On Thursday I joined some colleagues for drinks
at The Dovetail, a Belgian beer bar in Clerkenwell, in honour of someone’s last week. A round of fruit
beers was being ordered and I decided to join in, having always been fascinated
by the brightly coloured bottles of Mongozo that I’ve spotted in pub fridges in
the past. I opted for mango flavour, the latest addition to the line that also
includes coconut and banana amongst others. The beer itself was sickly sweet
with a very strong mango flavour and a hint of beeriness. Whilst I’m happy to
have dealt with my curiosity I won’t be buying one of these again; if I want
something sweet I’ll get a juice and if I want a beer I’ll have a beer, as far
as I’m concerned this just offers the worst of both worlds! I also had a sip of
the coconut flavour which I did prefer, but I still don’t really ‘get’ it. The
Mongozo story itself is quite interesting; the idea apparently came from a chap
named Henrique Kabia, a refugee who arrived in the Netherlands from Africa with
nothing but his distant great-grandmothers recipe for palm beer and the knowledge
of how to brew it and went on commercialise it with a variety of fruit
flavourings.
Brewery: Brouwerij Huyghe
Country: Belgium
ABV: 3.6%
*I didn’t manage to get my own picture for this one so the
image is reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Unported license from user Soti
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