Looking For Great Fruit Beers

I would try any thing once. I was never a GOSE fan, a tad salty to me. but a local place did 1 I could drink, its a tad weak abv to me, I think it was like 3.7 ABV, too me that was out of the style range. I really need to visit up there 1 day.

 

yea I keep wishing for a lotto hit, I would buy a big RV and live at the micro unitl I got sick of their beer and go camp elsewhere.
I there is 1 brewer out there besides RR I could live at for a year or two....lol

I always did dream too much....

 

oh I do every few weeks, it goes over the minimum, lol....waste of money but IF you do not play you cannot win, sounds like a sick gambler right??

 

Find a mule?

 

This.

 

Try them all. But I would defend Boon -- certainly no cheaper, and certainly less mass-market than Lindemans (sic). (Although I would defend Lindemans against some charges, too. While still admitting they taste like Jolly Ranchers candies.) Boon is a hard-core revivalist lambic maker, whose Oude Kriek and Kriek Mariage Parfait are as creaky (ha) as they come. And I wouldn't look down my nose at the base Kriek, either. The Framboise is also good and traditional, maybe slightly less fruit-forward. ... Since someone mentioned Cantillon, I'd mention that the Lou Pepe kriek is fruitier than the standard, and rarer/pricier, but it's a matter of taste. I'd venture that their cherries are more cherry than their other fruits (for example Fou' Foune is maybe less apricot-y than the krieks are cherry). Well, lots of fruit out there, no reason to go crazy chasing Belgians.

 

only meant cheaper to Buy in the USA. But I like Belgians...

 

Boon Geuze is one of my favorite readily available lambics. Also their kriek is close to being world class. I would drink Boon over Lindeman's any day of the week. Boon is the real deal as where Lindeman's uses synthetic fruit syrups to flavor their beer.

 

Look now further than Lolita. One of the greatest beers on Planet Earth

 

No one is on the same planet as New Glarus from what I've experienced. They're all good, but for me Belgian Red and Apple Ale are just amazing.

 

If anyone likes Lolita you should seek out Riserva by Weyerbacher. It's like Lolita but with a bit more funk and carbonation. Someone else mentioned Sam Smith's Strawberry- it tastes like strawberry shortcake to me.

 

I guess I should really try some of the NG fruit beers since I live in the only state that sells it. Hopefully I just don't realize how lucky I am.

 

Oh you are. And they are defenetly beers that people love to trade for. Stock up on your berliner Weiss

 

Does Backyard Rye count as a fruit beer?

If so...that one.

 

If you do some looking around you may find Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien collecting dust on shelves. I recently came across 750s selling for 20 bucks. Left zero bottles behind ;-)

 

Let me put forward Upland's lambics as alternatives to the more traditional Lindeman's.

Big, big sucker for Samuel Smiths Apricot, which is sweet and fruity and delicious.

I'll chime in on Lolita - a very good sour beer with a fruit-wine element that is rarely pulled off so well.