Strawgator - Stout

Beer style: Strawberry Doppelbock

Strawberries are one of the first summer fruits of the year and are usually ripe in May, depending on the weather and variety The strawberry season spans two glorious months, during which we enjoy them with every meal Oatmeal in the morning tastes even better when topped with the red fruit, and they also cut a pretty good figure on Nutella toast After lunch, we have a bowl of strawberries with a pinch of vanilla sugar, in the afternoon we eat at least two pieces of strawberry sponge cake with sweet whipped cream and on the first warm summer nights we ring in the ice cream season with a few scoops of strawberry ice cream

Because the strawberry season is over far too quickly, the Abita brewery has come up with a fine beer, Louisiana Strawberries were the national fruit of their home state in 1980 and are known for their high sugar content Louisiana celebrates the sweet fruit year after year with a big strawberry festival Abita's Strawgator is a fruity interpretation of their Andygator double bock and combines its balanced malt character and crisp bitterness with the summery sweetness of the strawberry To transport the red beauty into the beer, a generous amount of freshly squeezed strawberry juice is added after filtration