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People start homebrewing for lots of different reasons, but let’s face it —brewing your own beer is just a really cool hobby. Sure, visiting breweries and trying all the niche craft beers on the market is fun, but there is no greater thrill than producing your own, uniquely flavored brew.  

From shandies to Belgians, citrus beer is crisp, refreshing, and oh-so-crushable. Dropping a fresh citrus slice or two is a classic move for brightening up a bubbly beverage, but these days, more and more breweries, microbreweries, nanobreweries, and homebrewers are adding citrus purees directly into their craft beer recipes with outstanding results. Here’s a quick look at five of the best citrus fruits for brewing.

Using strawberry puree for cakes, pastries, ice cream, popsicles, and other desserts is a great way to save time in the kitchen while improving the flavor of your culinary creations. Whether your industrial baking business is looking for more cost-effective ingredients or you’re simply interested in elevating your favorite recipes at home, these ten uses for strawberry puree are sure to please!

Stone fruits have long been used in micro brewing to add a fruity note to a variety of craft beers. These light, summer-friendly, and complex fruits can add a mild natural sweetness and acidic tang to your next batch. There’s plenty of room for experimentation to find the perfect blend and discover your new favorite flavor combination.

Hard seltzers have exploded onto the market in recent years, in part because of their lightly refreshing style, crisp flavor combinations, and because they provide a low-calorie alternative to many other alcoholic beverages. Whether on their own, straight out of the refrigerator on a blisteringly hot summer day, or combined into cocktails and mixers, hard seltzer is a versatile drink that is set to continue to boom in the coming years. 

  There’s nothing better on a hot summer day than crushing a bright, refreshing tropical beer. Not only can you chill out while drinking a cold on...

Welcome to Inside Fierce Fruit, where we give you an inside look into the fruits that we later turn into our wonderful fruit purees! 🍉🍓🍅🥭🍍 In this...

  Formerly seen as a cover for off-flavors in failed beers, brewing with fruit is now coming into its own. But considering how valuable every line...

  Mead is a natural drink to brew with fruit, and we here at Fierce Fruit are big fans! In fact, these fruit meads have their own name — melomels!...

There are two camps when it comes to putting fruit into a sour. Some say that you either want soft, sweet, earthy flavors to counterbalance the ac...

Aseptic food processing and packaging is the best way to ensure safety and longevity when shipping liquids (or pharmaceuticals) anywhere. Here at ...

One of the best ways to try a new fruit is by eating it directly, but since it's so difficult to get your hands on fresh lulos in the U.S., we'll settle for the next best thing by making it into a popsicle mocktail! If you've tried a Lulada before, you'll love this recipe.