Belhaven Fruit Beer (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Nice aroma of raspberries, strawberries. Pours a pale yellow, nice white head. Fruty rasperry flavour. I’m generally not a big fan of fruit beers, but this was mildly refreshing and not too bad to sip out on the patio.

Reddish golden colouration, fair head. Aroma is smokey, toasty malt, with a stong fruity background, mostly strawberry and a bit of blackcurrent. A little caramel is at first apparent, a fair amount of dark berries, currant and raspberrys, vanilla, earthy, woody flavour, the beer is quite dry, with toasty smokey malt, and a little earthy hop character.

Sampled from 500ml brown bottle. This beer had a very light sugary aroma of red fruit (strawbery and raspberry). It was copper coloured with a white head. It had a brief sweet start (again red fruit) and then gets into some light malt flavour and ends kind of bitter. I let it warm up a bit and a bit more malt and fruit flavouring came through. The label shows a variety of field berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries) but I really don’t detect very much fruit at all. In fact the ingredients list "fruit flavouring". Overall, a touch to much bitterness and not enough fruit character.

bottle. foamy white head leaves sheets of lace. copper colour. sweet fruit syrup aroma. flavour is rather bland and not very fruity. not entirely bitter. easily quaffable.

Bottled. Big on berries, short on sophistication. But it’s fun; smells like ripe berries, tastes more like artificial fruit with a malty backwash but I found it strangely enjoyable.

Vanilla, berry and pipe tobacco aroma. Light peaty gold, bad label, good 500 ml bottle. Furit totally overpowers the beer, and I end up with a pricey alcopop. Body is thin with only a mild aftertaste of fruit and hops. Bittering builds over time. Disappointing and unremarkable.

Bottle from Asda, Perry Barr, Birmingham. Ruddy gold, with a good white head. Nice aroma - sweet, light and cheekily fruity. Thin mouthfeel. Blackcurrant flavour for sure - not too dramatic, but it’s alright. A clear lagery background with Ribena sprinkled overhead.

Light brown, lightly carbonated with a thin, weak head. Mixed berry aroma - strawberries, boysenberries, and a hint of candy sweetness. Thin. slightly fruity, mild ale taste. Lacking the complexity of fruit flavours hinted in the aroma, but at least not cloyed with syrupy sweetness.