LCBO Food & Drink Spring 2025

JUICED UP

Tart and Tangy Fruit Beers Breweries making mixed-fermentation beers actively increase the acidity of their base beer in order to create a suitable base for fruit flavours. While there’s a range of sourness in these beers, just as there is in fruit, the key to this genre is to be bright, tart and punchy. Each one is like fireworks for your senses.

BERRY GOOD BEERS

Bobcaygeon Brewing Amplitude Blackberry Lime (LCBO 43115, 473 mL, $4.50) combines juicy berry and citrus to cre ate a light acidity that demonstrates the best of both fruits in the mix.

Parry Sound’s Trestle Brewing opts for a singular flavour with their No Service Raspberry Kettle Sour (LCBO 43119, 473 mL, $4.25): tartly berryish with a pleasing pinkish hue that will make you think you’ve bitten into ripe fruit.

Merit Brewing Waves Fruited Sour (LCBO 43112, 473 mL, $4.75) features cherry and lime flavours, making it reminiscent of soda-fountain rickeys from a bygone age. The addition of vanilla helps smooth out each sip.

Left Field Squeeze Play Pink Lemonade Sour (LCBO 43799, 473 mL, $4.85) replicates the classic summer beverage with a satisfying blend of raspberry and lemon. You won’t find this grown-up drink for sale at a sidewalk booth!

Wellington Easy Ten Concord Grape Sour (LCBO 44100, 473 mL, $4.15) is a throwback to Ontario’s grape juice–making heritage, featuring the light tannins and sweetness of Concord grapes to balance the beer’s sourness.

Blood Brothers Paradise Lost Peach Mango (LCBO 43121, 473 mL, $5.50) retains a bright acidity that complements the sweetness of ripe peach and mango for a perfectly bal anced sip.

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