Beer Alert: New Fruit Ales and Lagers

(Courtesy Dogfish Head Brewing)

Spring has sprung and American craft brewers are addressing things with exciting new beers you’re gonna want to have around.

Get Crushed (Milton, DE) – Spring has officially sprung, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is celebrating the season with a new addition to this year’s Off-Centered Art Series, an annual collection of four beers featuring artwork by a collaborating artist.

Crafted with boatloads of mandarin oranges and mangos to mimic the Mid-Atlantic region’s iconic “Crush Cocktail,” Dogfish Head Mandarin & Mango Crush is 6% ABV refresher with a citrusy tartness and a crisp, dry finish and artwork by Natalya Balnova, a New York-based illustrator, designer and printmaker.

(Courtesy Cascade Brewing)

Blue-Buried (Portland, OR) – Oregon is home to some of the best blueberries grown anywhere in the world and Cascade Brewing has a new release that was aged for more than two years on fresh blueberries proudly grown in Oregon’s bountiful Willamette Valley. Cascade Blueberry is an 8.3% ABV blend of sour triple and blond ales aged in Pinot Noir barrels with specially curated Oregon blueberries.

Defy This! (Alpine, WY) – The women of Melvin Brewing have crafted a new canned limited release in celebration of International Women’s Day. Brewed for and by women in beer, Miss Defy (great name!) is a unique 5% ABV Kölsch-Style brew – a hybrid between an ale and a lager. Ale yeast was used but fermented at a low temperature, then allowed to sit in a lagering phase for the same amount of time as Melvin’s traditional lagers, resulting in a beer with lightly fruity yeast notes and a slight hop bitterness, but also dry and crisp like a lager.

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