Best Fruit Flavored Semi Dark Beer?

[nbermas]

Is there such a beer? How much?

[peetoteeto]

Kasteel Rouge -- a Belgian brown ale made with cherries. Look for it in both small and 750ml bottles. Or, if you're lucky, on tap.

[joshekg]

Russian River Consecration & Supplication come to mind.

[AZeagle]

Great Divide Wild Raspberry is excellent, as is Lost Coast Raspberry Brown.

[deerhunter4555]

does anyone know of a place online to order these fruit flavored beers? I live in California and they really don't have much as far as fruit flavored beers

[JessKidden]

There's a nice list of a lot of the well-known beer shippers here http://onlinebeerstores.homestead.com... but you'll have to search the individual stores for brands and other particulars. Note that the expense of shipping beer will often double the total cost.

[ted]

I like Dogfish's Black & Blue.

[Josh]

If you're not limited to dark beers, you should check out Unibroue's Ephemere. If you can find it, Cantillon's Saint Lamvinus is an incredible beer made with wine grapes.

[Kenji]

Dogfish Head's Raison D'Etre is a marvelous beer.

[DougOLis]

What do you mean by semi dark beer? What style are you looking for?

[Bat Guano]

Ommegang's Three Philosophers comes to mind; rather subtle cherry flavor, very delicious.

[nbermas]

Any others don't have to be dark but I love a fruit based beer, thanks!

[mkel34]

New Glarus Rasberry Tart and Wisconsin Belgian Red are by far the best fruit beers I've ever tried. Dogfish Aprihop was a pretty good fruity beer but their asberry beer (Fort) was not very impressive.

[shellshock24]

I received a bottle of the WI Belgian Red via trade on BA, man was that an AWESOME beer.

[RosemaryHoney]

So you both liked the Belgian Red? My husband and I sought it out (not sold in our area), and we were really disappointed! We both thought it tasted a lot like Juicy Juice...and we'd heard so many rave reviews, so we were disappointed. I thought it was exceptionally sweet...maybe I was expecting something different? Or maybe we got a bad bottle?? Any thoughts? Because normally I'm a fruit beer fan, and I REALLY wanted to like this one.

[nbermas]

RosemaryHoney: So what do you like for the flavored beers? Thanks

[Josh]

Yeah, Belgian Red is disgustingly sweet. Probably the single biggest beer disappointment of my life so far. I generally like New Glarus stuff, but I couldn't even manage a 4 oz. pour of that one.