Belhaven Fruit Beer (Bottle)

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

Bottle from Sainsbury’s Kidlington. Orangey colour with a tinge of sourness on the nose, tasted of not much really fruit concentrate and water shan’t be having this again.

Pours orange colour, moderate head, dies quickly. Peaches, forest fruits. No smell of beer. The taste is beyond description, of all that smell in the beer, there’s nothing than berries and mineral water there, maybe a little beer taste. Slightest tinge of dryness at the end. Terrible. Boring. Avoid.

50cl bottle from Sainsbury. Not surprisingly, I prefer the cask version. This is just so unrelated and non-integrated I can’t believe it. Fruits of the forest with some wondering minstrel of a beer passing it by. I wouldn’t mind having this as a mouth wash at the dentist. Some vanilla, some hop on end. But fruit flavours go wandering about by themselves with no malt base to attach themselves too. Fruit/vanilla concoction is nice, but overall, I really would prefer to gargle with it than have to drink it.

Greyish-golden with a small head. Aroma of raspberry ripple ice cream. They poured some fruit syrup into a poor quality beer and put a pretty label on it. Those who like fruit beers would find it excessively beery, and vice versa.

Bottled version. Was looking forward to this, but was dissapointed. Come on Belhaven! You’re better than this!

There is all this blurb on the bottle that talks about lambics and fruit beers from Belgium etc etc. So after having sit on the shlf for a few months and then in the fridge for a while this finally made it into a glass. The appearance is of a typical UK style ale with a dark body and reasonable head. The nose is a bit musty though with only a faint hint of fruit. The flavour is nondescript with mre of a sour finish than anything else. Of course a beer with berries should have this but there is a real imbalanced afterthought in this beer. Very ew redeemming features in this beer. A few of the lads at the brewery must have been discussing thse crazy Belgians when one of workers comes in with some berries he found in a wee stand on the side of the road. Well, Fergus, whai don’ we jus’ tip some o’ those wee fruities intae the vat and see jus wha’ we ken end op wi like. Hoots, stick to yae nittin’ laddies

Really good, considering this brewery likes to brew some strong ales, this was really soft but fruity, really nice.

Cloudy light amber with a white short head. Tinned tropical fruit syrup aroma, with berry notes too. Sweet fruits, mild berrie and a slight malty biscuit taste. Medium bodied. Interesting, but not for me.