I am fairly pleased to say I have only met one beer I did not like - Garrison Jalapena Ale. Mouth gets hot, take a drink, mouth gets hotter, take a drink, mouth gets hotter...you get the idea.
Belhaven Fruit Beer is not quite that but it isn't quite fruity either. When very fresh raspberries and blackberries have a kind of shrubby taste as well as all that sugar. That is the kind of fruit Belhaven has added to an otherwise moderate 60/ style Scottish ale. Hop bitter, a bit of roast barley bite and then the twiggy fruity thing. Smells subtly like Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries. Disconcerting in a beer. Not as much as it would be if it if it were Cap'n Crunch with the peanut butter berries.
I would probably say I will never have another of these except I have a second in the cupboard.

Comments
portland - June 10, 2004 11:41 AM
i wanna know the day you pop the second open so i can laugh at you.
Alan - June 10, 2004 11:43 AM
I am tempted to mix it with ginger ale. I have a philosophical problem with throwing out an unopened beer.
Alan - June 20, 2004 2:16 PM
Laugh away. I had the other last night at full fridge cold rather than room temperature. It was better but still not so great. Reminded me of an effort to mimic Grozet Gooseberry Ale but a rather poor one.