The Hoegaarden you buy in Belgium is yummy, but the stuff here tastes different. InBev (the world's largest megabrewer, incidentally based in Brussels) has bought up a lot of the small Belgian breweries and started producing export versions in mass quantities...I think Hoegaarden and Leffe are just a couple of examples. InBev also brews a certain lager that sells extremely well in American ballparks, so perhaps that has affected the Hoegaarden export recipe.
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I had Hogarden once and I thought it tasted like bacon. Didnt like it. I've never heard anybody else say it tasted like bacon. And I never had it since. I wonder if bacon taste is a defect. Try another batch
