Fruit beer is

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made with fruit added as an adjunct or flavouring. It can be made for example with strawberries, plums, raspberries, or cherries. It's an additive- or flavoring-containing form. Initially manufactured in Belgium, fruit beer is now available worldwide.

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beers, originating in the

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valley in

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, may be refermented with cherries to make kriek, or fermented with raspberries to make framboise. Flemish old brown beers go through a multiple stage fermentation process. After the first fermentation of the

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, sugar is added and the beer is refermented in wooden casks. Fruit beer can be made from them by using fruit instead of sugar. Fruit beer generally has an alcohol percentage of around 4-8%, best served cold.

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juice is mentioned as an ingredient in some old

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recipes. The juice probably served as colouring agent. In

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, elderberry beer (also called ebulum) was made by boiling elderberries in the first and strongest wort. ''The London and Country Brewer'' (1737) states that it has been often "preferr'd to Port-Wine, for its pleasant Taste and healthful Quality". The author of the aforesaid book also gives a recipe for

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ale. The English writer

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states in his ''Sylva'' (1670) that ale and beer brewed with the ripe berries of quickbeam (mountain-ash) is an incomparable drink.

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gives a recipe for orange ale in her 1775 edition of ''English Housewifery''. The beverage was made by infusing sliced Seville oranges with

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in ale for about a month.

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Recipe for Blackberry Ale and Elderberry Beer in ''The London and Country Brewer'' (1737)
Types of beer Beer in Belgium Beer in England

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