As the summer winds down, I am reflecting on some of the beers I enjoyed this summer. I decided to check my Instagram and Untappd accounts. For fun, I dipped a bit further back to last summer to compare and found that I had a lot of fun again with fruity beers and New England Style IPA. I’m a slave to flavor.

Fruit or fruity beers are not for everyone. But that could be said about sours or stouts, and I let them into my life, so why not fruit beers? The fruit beers of today, are far more complex than the over-sweetened, one-level brews of your past. In today’s fruit style beers, you’ll find much to like, in varying layers of flavor that will remind you of the structure of some pretty good wines.

One such fruit beer that I’ve enjoyed for a few years, but never wrote about is the Blueberry Juele from 4204 Main Street Brewing Company.

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