Beer Style: Fruit Beer
JM’s Peach Ginger Lager
A basic Lager, with honey, peaches, and fresh ginger.
Homebrewing with Fruit: Tips from the Pros
Summer is a great time to brew a fruit beer and our two professional brewers will help make sure your next one isn’t the pits.
Fruit Brewing Techniques
How to make a berry good 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.
