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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by garrickvanburen on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:20PM (#27224064)
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

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by basch on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:23PM (#27225058)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by soperj on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:14PM (#27224925)
I'd second this. I've never tasted anything metallic in a Hoegaarden
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by ska on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:21PM (#27225037)
Sounds more like dirty lines...
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by basch on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:17PM (#27225757)
out of a bottle
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by ska on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:28PM (#27225896)
huh. well then I'm also in the camp of never having experienced it. It wasn't skunked?
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by basch on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:36PM (#27226858)
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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