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"DON'T FRUIT  THE BEER?!" ?   

ONLY if
THAT AIN'T  STRAWBERRY!
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Adjuncts & Flavorings
Award Winning Flavors
Special Offer
Adjuncts & Flavorings
Licorice

Fruits and spices are key ingredients in some beer styles. While fruit beers and herb beers are often listed as style categories unto themselves, fruits and spices are sometimes used to contribute to the flavour and aroma profile of other styles. Vegetables have also been used in beers. Honey, molasses, candy sugar, or other fermentable sugars may be added to impart their distinct flavours to a beer. While not an ingredient per se, some brewers have experimented with aging their beer in barrels previously used for bourbon or other distilled spirits, imparting the flavour of both the wood and the spirit to the beer.

A number of traditional beer styles are brewed with spices. For example, Belgian witbier is brewed with coriander, Finnish sahti is brewed with juniper berries, and traditional beers in Britain are brewed with honey and spices. Also, some strong winter beers are flavoured with nutmeg and/or cinnamon, while ginger is a popular flavouring for a range of beers. Many commercially available pumpkin ales are made with pumpkin pie spices without any actual pumpkin.
Spices may be added to the wort during the boil or spices or spice extract may be added at any time during fermentation depending on desired results.
Spices used in brewing include:
Allspice
Anise
Cinnamon
Clove
Coriander
Ginger
Hot pepper
Juniper berries or boughs
Licorice
Nutmeg
Orange or Lemon peel
Spruce needles or twigs (see spruce beer)
Yarrow
Other, less common flavourings include chocolate, coffee, milk, chile peppers and even oysters.

Fruits have been used as a beer adjunct or flavouring for centuries, especially with Belgian lambic styles. Cherry, raspberry, and peach are a common addition to this style of beer. Modern breweries may add only flavoured extracts to the finished product, rather than actually fermenting the fruit.

Contemporary breweries produce beers flavoured with tequila from blue agave nectar,  a tequila-flavoured beer popular among German and French youth, and pumpkin-flavored beers brewed seasonally in the autumn in North America.
Chile pepper is used to flavor pale lagers. One of the most popular American chile beers is produced in Taos, New Mexico; made with New Mexico roasted green chiles.
And a brewery in Arizona features the only internationally marketed chile beer.

Sahti - from Finland; a distincly 'banana' tlavor, due to the yeast
Sahti - from Finland



Greetings!

Ron Knight - Station Imaging & 
PromosSeasonal merchandising of flavors leads us also to thoughts of beers, brews and ales - crisp, light, refreshing, and euro styled individual hand crafted brews with hints of flavor from the old world like honey, orange, citrus and the unique ideas of taverns and brewpubs that serve hand crafted, custom batch Flavored Ales! KegTrader now offers brews from many of the leading brewers in the largest, fastest growing region of Brewers Guilds in North America, by their brand and special flavors... or we can Private Label for your Special dine-in restaurant or chain brand! 

KegTrader knows the trend, and we have an entire history of brewers' flavors and adjuncts most used as fruits, herbs and spices; Blueberry, Raspberry, Marshmallow... 
Because we have flavors that stem from a 37 year history in research on every flavor, from the leisure destination, amusement park and candy store markets, we know the flavor trends by culture, for your best beer and Ale service and sales.  
 
As delivered right from the case, six pack, bottle, Keg or Bottle... we have the flavored ales that go beyond just basically affording a slight color hue, perhaps a sweetness or essense from an extract. Our ales and smal batch beers for our reselling clients feature so much more niche and nuance of flavor, an attribute life experience, rather than just being "sweet" or more "essenced".. as the one time flavor contribution one off.
 
Award Winning Flavors since 1984
Ron Knight - Station Imaging & Promos

Having served all of the clients in foods, fun foods, fair foods, beverages, food and beverage service equipment manufacturers, I heard the mission statement, the specs, the pitch and the comparable from each and every one. Then I met Al Weist.

Al had come from an ingenious family background and lineage of German Pastry Bakers... his mother, his mother's mother.. four generations in fact of stealth 'in the blood' genetic knowledge of fruits, flavors, spices, additives, stabilizers and more.

Al had created the first syrup, due to its unique patent formula blending, that actually flowed into and suspended into the cut of the shave ice crystal - yielding a fluffy, tender, instant frozen concoction texture, that would eat like a sherbet - yet could only be described much like a frozen cotton candy... that then collapsed and disappeared in the mouth with instant cooling freshness, but featured  a solid, highly defined frozen dessert taste all the way down to the last bite.                                                  
Understanding his genius, creating the first Gourmet Shave Ice Syrups, we became fast pals and a great team. We used to talk about what typical concessionaires, snack bars and restaurants would serve up as "Strawberry". We'd say "That AIN'T Strawberry! - That's....  just RED!" 

We promoted over 327 flavors, bang dead-on the money.  Disney Parks was amazed, and started the line. As did Busch Parks... at the time obviously owned by Anheuser-Busch.

Winning numerous Awards, and conspiring to move into flavored waters, coffee syrups, for years we've enlisted a hunt for wineries and breweries, knowing that our famous  taste and formulas would leap upon the springboard for flavored wine coolers and of course, Flavored Beers and Ales.

Making two small changes to the formulas for options on secondary or post batch, and now located in the heart of the fastest growing region in America for Craft Brews and Microbreweries, we're pleased to represent the finest of flavored and award winning micro brew ales and beer beverage for export sale. Whether you're importing one of our fine partner Microbrew label brand ales or having us Private Label the brew for your brand named restaurants and stores, contact KEG Distribution for the finest, "most favored" Flavored Ales; for export or large fast food chain tavern / pub chain orders.  


Ron Knight - Station Imaging & Promos

 
Special Offer!
Up to 50 gallons of Flavored Brew - FREE - ready to serve by the 15 1/2 gallon Keg; when you order from KEG Distribution. 

Flavored Ales - Your choice of Flavor
With so many flavors to choose from, we suggest only but a few to set your special flavored ales offerings in motion. 

1) Raspberry -  works so well with a wheat ale base, also takes nicely to a light pilsner

2) Cranberry Orange - Holiday Season -

3) Lemon/Lime - a cross between the British Shandy and Mexico's Con Limon

4) Licorice/Black Currant - Our special private label "Spooky Brew" for our Classic Rock Breweries label. Great for Halloween/seasonal or ongoing in the family of light "Jagermeister" ideas, but actually much more enlivened by the dark berry.


5) Citron - blend of 5 citrus for summer ales. with hints of tangerine, grapefruit and other light citrus - the fresh clean taste for early mid summer weather.


6) Pomegranate - ah, a seasonal journey into the Middle East - clean, with a light gold, pilsner, and even tops on an amber.

7) Chocolate Malts - Blends nicely on your darks

8) Pina Colada - hints of pineapple and classic coconut top off for late Spring

From our entire flavor line: We've found what blends and touches well into a variety of beers and ales, direct or blends into new composite flavors to add a hint of remarkable varieties.  


CALL US or email and we'll set you up with one extra order for 3 (three) 15 and 1/2 gallon kegs, or the case equivalent; when you order any combinaton of flavored ales from our sales represented Craft Brew houses - FREE!
Minimum orders apply. Retail value of up to 46.5 gallons of ready to serve brew, should be valued at your retail selling price to the customer of an average 384 pints on tap.

At $4.00 per pint - your "free" profit is $1,536.00 USD
At $5.00 per pint - your free profit is $$1,920.00  
or by option - 23 cases of 24 in a case 12 oz bottles or cans.
Table tents and other in store merchandisers provided to promote our new flavored ale line to customers.

KM Products Group
& KEG Distribution

a Division of Knight Entertainment Group
Specialty market products in
craft beer and microbrewery brands.  

Cheers!    Salud!    Skol!   

Call or or email today. (619) 573 9919  or (310) 779 9885

 
KEG 
Distribution
7949 Eastridge Drive

La Mesa, CA 91941
619 573 9919, 310 779 9885 
 rknight@kegtrader.com