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Swedesboro Brewing Company

Swedesboro Brewing Company
Shoobie Pineapple-Habanero Beer

Category: Fruit Beer

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 6%
Bronze Medal
Recommended

Swedesboro Brewing Company
Shoobie Pineapple-Habanero Beer

Category: Fruit Beer

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 6%
Copper color. Buttery aromas and flavors of pineapple cake with buttercream frosting and hot honey with a silky, racy, effervescent, fruity sweet light-to-medium body and a hot, long finish that shows touches of chili powder, canned pineapples, and vanilla kayo syrup on crackers. A fruity, hot honey like beer that will be an interesting choice with desserts.

Tasting Info

Beer Glass Style: Funky & Bold & Bitter
Aroma Aroma: pineapple cake with buttercream frosting and hot honey
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with touches of chili powder, canned pineapples, and vanilla kayo syrup on crackers
Bitterness Bitterness: None
Enjoy Enjoy: Enjoy on its own
Recipes Pairing: Chevre, Goat Cheese, Mascarpone
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A fruity, hot honey like beer that will be an interesting choice with desserts.

The Producer

Swedesboro Brewing Company

The Producer

Fruit Beer

Beer Glass Shaker Pint Amber.jpg
Serve in a Shaker Pint Glass
Fruit beers are ales or lagers to which fruit has been added in order to impart flavor or color. The degree of overall flavor and aroma will vary in these beers in relation to not only the fruit utilized, but also to when and where fruit was added during the brewing process. These beers are highly individualistic, and allow brewers great creativity in their formulations. While the more common fruits used by brewers include cherries, strawberries and blueberries, many examples of fruit beer are readily available including coconut and kiwi to name a couple. Given the variation possible in this category, there are no established standards for appearance, aroma or flavor. Instead, beers in this category are defined by pleasing combination of the beer’s elements, overall drinkability and balance of fruit and base beer flavors and aromas. Noteworthy examples of this style include: New Glarus Belgian Red Wisconsin Cherry Beer, Samuel Smiths Organic Apricot Ale, Unibroue Quelque Chose and Stevens Point Whole Hog Raspberry Saison.

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