Fruit beers

 Am I wrong for liking fruity beers in the summer?

Yes. Save them for the autumn. Drink rice beer in the summer.

If you like them then go for it. Any peach flavoured drink reminds me of the taste of vomit but Guava sounds nice. I’m a fan of Jim Beam Red Stag, a cherry flavoured bourbon. Need to be careful as it is lethal when you forget how strong it is.

Fruit flavoured stuff is fine in small quantities, but for a session (which today/tonight will be with the football), it just gets too sickly.

Any other fruit beers you can recommend?

I've been loving Tropical IPA recently, in particular the Tiny Rebel Tropicalia although I don't see it on shelves any more.

Fierce do a rhubarb and a peach pale ale, both very enjoyable. Anything raspberry (Framboise) goes down very well also.

Have also been enjoying some heavily fruited sour beers but they're still new territory for me so can't confidently recommend any yet. Anything by Overtone seems a safe bet.

Que for the I hate brewdog ****s to spoil the post

I'm OK if it's natural citrus or other fruity flavours from the hops, but if it's deliberately added fruit flavourings its a big no from me.

Cherry Chouffe is lovely and on offer in Tesco. At 8% not really a session beer though.

Brew toon do some really nice fruit beer. But my internet connection is that slow I can't open the site to add links :/

I like Fruili - it's usually in Tesco in the hipster Belgian beer aisle - will be a bit sweet for some - but its a lovely warm summer evening drink in small quantities.  Occasionally there's a Delerium Cherry beer in there too and thats OK as well.

For those in Leeds who like fruit beers, Kirkstall Kriek is rather tasty.

Jubel if you want something weaker.

Tiny Rebel Clwb Tropical

Schöfferhofer which is basically a shandy but very nice.

Never seen them in this country but union do a great selection or radlers. Again basically a shandy. Drank loads in Slovenia, hiking.

Wrong time of year but titanic plumb porter. Very rich so more a slow winter drink.

Avoid that lime one that's doing the rounds in the supermarkets (I forget the brand). I managed one sip and had to pour the rest down the sink. There's also a Tiny Rebel Pineapple smoothie which pours really weird (endless froth!) and wad revolting to drink ?

I quite like a grapefruit ipa. Some fruit beers can be really hit and miss, I've found. Sound nice, but taste like shite.

I like a cherry beer, frulli as said.

Timmermans and baccus also.

I really like the Cherry Chouffe as well, dient realise it was available in the UK, might need a trip to Tesco tomorrow...

Each to his own. I don't like fruit beers or sours, quite like hazy especially wheat beer. My local indie bar has put on a few old style amber ales by popular request and they make a nice change given they are unfashionable.

Yes, very wrong.

I worked in a theatre bar where they served raspberry beer on tap.

The aftermath of a lock in on that stuff was everything you'd imagine it to be.

Most modern craft beers which have such tropical flavours are normally only in the form of hop aroma rather than actual fruit being involved in the brewing. I suspect that's what the OP has bought. Which is quite different to actual fruit beers like fruili etc.

You're not wrong, and the evidence for that is this...

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Cherry Chouffe is lovely and on offer in Tesco. At 8% not really a session beer though

Depends on where you live of course 🙂

(...and how short your sessions are)

Most modern craft beers which have such tropical flavours are normally only in the form of hop aroma rather than actual fruit being involved in the brewing.

You sure? Clwb Tropica, Brewgooder's Tropical Pale, Fierce Beer Peach Pale and Fierce Beer Rhubarb ALL have fruit listed in the ingredients or involved during brewing. I think the flavours are too bold and too distinct just to be hop aromas.

There are plenty which do include fruit ingredients (and it's normally quite obvious when they do, as you say) but they're in the minority. And quite common with higher strength stouts/porters etc as above which don't rely on hop aroma and need a more robust flavour to match the strength!

To answer OP's question, yay!

Lefe do a really good red berry beer that I was brought as my dad bought it by mistake. I have more arrib=ving in early August as it's very refreshing, bit strong mind.

If you like tropical flavours look for IPAs that use thiolised yeasts. They accentuate the tropical notes of certain hop varietals.

For actual fruit beers I like sours in moderation. My local brewery sells huge amounts of strawberry and rhubarb sour. Refreshing but not cloying.

Cherry Chouffe is, as above, lovely.

La Duchesse Chocolate Cherry; Mongozo - banana, coconut, mango; Liefman's kriek; Kriek boon; Vocation kirsch of death (before that, Imperial kirsch - possibly some re-branding going on there); Blue Monkey raspberry weisbier.

Samuel Smith's- yes, the Yorkshire brewery - do some very drinkable fruit beers but they're not readily available.

For low alcohol fruities - Flotzinger Radler, Schoffferhoher ( umlaut missing) grapefruit or pineapple.

Delirium Red ?

I can recommend a visit to the Twice Brewed tap room, sample a few 🙂 https://twicebrewed.co.uk/pages/about-us

Sleep it off and ride Northumberland

Most of those referred to and commercially available here are beers with syrup or flavour added. In a different league are the traditional Belgian kriek beers brewed using cherries and produced in Pajottenland west of Brussels. They are naturally fermented Lambics and the best are from traditional producers like 3 Fonteinen, Girardin, Boon, Hannsens and Cantillon. Refreshingly and much deeper in character but some can be mouthpuckeringly tart. Once you have a taste for those, try some Gueuzes from the same producers. These can be quite expensive! The best Gueuze I find like Champagne meets scrumpy cider with a farmyard'funk' edge. Best bought in Belgium with some guidance from a good drinks merchant. If near Bruges, Drankencentrale Rotsaert in Zedelgem is great. Massive choice, sensible prices and great advice from Filip.

I've made my own kettle sour in the past with Davidson Plums from the garden. They are one of the tartest fruits you can get and turn the beer completely pink.

I can't get on with sour beers .I love dank ipas  6.5 to 8% verdant and azvex are smashing it

Aldi have Fierce Peach Plaza in at the moment (in Crieff at least). Just enjoying one right now, very refreshing.

Was always a fan of Blue Moon with a slice of orange in it, if that counts.

I do like New England IPAs and hazy / wheat beers but the deliberately fruity ones tend to be more miss than hit for me. Will look out for a few mentioned here though. Hazy Jane is ok by me but I passed on the fruit edition box when I saw it.
Had a couple of Bloody Nora orange wheat beers not long ago, they were good.

Vault City for fruit sours*

*some aren’t that sour.

Vault City for fruit sours*

Came here to say exactly this. Don't think I've tried a bad one.

Supermarkets sell a few, which are decent. But the best ones I've had came from them directly.

"Blueberry banana choc chip double shake" and "Chocolate Dipped Strawberries" are right up there with the best beers I've had in the last year - and I'm not even a big sour person.

I went to Tesco today to get some Cherry Chouffe and saw Frulli strawberry beer, I bought the Frulli and enjoyed it so i will now need to visit Tesco more often.

Bacchus Framboise Raspberry Beer is amazing. Sainsburys usually stock it.

I worked in a theatre bar where they served raspberry beer on tap.

The aftermath of a lock in on that stuff was everything you’d imagine it to be.

Really? My imagination starts about  55seconds into this trailer - https://www.imdb.com/video/vi774421273/?ref_=tt_vi_i_21

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Titanic Plum Porter. Way too heavy to drink on a session though lol

Big fan of Blue Moon Mango although it seems to have disappeared  from the shelves now 🙁