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Originally Posted by HonestChieffan
Beer, good beer, is not sweet. My error in what I said. Beer with fruit flavors is against all that is right and good.
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Malted barley -- the principle flavor of beer -- is sweet. Beer is fermented grain sugars. SUGARS, HCF. That's sweetness. Jesus ****ing God, this post couldn't be more wrong if it tried.
Plus, fruit flavors are commonplace in beer. Rare is the beer that doesn't have some fruitiness to it. Shit, even Budweiser tastes like green apples in large part. You don't want one-note artificial fruit sweetness, such as the cloying orange flavor in Blue Moon or Shock Top. But naturally-occurring fruit flavors from the malt sugars, or the hop lupulin, or actual fruit such as in lambic beer, is part of why beer is such a great beverage.
**** me.