Samuel Smiths Organic Strawberry Fruit Beer

Brewed by Melbourn Brothers (Samuel Smith)
Style: Fruit Beer
Stamford, England

Sampled at Lithy’s Septemberfest Tasting. Smells like fake strawberries. Flavor is cloying strawberry daquieri syrup. They definitely made a strawberry beer, but I really don’t care for it personally. Way too sweet, needs to be mixed with something else.

Aromas of strawberry koolaid. Flavors of strawberry jolly rancher. Very tasty and enjoyable.

Pours a strawberry blond - yes, I thought that would be ironic. Anyway, the smell is sweet strawberry, with some hops and malt. The flavor is very clean, a little sweet. The hops and malt definitely take a backseat to the strawberry flavor. It’s enjoyable even if a little overly sweet.

550 ml bottle from Keller’s IGA. Pours clear, deep red gold with a frothy white head with a pink tint. Powerful aroma of strawberry, and reminiscent of every sweet form of strawberry, like strawberry snow cone, candy, bubble gum, soda, jelly, and so on. But I still kind of liked it anyway. The flavor isn’t as potent as the smell indicates, and has a more natural taste - does the ’organic’ label more justice than the aroma does. Also a little hops and malt. Light-medium body. Sweet, bitter, and sour. I enjoyed this more than I expected, especially after the first nose.

Pours red tinged gold with a white head, aroma is strawberry ice lollies, vanilla. Taste is suprisingly good, distinct and tons of stawberry (not too articifial tasting like many fruit beers). Flavours of cream, vanilla, strawberry sweets dominate, but then some malt and hops towards the end. Creamy texture. Really enjoyable for the single bottle, not something to drink several of.

a different appearance than the cherry and raspberry with a gold/amber hue and a white head. aroma is was fruity with some strawberry notes but it’s got nothing on that raspberry. flavor is good sweet strawberry and some pale malt. quite sweet and jelly like. light to medium bodied. excellent, well done, beer although i’m not sure anything can top that raspberry!!

550ml brown bottle obtained at McKinnon’s in Salem, NH - split with user CheckMate. Dark amber bordering on copper translucent body with a good inch of relatively short-lived off-white head. Smells like a fresh sugared strawberry, like strawberry shortcake, sweet but not syrupy. Tastes sweet and somewhat bitter like a slightly under-ripe strawberry with sugar on it. The sweetness and bitterness are a little overwhelming at first, bordering on cloying. Medium to near-full mouth feel, with lower carbonation than expected. A lighter body and more carbonation would aid the drinkability considerably. A little sweeter and thicker than expected. A solid fruit beer nonetheless though, smells great and tastes good.

Bottle, shared with my brother-in-law Larry in Estes Park, CO. Pours a thin amber with a hollow, puffy head of off-white. Aroma is strawberry jam, leafy malt, and strawberry bubble gum. Flavor is strawberry jam, sweet, fruity hops with a slight sour cherry finish. Tingly, Sprite-like mouthfeel. A tad shy of a lambic but not bad.