Beer Style: Fruit Beer
Brewing with Fruit
How to pick the right fruit for your summer brew.
Huckleberry Ale
An American-style pale ale, with a healthy heaping of huckleberries.
Cyserale
Partial mash with honey and fruit juice.
Ty Cobb’s Georgia Peach Pilsner
Finding fresh, ripe peach to even slightly over-ripe peaches are key here. If you notice that there still is not enough peach character, you can add a little peach extract in the fermenter. Be sparing as you don’t want that character to overwhelm the base beer.
Fruit Beer: Tips from the Pros
Brewer: Peter Bouckaert Brewery: New Belgium Brewing Co., Ft. Collins, Colo. Years of experience: Nine Education: Degree in biochemistry in brewery and fermentation technology from CTL in Ghent, Belgium House Beers: Fat Tire (amber
Tropical Punch Red Ale
You maybe drinking the Kool-Aid after this one (don’t worry, there is no artificial drink mix required in this recipe, only fresh tropical fruit). Tropical fruit paired with tropical hops make for a complex beer with lots of fruit aroma and flavor going on.
Blueberry Porter
This brew is a seasonal one for me based on blueberry harvest. Those of you not within fresh blueberry territory will have to make do with frozen blueberries from your grocery store. Four pounds of our local berries (the size of chick peas, roughly) give a noticeable blueberry flavor and aroma, even in a porter.
Cranberry Cream Ale
For a tart twist on a cream ale, the addition of cranberries will provide an astringency and acidity and can play nicely in this style.
Apple Pseudo-Lambic
You don’t need to be an all-grain to create funky, sour lambic-styled beers. Here is a clean and simple recipe for a new take on producing a lambic-styled beer of your own.
Fruit Beer
I have an old photograph at home, taken at the Weinhard Brewery here in Portland, Oregon in 1906. The brewmaster is posed in front of the brew kettle in high collar, tie,
Cherry Witbier
Add a nice twist to a classic witbier recipe by adding a fruit like cherries instead of orange peel. This recipe is a great starting place to build your own unique witbier recipe.
