fruit beer

[dizzyblonde]

I am currently have a bottle of this

http://www.beermerchants.com/B5284

its like drinking pop...but i have a feeling that it could all end terribly if i try and open the cherry one!!
I've never had a fruit beer before, are there any more like it that I should try?

[wyrdness]

Mrs Wyrdness really likes fruit beers. The Belgians brew beer in nearly every fruit flavour, including things like Passion Fruit.

We sometimes get the Melbourne Bros Strawberry beer in the summer for picnics. It's from Lincolnshire and is naturally fermented with airborne yeasts. Lovely served ice cold on a baking hot day.

[dizzyblonde]

apparently the brewer Liefmans is bankrupt....shame I've just found this, i might not be able to get it again.
I'll have a looksi in summer for that one Mr. Wyrd :-)

[dizzyblonde]

and how has this thread got in here when i thought i'd put it in IB??

not even started drinking yet!

[wyrdness]

apparently the brewer Liefmans is bankrupt....shame I've just found this, i might not be able to get it again.
I'll have a looksi in summer for that one Mr. Wyrd :-)

Forgot to mention that the Melbourne Bros fruit beers (they do cherry too - tastes like cough mixture, ugh!) are also sold by Sam Smiths (who own a share in the Melbourne Bros brewery).

[ogden]

IIRC Liefmans don't use fruit during the fermentation process, they just add raspberry (or cherry for their kriek) concentrate to a young lambic ale to get the flavour. You might as well drink lager & lime.

Try some oude geuze without the fruit (Boon isn't bad) - it's weird stuff, like beery champagne.

[Steve_God]

I LOVE the stuff!!!

Ones you want to try are:
Fruli (Strawberry) - by far the BEST fruit beer I've found to date, found in bottles but it's best if you can find it on draft (see here to find your nearest pub: http://www.frulibeer.com/frulipubs.asp)
Florisgaarden (Honey) - they also do other flavours, but they're the only one I've found to do the honey flavour! On the bottles it just says 'Floris'.
Timmermans (Peche Lambic / Peach) - Very refreshing.
Liefmans and Lindemans can be found in quite a few places, but I'm not as big a fan of those.

[mrs mousetrapper]

After much trial and tasting at the Bruges beer festival I found that Lindemans Kriek (cherry) or raspberry were my favourties! Both of which are now being sold in asda at a very reasonable £1.47!!

[AndyBrad]

pop down to the drop in elland. they have a cherry beer on tap.

ITS 7 quid a pint!!!!!

book the following day off work...

[carnivore]

pop down to the drop in elland. they have a cherry beer on tap.

book the following day off work...

Yeah, i've heard the oldfellows was that type of pub.

[Richie]

I seam to remember many moon ago, a Pub in the Lake District. Up over Strawberry Hill, Nr Lake Windemere, which sold over a thousand differant ales. One of which was Damson Beer...
Will have to find the pub again...
maybe a stop off place for the next ride out...?

[wyrdness]

I seam to remember many moon ago, a Pub in the Lake District. Up over Strawberry Hill, Nr Lake Windemere, which sold over a thousand differant ales. One of which was Damson Beer...
Will have to find the pub again...
maybe a stop off place for the next ride out...?

Badger do a beer called Poachers Choice (http://www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk/beers/badgerales/poacherschoice.asp), which has liquorice and damson. It's delicious and much better than it might sound. You can sometimes find it in supermarkets.

I also had a damson beer at a beer festival last year. Can't remember what it was called, but that was lovely too.

[Mrs_giggles]

wyrdeness thats just trippy thaught i had been drugged or my eyes getting worse.. i actually had to put specks on now so oficially four eyes now...

[Dave20046]

I seam to remember many moon ago, a Pub in the Lake District. Up over Strawberry Hill, Nr Lake Windemere, which sold over a thousand differant ales. One of which was Damson Beer...
Will have to find the pub again...
maybe a stop off place for the next ride out...?
Anywhere near ambleside?