fruit beer

American  

noun

1. a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.

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Example Sentences

Elsewhere, fruit, beer and coffee are considered frivolous items.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2022

The Kumquat Saison, a collaboration with L.A. nonprofit Food Forward, is made with foraged kumquats, and it earned a silver medal in the Belgian-style fruit beer category.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2015

Despite the knowledge we mortals have achieved in the post-lapsarian era, the full history of fruit beer remains obscure.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2014

Last Friday night, amid a tour of the world of fruit beer, I larked into a gas station convenience store.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2014

To New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, they sent some rice, hides, deer-skins, tar and pitch, which they exchanged for flour, salt fish, fruit, beer, and cyder.

From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Hewatt, Alexander