Smell – The aroma of the brew is heavy of a strawberry jam aroma mixed with smells of bread and a bit of spice. Smells very much of toast and strawberry jam. Fruli’s Alcohol By Volume at 4.1% is not too challenging & just enough to offset the natural sweetness of the juice. Poured into glass red color smell of fresh strawberries add an ice cube or 2 it makes it a little less sweet.

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Appearance – The beer pours a pinkish red color with a puffy head of pink colored foam. The head is fizzy, and fades rather fast leaving a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass. After filtration on a mash filter, the wort is boiled with fresh hops, crushed coriander and crushed dried orange peels. Real strawberry juice and wheat beer. Juice not essence is used which provides the crucial taste difference and texture and makes Fruli a smooth drinking beer with mass channel appeal. Smells are strawberry and some citrus. Tastes never get saccharine sweet and I'm not sure why or how. And that sets Fruli apart from the field. It sits softly in my mouth (must be that wit allusion.) A nice drying sensation, possibly from the wit-like spices. The Barley malt and wheat are mixed with water at a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius, according to the ‘infusion mash method’.

I've now reviewed all eight of Huyghe's with Chicagoland distribution. Fruli is not my favorite Huyghe, but it could be among my Top Five fruities. The beer is transferred into tanks where the strawberry juice is added for a second fermentation of 10 days. By Looks, Fruli is barely above average. Like a lot of fruities, Fruhli has a pretty color... particularly in the sunlight; but the foam/yeast action could be bubblier. (Even considering that this bottle seems to be two years past its printed Best By date.)