Fruit - Vegetable Beer

A generic form of flavored beer, some breweries actually use real fruit or veggies, though most use an extract, syrup or processed flavor to give the effect of a particular fruit or vegetable. Usually ales, but with not much ale character to them and commonly unbalanced. Malt flavor is typically hidden with a low hop bitterness to allow the fruit or vegetable to dominate.

 

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Wittekerke Rosé 4.3° - 1/4L - 8.4fl.oz
Weight: 0.550 kg
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This beer is suprizingly tasty. A sweet flavour, a lively color and a sensual body. Its low alcohol content appeal the beer to be more of a fruity soda (beerpop). The appearance is really pink, nice foam and very refreshing. Nice smell of a lot of strawberry's, red fruits, sugars and bubblegum. The taste is marvelous and dangerous sweetness of red fruits, sugar, and very mild. Surprising beer(pop) it is !

Pink Killer 5° - 1/4L - 8.4fl.oz
Weight: 0.550 kg
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After a period of two years of preparation and beer taste sessions, brewery de Silly presents Pink Killer (5vol%), a witbeer (wheatbeer) aromatized with pink grape fruit.. Fruity and thirst-quenching, sugary without being disgusting, the Pink Killer is a wheatbeer with addition of pink grape fruit, what explains the color and the typical grape fruit peel bitterness that allows it to conserve it's character ! Two years of research and tests were necessary to obtain this beautiful balance.

Bon Secours Myrtille 7° -1/3L - 11.6fl.oz
Weight: 0.600 kg
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Whilst raspberries and cherries are the two most 'classic' fruits used in Belgian beers, this beer brewed from myrtilles (blueberries) is a first for me. It pours with a vivid pink/purple colour, and a massive, bright pink head. Again, wheat beer aromas are quite prominent in this brew, with a rich, sweet berry character powering through and a background sweetness of malt. On the palate it is perhaps slightly sweeter in style than the Framboise, but again the weight and power of the 7.0% ABV keeps this dry and coats the palate with dry hop and malt flavours that contrast with the bright berry fruit, and leaves the finish quite savoury and grown up 7.0% ABV, 33cl.

Bon Secours Framboise 7° - 1/3L - 11.6fl.oz
Weight: 0.600 kg
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Not a typical sweet and light fruit beer, but a heady 7% ABV brew on a base of brown ale. It pours a hazy dark tan colour with a creamy, persistent off-white head. On the nose there's a big hit of rasberry jam and confectionery, with some sweet malt and a sharp, wheaty clove and spice note. On the palate this is really quite dry and lemony, with much more of a tangy, citrussy character and only a lingering suggestion of the raspberry fruit. Long and spicy, this is certainly unusual, but is a good beer. 7.0% ABV, 33cl.

Grisette Fruits Des Bois 3.5° -1/4L- 8.4fl.oz
Weight: 0.550 kg
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Scintillating, fresh and delicately flavoured, Grisette Fruits des Bois is a light, refreshing beer that is brewed with the best malt and wheat. This blend creates a riot of sweet yet slightly bitter tastes redolent of wild berries and other exquisite fruits of the forest.

Liefmans Kriek 6.5° - 37.5 cl - 12.7fl.oz
Weight: 0.750 kg
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Liefmans Kriek is brewed in the first year, cherries are steeped in the second, and it is bottled in the third year. It is then left ripening in the bottle for some months. Liefmans kriek has a a dry sweet, fruity aroma, with an almost sharp note toward the end. Wonderfully refreshing. The aftertaste lingers with slight bitterness and definite sourness.

Liefmans Frambozen 5.4° -37.5cl
Weight: 0.750 kg
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Opening a bottle of Liefmans Frambozenbier is like opening a present! It makes the experience feel quite special. Removing the wire and the cork comes out of the bottle neck with a gentle 'pop'. The drink itself has a very slight metallic nose on pouring with a raspberry sweetness underlying it. The beer itself does not seem overly gassy at first, although it does fizz a little on the tongue. It is a beautifully clear dark red colour and very deceptively fruity. So much so, in fact, that it's like drinking a combination of very mild beer and expensive jam. That's not to say that the drink is sickly-sweet. Far from it, in fact, but it is very tasty.

Liefmans Glühkriek 6° - 3/4L - 25.3fl.oz
Weight: 1.350 kg
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An unusual novelty for a chilly evening, a beer intended to be served warm. Heat the beer gently to warm drink temperature before tasting it, do this by boiling the kettle and placing the bottle in a jug and leaving for a few minutes. This treatment yields a beer of a suitably cherry-ish colour, with a sparse bubbly head and a notably spicy aroma with cinnamon and cherry-pits evident. The palate is also notably sour cherry in flavour, with a touch of tannic skins and woody tones, sweet overall but with a little hops evident, and given an enjoyable fullness by a nicely malty background.  Try it with Fruitcake.