Boscoli Fruits des Bois
Brouwerij Het Anker in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.78
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This gastronomic term for a sauce on the basis of fresh fruit, has made us dream. 
Made on the basis of a white ale and enriched with natural fruit juice, Boscoli is a fruity beer for beautiful days, beautiful terraces and beautiful eyes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
330ml bottle kindly shared by Finn. Noisy pinkish head over an opaque dark reddish body, spotty lacing. Smell of sweet red berries. Sweet strawberries to the taste buds. Prolonged ending. Soft drink impression. Drinkable, but one-off for me. (Tromsø 23.07.2021).
Finn (14770) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Delt med Rune på Nerstranda. Mørk rosenrødt. Uklar. Middels høyt kremaktig skum med rosaskjær. Heftig jordbæraroma. Smaken det samme. Overmoden bær.
fonefan (62248) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Het Anker Boscoli Fruits des Bois ].Light unclear medium red colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white - pik head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, ice - ice cream, sweet fruit - sweet berries, forest berries - forest fruit, strawberry, wild berries. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average duration, strawberry, cream, forest berry - forest fruit, syrup. herbal, ice cream, sugary, raspberry notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180303] 5-3-6-3-12
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
F: big, off-pink, average retention. C: dark red, bit hazy. A: candy, forest fruits candy, red fruits, white sugar. T: sweet red fruits, red fruits candy, artificial raspberries, very sweet and artificial but not disaster, at least average but for me not enjoyed, medium body and carbonation, 33cl bottle from Carrefour market – St. Michel @ Etterbeek, Brussels.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Pours hazy red with a lasting, light pink head. The aroma contains cherry, strawberry, raspberry, red jam and sugar. It tastes one-sidedly heavy sweet. Slick and sticky texture, cloying finish, soft carbonation. Far from the (minor) complexity and stylishness of fruit beers in the Lindemans selection, thus even farther from a ’real’ beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Apparently Het Anker has replaced the old 6.5% version of this beer with a new 3.5% version in 2010 and I only recently noted that this is - correctly - a separate entry here, so I went out and bought a bottle of it at Van Eetvelde in Lokeren. Medium thick, pale lilac, moussy head leaving strongly cobweb-like lacing, over a lightly hazy, ruby red beer with purplish hue. Aroma of red fruit jam jumps to the nose, along with impressions of red candy (not unlike the ’cuberdons’ usually associated with the city of Ghent - rather than Mechelen), grenadine, stewed plums with a lot of sugar, damp cloth, red cabbage cooked with brown sugar, ripe blackberries, pear syrup, industrial blueberry cake, some caramel, iron, ketchup, lemon candy but less exagerrated than expected, fried eggs. Obviously very sweet onset, lots of artificial red fruit - as in: strawberry and blueberry jam, grenadine, and again those cuberdons - sticking to the palate immediately though some - equally artificial and ascorbic - underlying sourishness tries to balance this; carbonation is medium, establishing a slick, smooth mouthfeel impaired by sugary stickiness. This sugary, industrial red fruit jam effect completely covers everything that follows, though a certain caramelly malt sweet touch is still vaguely recognizable underneath, accompanied by a metallic accent which even - unpleasantly - gains some strength in the finish; sweet honeyish and industrial jam-like cloyingness nevertheless keeps dominating even well into the finish, with absolutely no trace of bitterness at all. I am left with an immensely cloying sweetness tenaciously clinging to my teeth and back of the mouth cavity. I have a relatively high esteem of this brewery - not just because it is literally Belgium’s oldest, but more so because they have produced many an interesting beer throughout the years, yet this one is obviously obsolete and redundant at the same time. This brings me back to the early days of this century, when overly sweet ’fruit’ beers were a hype in Belgium - thank God attention has shifted to hops meanwhile, but apparently this kind of appalling sweetness is still around. I have hated this type of beers for many years and this one fills me with nothing but aversion: the old (pre-2010) version at least had some malt sweetness and therefore ’beeriness’ left, regardless of its significantly higher ABV, making me think - I’ll never have the chance to re-evaluate - that it was at least among the more ’complete’ sweet fruit beers around at the time, but this one goes all the way, eliminating anything in nose or mouth that could allow anyone to recognize it as actual beer. I hate this, this is by far the worst Anker beer I ever had. I can imagine that they were seeking to imitate the success of Bockor’s Max, Timmermans’ sweet fruit beers and the like, but a brewery of this stature should know better. Ghastly, to be avoided at all times!
Deanso (15008) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle sampled at the Delft beer festival. Medium creamy pink head. Hazy pink red pour. Sweet artificial taste.
Kermis (23414) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle sampled at Delft Beer Festival. Hazy red with a light pink head. Aroma of sweet red berries, candied red fruits and strawberry milkshake. Flavour is heavy sweet. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation. [28/08/2016]
sjogro (11771) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle shared at home with Maakun. Cloudy and chunky brown with deep red hue. Cream head. Strawberry syrup, forest fruit lemonade, cooked red fruits, sugary sweet, fruitmilk. Very sweet but still quite natural. Body is full texture is like fruitjuice, a homemade smoothie. Fizzy carbo. Funny stuff.
Maakun (15235) reviewed Boscoli Fruits des Bois from Brouwerij Het Anker 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle thanks to sjogro. Murky pink brown with big light pink head. Lots of cooked fruits with strawberry, raspberry, red berries. Light milky and a touch of dough. Very sweet and very light sour. Over medium bodied with a thick fruit juice feel. A lot like liquid jam or pure Roosvicee. Not that bad but has nothing to do with beer.