The most common types of fruit employed include raspberries, peaches, red cherries, plums, and even cranberries. In a departure from all other types of beer, no yeast is injected into the wort. Natural airborn yeasts initiate fermentation. The brewing of Lambics can, in some cases, take years. Usually a gutted, vapid, shadow of a beer.
Few exceptions exist.
Created more for a quick hit of alcohol than for any sense of character or complexity. The bottom feeders of the beer category. These are keenly malty, medium to full bodied lagers which are aromatic and alluring. The color goes from a burnished orange to a dark copper. Bitter, which is marginally lighter than Pale Ale, can be included in this subcategory.