Fruli
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Van Diest
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Früli or Fruli is a range of fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
flavoured beer
Beer
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s with an alcohol content of 4.7% ABV
Alcohol by volume
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. The Belgian brewery which produces this range is called Brouwerij Huyghe
Huyghe Brewery
Huyghe Brewery is a brewery founded in 1906 in Belgium by Leon Huyghe in city of Melle in East Flanders. The site of the brewery has been in operation since 1654. However, the brewery has been modernized and expanded on several occasions since the founding of Huyghe...
. Früli is a blend of 70% white beer and 30% fruit juice.
Awards and public response
Früli won the gold medal at the International Beer Competition 2004. In 2009, Früli was announced as the "Worlds Best Fruit Beer" by the judges of the World Beer Awards.The high intensity of the strawberry taste in the strawberry Früli tends to polarise the general public's response. Those who prefer an intensely fruity taste to their fruit beers claim that Früli is the most natural-tasting fruit beer (in fact, devotees of the slightly sweeter fruit beers tend, perhaps unsurprisingly, to rate the distinctly sweet strawberry Früli more highly than any other beer).
By contrast, those who like their fruit beers to be more 'beery' (and those with only limited affinity for fruit beers) tend to find the fruit intensity of Früli excessive and overwhelming, and find the taste of Früli to be unnatural, often raising questions as to whether Früli qualifies as a beer in anything but name and manufacturing process. Detractors often also complain of a perceived artificiality or inappropriateness in the sweetness, which they find reminiscent of sherbet
Sherbet
Sherbet may refer to:- Foodstuffs :* Sherbert , an effervescent drink or a fizzy powder sweet, chiefly UK* Sherbert, an American term for a frozen dessert like sorbet, but containing a small amount of dairy...
or cream soda
Cream soda
Cream soda is a sweet carbonated soft drink, often flavored with vanilla.-History and development:A recipe for cream soda—written by E.M. Sheldon and published in Michigan Farmer in 1852—called for water, cream of tartar, Epsom salts, sugar, tartaric acid, egg, and milk, to be mixed together, then...
which most likely derives from Fruli's strong and distinctly vanilla
Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, Flat-leaved Vanilla . The word vanilla derives from the Spanish word "", little pod...
-like after-taste which is only partially balanced by the characteristic sourness (very familiar to those acquainted with Hoegaarden Beer) of white beer.