Funny you mentioned that...my brother got sick from the same exact thing right before a Red Sox game. That made for an interesting night. :-)

I've never tried syrup with beer. I'm guessing I wouldn't like it because I don't really like sweet beers.
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A lot of beers that have fruit flavor are overly sweet. I prefer the ones that are sour like lambics and krieks.
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Haven't heard of beer + syrup. The closest experience I've had is probably a shandy (lager + lemonade,) popular in Europe. An interesting combination, not one I'd drink very often. Another version is the "turbo shandy," which is beer + citrus-flavored alcohol drinks like Mike's Hard Lemonade or Smirnoff Ice.

Can't bring myself to do either of those. :-)
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This or...
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:-)
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Ever try Magic Hat #9? It's not marketed as a 'flavored beer', but there's definitely a 'slightly more than subtle' hint of apricot in there. I love that stuff.

I'm a sucker for all things raspberry, that's one of my favorites. A local microbrewery makes a chocolate raspberry stout around Valentine's Day, it's definitely a winner. Consequently my first homebrew was a chocolate raspberry stout, also a winner.
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You dumbass, Moses said fruit syrup.


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Linenkugel's summer seasonal beer is a shandy. I had some last summer :-)
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Doesn't Warsteiner make fruit-flavored beers? It's Germany's Keystone, so I thought that was just another take on teenage European party swill - I had no idea this was a popular concept across the pond.

Seeing fruit-flavored import beer produced almost as much culture shock as when I walked into London pubs to see the bartenders handing $5 bottle after $5 bottle of Budweiser up and over the dozens of neglected taps ready to serve $5 pints of local ales.
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The Budweiser tastes much different than it does here, and is not bad actually in UK compared to here.
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Thought this thread was going to be about maple syrup in beer. I made some homebrew a few years back substituting maple sap for water, wasn't great, but probably could be improved upon.

I really don't like the syrupy fruit beers, spanish peaks raspberry comes to mind. A hint of fruit is fine with me if it changes the color of the beer it is too much.
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Adding syrup and serving time comes out much different than brewed with syrup and beer is very light with a light fruit syrup makes for an easy drinking beer almost into the "beverage" more than booze.
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