers since, this still remains my favourite.

Summary: Very nice, light and refreshing wheat beer