KAM - Fruit flavored beers?

Jonathon Sunshine · Thursday Mar 22, 2007 5:42 am

Anyone tried any of those?

KAM is the brand, they do an assortment of fruit flavored beers, althou i only know of strawberry and lemon for sure. This is actually what 1st got me interested in the idea of mixing fruit juice in secondary.

regardless of that thou, the lemon is rather sickly looking yellow green color and the strawberry is not surprisingly strawberry colored which makes me think that they must have a helluva lot of coloring.

I'v only seen ads, never actually tried one (or seen in the flesh)..

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Mar 22, 2007 11:43 am

A good fruit beer is a hard thing to do. A good commercial one is even harder.

Without having tried any KAM ones, I'd suggest that they might be trying to make them similar to bacardi breezers or something. Maybe that's just my scepticism with regard to acronymic 'brewers.'

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 11:54 am

I have absolutely no idea about the product. Nor do I know what I'm talking about... But this is getting my post count up

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 12:25 pm

chris., what the hell are you doing.. stop post whoring ffs.

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 12:30 pm

Sorry guys.

For a moment there I just thought that he who died with the most posts wins.

632

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 1:19 pm

chris. wrote:Sorry guys.

For a moment there I just thought that he who died with the most posts wins.

632

Y'got 2460 to go chris..

Cheers,
Greg

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 3:16 pm

gregb wrote:
chris. wrote:Sorry guys.

For a moment there I just thought that he who died with the most posts wins.

632
Y'got 2460 to go chris..

Cheers,
Greg

Guess I'll just have to keep on trucking along.

FWIW I don't think a fruit beer is any harder to do than a regular beer.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 3:20 pm

The trick is getting a good balance of fruit to base beer. That's the hard part.

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Friday Mar 23, 2007 6:12 pm

chris. wrote:I have absolutely no idea about the product. Nor do I know what I'm talking about... But this is getting my post count up

Why?

That's pretty dumb.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Sunday Mar 25, 2007 1:30 pm

Chris wrote:The trick is getting a good balance of fruit to base beer. That's the hard part.

Is it just me or does the fruit flavour dissipate with age?

My strawberry I did, which I love, lost the "berry" flavour and aroma after a while.

Cheers

Boonie

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Sunday Mar 25, 2007 6:42 pm

Pale_Ale wrote:
chris. wrote:I have absolutely no idea about the product. Nor do I know what I'm talking about... But this is getting my post count up
Why?

That's pretty dumb.

Exactly.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Monday Mar 26, 2007 9:19 am

Yeah Boonie. Fruit beers seem to have a shortish shelf-life. About 3 months I recon before the fruit flavours really drop off.

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Monday Mar 26, 2007 10:06 am

On a related note, I tried the raspberry pale ale from Jamieson brewery at the showcase in Fed square and it was quite nice....

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Monday Mar 26, 2007 1:45 pm

chris. wrote:
Pale_Ale wrote:
chris. wrote:I have absolutely no idea about the product. Nor do I know what I'm talking about... But this is getting my post count up
Why?

That's pretty dumb.
Exactly.

Yes chris. , but I think that's a little unfair to Chris, his comment was reasonable even if he hadn't tried it. I don't think he was post whoring.