Topic Archives: Vegetable/Fruit Beer
Dogfish Head Oak Aged Noble Rot (Tasting Notes)
Dogfish Head Oak Aged Noble Rot is a January surprise release by the Milton, Delaware brewery.
First released in 2012, Dogfish Head’s Noble Rot is a wine/beer hybrid. How? Unfermented grape juice, aka “must” from viognier grapes, that have been infected with a helpful fungus called botrytis. Thus, where the name “Noble Rot” comes in. The fungus reduces the water content of the grapes, making them sweeter. Next, the brewery adds pinot gris must, that has been intensified by the a process called dropping fruit (where larges bunches of grapes are clipped to amplify the grapes left behind).
The brewery uses a Belgian strain of yeast to ferment both editions of Noble Rot.
Dogfish Head Oak-Aged Noble Rot has been resting on oak for a full year. Available in 750ml bottles. Shipping immediately.
Beer Street Journal tasting notes: Much of the original flavor of Noble Rot shines through in the oaked edition. Notably, the oak is very prevalent. Honestly, this beer is dominated by notes of the grapes, and oak. Very unique. A great supplement to those that love the original wine/beer hybrid.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Grapes. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Release: Mid-January, 2016
9% ABV
Founders Mango Magnifico is returning to the Backstage Series
Founders Mango Magnifico con Calor [Magnificent Mango with Heat], will be reintroduced to the brewery’s Backstage Series in March, 2016.
This release marks the 15th entry in the series (last time it was released, it was the 7th). Founders Mango Magnifico is brewed with mango and habanero peppers.
Not a traditional fruit beer, the delicate tropical fruit in Mango Magnifico is punctuated by a hint of heat, increasing the overall depth of flavor and adding another level of complexity. A refreshing drink for the warm summer months.
Founders Mango Magnifico will be a draft, and 750 milliliter bottle offering in March, 2016.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Mango, Habanero Peppers)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Return: March, 2016
10% ABV
Read more: Founder’s Backstage Series. Image via Founders Brewing Co.
Brewer’s Alley Oh My Gourd! bottled for the first time
Brewer’s Alley Oh My Gourd! Spiced Ale has been bottled for the first time. Recently the Frederick, Maryland based brewery expanded their production space to Monocacy Brewing, which allowed space to bottle.
Brewer’s Alley Oh My Gourd! is brewed with locally grown butternut squash, vanilla beans, and spices. The brewery notes this beer has favors of warm pumpkin pie crust.
Brewed with more than 500 pounds of locally grown butternut squash and beautifully spiced, Oh My Gourd! Pumpkin Ale is a wonderful addition to this festive season.
Brewer’s Alley Oh My Gourd! is available in 12 ounce bottles and draft.
Style: Fruit/Vegetable Beer (w/ Vanilla Beans, Butternut Squash, Spices)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Return: 11/2/2015
Distribution: MD, VA, PA, Washington, D.C.
?? ABV
Burnside Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil, A Fest Exclusive
Burnside Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil, a Portland Fruit Beer Festival exclusive release.
Burnside Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil is a collaboration with Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider. The beer is a blend of fruit beer with pineapple and apricot, plus ghost chilies scotch bonnet peppers, and aji peppers.
This unholy marriage of beer and cider is the ultimate temptation of luscious, juicy and tropical fruit character with notes of Pineapple and Apricot that pulls you in before ending in a firey tropical heat of Ghost Peppers, Scotch Bonnets and Aji peppers and a thirst quenching 4.5%
Burnside Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil is available in 22oz bottles, at Burnside Brewing during the festival and special events around Portland, Oregon.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Pineapple, Apricot, Chili Peppers.)
Availability: 22oz bottles. Limited.
4.5% ABV
Two Roads Road Jam Makes Seasonal Return
Two Roads Road Jam Raspberry Wheat Ale makes a warm weather return on April 15th. The wheat ale use 100% real raspberries and lemongrass stalks.
This tart, refreshing beer is the perfect summer complement for outdoor fun.
New for 2015, Two Roads Road Jam will be available in six pack cans, the Beer Bus Variety pack, as well as bottles and draft.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries, Lemongrass.)
Availability: 12oz Cans, 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Return: 4/15/15
5% ABV
Return of Dogfish Head Black & Blue, with Refreshed Label
Dogfish Head’s Black & Blue returns to 750 mL bottles with an updated label.
Dogfish Head Black & Blue is a Belgian-style golden ale fermented with black raspberries and blueberries with an intense berry flavor and aroma.
The pureed berries are added as the beer leaves the brewhouse. In fermentation, the yeast — the same one we use in Red & White and Pangaea — feeds on sugars from the barley and the berries, giving Black & Blue a unique complexity.
Dogfish Black & Blue was first brewed in 2007.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries, Blueberries)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Seasonal release.
Return: March, 2015
10% ABV
Bridgeport Stumptown Tart 2015
Bridgeport Stumptown Tart 2015 will feature raspberries as the berry of choice. Each year, Bridgeport hand selects local berries that will highlight their Belgian-style ale, along with a new pin-up model.
The 2014 edition of Stumptown Tart used cranberries and blueberries.
Bridgeport Stumptown Tart 2015 is available seasonally, in 22oz bombers.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries.)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA
7.6% ABV
