Green apple has a specific kind of tartness — not the rounded sweetness of a red apple, not the sharpness of a straight-fermented cider, but something in between: bright, slightly sour, with a sweetness that arrives after the initial bite rather than leading with it. Brouwerij Huyghe in Melle built their Newton range around that character, extending their fruit-beer production into the apple category with a beer that pours pale gold-green and leads with tart green apple over a light wheat base. If you are Belgian and living in Tokyo and the Floris fruit wheats are already familiar, the Newton Green Apple is the range extension that moves into different flavour territory — sharper, more tart, and with a sweet-sour finish that sets it apart from the softer expressions in the Huyghe lineup
Melle’s tart green apple fruit beer, from the 2010s
Brouwerij Huyghe was founded in 1906 in Melle, East Flanders, and the Newton range was developed in the 2010s as an extension of the brewery’s fruit-flavoured beer production. Where the Floris range draws on the Belgian fruit wheat tradition with softer, sweeter expressions — strawberry, peach, passion fruit, chocolate — the Newton range applies a similar approach to apple, producing a beer that sits closer to the cider-adjacent flavour profile than the Floris expressions do.
The Newton Green Apple Beer pours pale gold-green, its colour signalling the tart apple character before the bottle is opened. The aroma is tart green apple — direct and recognisable — sitting over a light wheat body that provides enough structure to carry the flavour without adding malt weight. The finish is sweet-sour: the initial tartness of the apple resolving into a mild sweetness that keeps the beer from finishing as sharply as the aroma suggests. At 3.5% ABV, it is an accessible drink for a wide table, low enough in alcohol to fit any point in an afternoon and light enough in body to suit warm weather without effort.
How Newton Green Apple Beer is drunk at home
Santé! / Op uw gezondheid! (sahn-TAY / op-uw geh-ZONT-hayt) — French and Flemish respectively, both meaning “to your health.” Brouwerij Huyghe sits in Flemish East Flanders, where the Flemish toast is the natural call — though at a Belgian table that includes guests from across the linguistic divide, both are heard without comment.
In Belgium, a fruit beer at 3.5% with a tart apple character belongs to the informal and social part of the occasion. At a Sunday family lunch that moves through multiple beers across courses, the Newton Green Apple tends to arrive early — alongside Belgian fries with mayonnaise when the table is still gathering, the tartness of the apple cutting through the fat of the mayonnaise in a way that a sweeter fruit beer does not. Moules-frites suits it in the same register: the briny mussels and the tart apple find a working counterpoint, the sweetness in the finish providing enough balance to keep the pairing from becoming too sharp. Stoofvlees and the heavier ales belong to a later part of the meal; the Newton Green Apple is the beer that opens the afternoon and makes space for what comes after.
Belgian beer festivals, where Brouwerij Huyghe’s range occupies a visible position in the flavoured beer category, give the Newton range an audience that the Floris expressions have already warmed up — people who know the Floris Peach or Strawberry and are ready to encounter something with more edge.
How to drink it in Japan
The Newton Green Apple Beer is a warm-season beer in Japan, most at home from May through September when the tart, refreshing character of the apple and the light wheat body suit the heat. It is also a useful beer for the occasions that call for something between a standard lager and a fruit juice — outdoor gatherings in Tokyo, the Belgian National Day on July 21, or any afternoon where the table includes people who do not ordinarily reach for beer.
At 7-Eleven, try it alongside a green apple gummy or a sour fruit candy from the snack section — the tartness of the candy and the sweet-sour finish of the Newton Green Apple occupy the same flavour register, each making the other feel more intentional. For a composed pairing at home, serve it with a cold pork shabu-shabu salad dressed with ponzu and sliced green apple — the citrus acidity of the ponzu and the crisp apple in the dish meet the beer’s tart apple character directly, the light wheat body of the Newton providing enough neutrality to let the ponzu and apple in the dish come forward. It is a pairing that requires no translation between Belgian and Japanese food logic.
Apple-flavoured Belgian beers do not appear in Tokyo’s specialty import shops with any regularity, and the Newton range specifically is unlikely to be found outside of dedicated Belgian beer importers. By the case from Omori Mart — 330ml × 24 bottles — the per-bottle cost is accessible for a fruit beer at this ABV, and the case format covers a full summer of casual outdoor occasions.
Get Newton Green Apple Beer delivered in Japan
Newton Green Apple Beer is available from Omori Mart in a 330ml × 24 bottle case, delivered nationwide across Japan.
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- Nationwide delivery to any address in Japan
Rakuten and Amazon Japan do not carry this label. Omori Mart stocks the Brouwerij Huyghe range in full — from Delirium Tremens through the Floris fruit wheats to the Newton apple expressions that complete the picture.
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Santé in Melle, where Brouwerij Huyghe extended their fruit-beer range into apple territory in the 2010s, and kanpai at a Tokyo table in June — pale gold-green, tart upfront, sweet at the close, and exactly the right temperature.
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