both/and I will always try a fruited beer but that doesn't automatically mean it will be better than the base beer. But you never know until you try.
Do you mean fruit as part of the brewing process or adding a lime/lemon/orange/etc. to an existing one? Beers brewed with fruit can be wonderful or horrible, but I'm usually willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. A lime can make a bland or poorly made beer have a little life, but I wouldn't do that to something decent. In Germany there are beer mixers involving a 50/50 blend of pressed apple juice and weissbier that can be really good, though.
Oh, gosh, I had no idea that is what you meant. I almost reported my first post just so it would get deleted. Like Domingo, there are certain instances where this is okay, most notably the German proclivity for mixing beer with fruit juice 50/50, the radler is at the top of my list. They also enjoy the bananaweizen which you might try if you can find some banana juice.
I was going to show some barrell aging with fruit love but.... So I had a blue moon the other day without orange, and I gotta say that orange hides a lot of bad flavors. In the case of bad beer I say everybody in the pool.
Yeah, for a bad beer it's sometimes borderline essential. Corona Light without a lime is one of the worst things you could possibly drink. With one, the stinkiness is hidden and it's just like sour foamy water that gives you a buzz. It can liven up bad wheat beers in much the same way. My wife had a pretty awful one (at a place I won't name) a few weeks ago and an orange slice could have salvaged it to simply be "meh." As it was, we just left it full.
Nope - not the Rockyard. I haven't been there lately, but it used to be decent enough. I know their bourbon barrel stout used to rock. This place is kind of headed down that way, though...dude...
That sucks. Hopefully they didn't change the recipe. I don't make to to Castle Rock all that much anymore, but that beer used to be motivation enough. It's no Liquid Brain, but it was good enough to get me to visit friends down there.
My guess is D&D's, specifically a beer with our area code in the name. And when I lived in Castle Rock 4 years ago I used to go to the Rockyard all the time. I didn't think their beer was jaw-dropping but it was solid and I enjoyed it. It was a fun place to go catch a game.
Not always, but most brewers cringe when waitstaff put fruit in their beers. Honestly the only reason to put fruit in a perfectly good glass of beer is either to mask a flaw or get someone who does not normally drink beer to try it.
One time I added White Peach puree to a SA Boston Lager, and it was fantastic. I called it a "Boston Bellini".
I've been wanting to use white nectarine flesh in a brew, glad to hear your experiment with white peach worked out...might have to get on that soon
