Belhaven Fruit Beer (Bottle)

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

Serve in English pint

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Originally rated 03062012. Bottle 0.5l from local market. Colour is reddish brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Sweetness, berries and some malts. Horrible.

Zdecydowanie lepsze piwo od 80 szylingowego. Bitter z dodatkiem różnych owoców leśnych: malina, jężyna, jagoda itp. Piwo dokładnie zbalansowane między słodycza owoców, a gożkością bittera. Niewielki skarmelizowany osad, a w zasadzie fusy czy resztki po owocach. Ciekawa i trwała piana, zapach intensywnie owocowy. Finisz już bardziej gozki.

50 cl, bottled. Pours clear orange with a white head. Aroma: Malt, fruity tones. Citrus, raspberry, red currants. Taste: Sweet, slightly bitter. Berries. Palate: Medium-low palate, a bit odd. M’eh, decent.

The beer in the glass is reddish-brown with a little foam. It smells malty, bitter, slightly fruity and subtle hoppy. Starts with bitter malt nuances, coupled with strong fruity berry notes and some hops in the background. The middle part is dominated by red berries and bitter hops. Goes into a berry-hoppy finish with delicate malt notes!

.5l bottle Pours clear copper with mediun head. Aroma is caramel, fruits, red berries, sweet malts. Flavor is malts, berries and some hops.

Clear pinky amber with thin head. Aroma of malty fruit. Taste of initially of fruit flavours then a light bitterness to finish. An interesting ale, worth a go I reckon.

Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Amber color. Red fruit and strawberry juice in the aroma. Caramel, strawberry and butter in the flavor. Soft bitter finish, but overall sweet.

0,5l bottle from Brittish Store, Budapest. Shared and co-rated with "kovika91". Clear, light amber color with medium, off-white head. Interesting dry, roasty aroma with spicy hops. The interesting forest fuity, berry flavour. Much grainy then regular fruit beers. Malt and caramel also appears, like in brown ales. Dry, light bitter-sweet taste. Light body, slick texture, average carbonation. Dry, caramel and roasty finish with some fruity flavour. Not a bad one, but it’s not a classic fruit beer. It’s like a fruiy brown ale. Light, delicious beer.

0,5l bottle from Brittish Store, Budapest. Clear, light amber color with medium, off-white head. Interesting dry, roasty aroma with spicy hops. The interesting forest fuity, berry flavour. Much grainy then regular fruit beers. Malt and caramel also appears, like in brown ales. Dry, light bitter-sweet taste. Light body, slick texture, average carbonation. Dry, caramel and roasty finish with some fruity flavour. Not a bad one, but it’s not a classic fruit beer. It’s like a fruiy brown ale. Light, delicious beer.

Oct 2006: Found this bottle the morning after a Bavarian evening I hosted, someone obviously got lost in the beer shop, or couldn’t be arsed to find any German beer (as the invite insisted on). Looked OK in a Belgian ’Verboden Vrucht’ glass, as I thought that would be fair to the beer. Amber colour with a good soild head, almost white. Sadly, it left the scene fairly swiftly, to leave a swisp of remains stuck to the side of the glass, joined by a few remaining strings of white. Blackberry, Blackcurrent and Raspberries hit me straight away, but like the head, didn’t seem to stay to long, which was a shame, because I was begining to think this might be a great beer. The taste also changed mid-beer, all fruits at first, with lemon taking over towards the end of the pint. No great mouthfeel, taking on the Belgians with an ABV of only 4.6% for a fruit beer was very brave, unfortunately they were not brave enough in my opinion and have failed big time. Nothing wrong with this beer, it just didn’t ’do it’ for me.