{"id":75,"date":"2007-01-12T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=75"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:28","slug":"beer-reviews-mongozo-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Beer reviews: Mongozo Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/uploads\/Mongozo.jpg\"class=\"alignright\"  title=\"Mongozo\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nBeer name: <b>Mongozo Banana<\/b><br \/>\nOrigin: <b>Melle, Belgium<\/b><br \/>\nBrewer: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.be\/\" title=\"Brouwerij Huyghe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brouwerij Huyghe<\/a><\/b> (they have a rubbish website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mongozo.org\/\" title=\"Mongozo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mongozo<\/a> is more helpful.<br \/>\nAlc. Vol: <b>4.8%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As the name suggests, this is a banana flavoured beer, and to be honest I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to be any good.  I&#8217;ve had banana beer before and it wasn&#8217;t very nice, so it was a very pleasant surprise when I opened up the Mongozo!<\/p>\n<p>Opening up the bottle, I was greeted by a fragrant aroma of bananas.  Since this is a banana beer that may not surprise you, but my experience with flavoured beer is that it rarely lives up to it&#8217;s supposed flavour, so it was very nice to smell something which actually resembled what the bottle claimed it to be.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised yet again when I poured it into a glass, not only by the bright yellow banana colouring, but also by the small bits of banana floating in my glass!  Thats right, this beer wasn&#8217;t just made with bananas, they actually left some bits of banana in it!  I actually sat and stared at it for a while before I drank, because the small bits of banana were actually floating around in the glass, being lifted up to the top by the gases being released, and then sinking back down again.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should have expected as much by now, but I was once again impressed by just how much the beer tasted like banana.  Indeed I would liken it to a banana milkshake more than a beer.  Thankfully it also had a slight bitter edge to it, which made it very pleasant to drink, although it&#8217;s still a very sweet beer.  Definately one to have with your fruity pudding!<\/p>\n<p>This beer was thoroughly enjoyable, although it&#8217;s sweetness does mean it&#8217;s not the kind of thing I would have in a pub, I certainly would enjoy it after an evening meal.  For me this gets a good solid four out of five.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/uploads\/beer4.png\" title=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer name: Mongozo Banana Origin: Melle, Belgium Brewer: Brouwerij Huyghe (they have a rubbish website, Mongozo is more helpful. Alc. Vol: 4.8% As the name suggests, this is a banana flavoured beer, and to be honest I wasn&#8217;t expecting it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=75\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}