With fruit ciders accounting for one-third of the UK cider market’s value, the beer industry has hopped on the trend Fruit beer is enjoying a modern renaissance in the UK. Tesco’s beer buyer Ben Cole ...
Fruit beers have gotten a bad rap for years. In the early days of microbrewing, nearly every small brewery made a raspberry wheat ale. It was viewed as a "starter" beer — or worse, a beer meant to ...
Some drinkers hear the term “fruit beer” and assume the brew in question will be saccharine, one-note, and palette-fatiguing after a sip or two. And in some cases, those assumptions are accurate. But ...
It is a common complaint that fruit beers are somehow less than “real beers,” that the fact they are fruit-flavored and frequently sweet makes them some sort of “beer cooler” rather than true ales or ...
There are almost 9,000 breweries in the U.S. alone. That means that there are endless IPAs, stouts, porters, pale ales, lagers, pilsners, and any number of fruit-based beers. Today, we’re talking the ...
Fruit and beer have come a long way; in the early days of American craft brewing, you could practically count the number of available fruit beers on one hand. Not so anymore; over the past decade, ...
Once a niche offering, fruit beers are rapidly emerging as one of the on-trade’s brightest opportunities, drawing in curious drinkers seeking flavour and novelty. Mirroring the popularity of tropical ...
Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey ...
Fruit and fruit juices are among the most refreshing and delicious things to enjoy in hot weather. So it’s probably no surprise that the new wave of Hazy IPAs are so popular. They’re occasionally ...
Fruit Beer Market By Fruit Type (Cherry, Raspberry, Peach, Strawberry, and Others), By Distribution Channel (Supermarkets/Hypermarkets, Convenience Stores, Online ...
In summer of 2012, record heat and severe drought devastated Wisconsin’s famed cherry harvest, the same one that New Glarus Brewing relies on for its award-winning flagship Wisconsin Belgian Red.