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Slightly off-topic, I’m very interested in your “metallic taste of hoegaarden” description.

Metallic taste/smell in beer is a pretty significant fault traced to untreated wwater, old equipment, or lipids in the malt.

There’s lots of stuff in Hoegaarden (and witbiers in general) that can be unexpected or off balance (e.g. coriander, lactic acid, orange zest).

Metallic, at Hoegaardens scale, would be quite unexpected



It has to be one of the ingredients. Maybe only cilantro people can taste it? It's a beer I like that leaves a strange taste in my mouth afterwards.


I'd second this. I've never tasted anything metallic in a Hoegaarden


Sounds more like dirty lines...


out of a bottle


huh. well then I'm also in the camp of never having experienced it. It wasn't skunked?


It's a very faint aftertaste, and its all Hoegaarden. One of the flavors leaves a "just had metal in my mouth" sort of feel after drinking it.




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