10 Trending Fruit Flavors for Summer Beers

Discover 10 trending fruit flavors and brew the best-tasting summer beer your customers have EVER tasted!

Beer may be an all-season beverage, but there’s something about sipping on that perfect pint during the dog days of summer that just hits different. From a tart Berliner Weisse, a dry Kolsch, to the exquisite diversity of IPAs, summer beers hit the spot with easy drinkability and often a splash of fruit flavor. 

Summer beers are by no means a new concept, but changing consumer tastes and an influx of younger drinkers has created opportunities for this seasonal beverage. 

For example, a 2025 Future Market Insights report explains that major players in the fruit beer market are diversifying product lines and launching seasonal fruit-infused beers to appeal to novelty seekers. Some manufacturers are “bringing in fruit beers with tropical, exotic, and fusion flavors for Gen Z and millennials who tend to like the unusual.”¹ 

From sweet & spicy fusions to flavors that give consumers international experiences, it’s all about summer beers with unique fruit flavors. So, which fruit flavors are customers craving? Read on and discover ten trending fruit flavors and get inspired for your next summer beer! 

Skyfarm is built with terpenes so you can brew with recognizable fruit flavors without adding sugar, calories, or mouthfeel. Ditch worrying about the availability, cost, and challenges of whole fruit and fruit purees. No “off flavors” or floral junk, just high-amplitude fruit flavor top notes that are perfect for summer beers.

What’s Driving Fruit Flavor Trends?

The demand for fruit flavors isn’t necessarily new, but the drivers of trending fruit flavors (and flavor fusions) can be complex. For example, post-pandemic consumers may be less inclined to take risks. However, when it comes to beverages, a heightened interest in travel and experimentation has them seeking out extremes.

Some consumers find adventure and excitement through fusions of sweet & salty or sweet & spicy, while others want to experience history through regional fruit flavors. Fruits flavors like blueberry, blackberry, watermelon, and peach can convey “girl next door vibes,” and next-gen citrus fruits like pink grapefruit, blood orange, or key lime add bold complexity and global appeal.

Whether it’s a high ABV summer beer or even an NA beer, consumers are seeking out elevated flavor experiences. For example, innovative and unique fruit flavor fusions can appeal to their sense of adventure. Fortunately, terpene brewing solutions like the Skyfarm Series allow brewers to endlessly combine fruit flavors without the headache of harvest variabilities or import difficulties. 

Clementine

It may still be relatively novel, but according to Mintel’s Flavour Landscape for Beer in USA and Canada, the growth momentum for Clementine is high.² This sweet, orange-adjacent flavor has a breathtaking tartness that could add even more brightness to hops with citrus aromas like classic Citra®. 

Hi-Wire Brewing used a combination of Clementine Skyfarm and White RNTZ BrewGas in their Tides of Time. They brought this White IPA to the 2025 Skunkworks Lounge, and the combination of dank citrus was mind blowing.

Kiwi

This fruit flavor is still an up-and-comer, but breweries are waking up to the green, zesty potential of Kiwi. Tangy and tropical, Kiwi has a refreshing acidic quality that we could see in a variety of wheat, pale ales, IPAs, and sour beers. 

Hops with candy-like qualities, like El Dorado®, can reach new heights of flavor and aroma with the addition of Kiwi.

Peach

James the Giant, a luscious Double Hazy IPA from MAP Brewing, is the perfect example of what happens when an innovative brewer uses Peach flavors to their fullest potential. It’s still a relatively novel flavor in the beer space, but their use of this juicy, floral stone fruit combined with dank, berry-forward Gelato Brewgas is a lesson in balancing extremes. 

Consider pairing Peach with Cashmere to emphasize those sweet, stone fruit flavors. Conversely, pairing it with dank Strata® could create an entirely new depth of flavor that’s complex and begs for another sip. 

Raspberry

From Lambics to sours, raspberries are an established fruit flavor when it comes to some beer styles. Assuming that Raspberry is passé, however, would be a mistake. Tesco beer buyer Ben Cole told The Drinks Business that “the raspberry segment dominated the [global fruit beer category] with the largest revenue share of 29.3% in 2024.”³

With that in mind, we’re looking forward to brewing innovations that combine Raspberry in entirely new ways. Pairing the sweet, tartness of Raspberry with spicy Chinook or the candy-like zest of Eclipse® could yield some very tasty results.

Strawberry

Mintel categorizes Strawberry as a novel flavor with high growth momentum, but they emphasize a “wild” and “forest” aspect of this particular flavor. We’re imagining freshly picked strawberries with an added green element, perhaps pine or something herbaceous. 

That’s exactly what Hop Butcher for the World did with their submission for the first round of the Skunkworks competition, Strawberry Minted. This wild combination of their bourbon barrel-aged barleywine and chocolate mint stout is blended to silky perfection and boosted with bright Strawberry Skyfarm. This blast of soda fountain nostalgia was a huge hit and it easily sent them through to the final round!

Passionfruit

Passionfruit is a predominant flavor, meaning it’s one of the fruit flavors that make up a bulk of the flavor landscape for beer in the U.S. and Canada. Considering the versatility of this fruit flavor, it’s not hard to see why! It’s tart and tangy, vividly floral, and has brilliant notes of citrus that help it seamlessly blend with hops and a variety of other fruit.

Sour beers are a no-brainer for this exotic fruit, but a high-ABV hazy tropical IPA with Passionfruit would also be oh-so succulent. Tropical-forward hops like Nectaron® are an obvious pairing, but this fruit flavor could also add a robustness to something like Nelson Sauvin®. Don’t be afraid to get creative!

Guava

The lush florals and muskiness of Guava require a brewer with an expert touch, but when it's done right… utter perfection. As far as pairings, you can’t go wrong with dynamic Galaxy® or Mosaic®, but don’t be afraid to experiment with wildcard Motueka™ or even dank Super Sour Diesel BrewGas.

Need to taste it for yourself? Golden Road Brewing, the brewery responsible for the vivid yellow Mango Cart you might have seen on tap at your local watering hole, has now released Guava Cart. This twist on their successful mango-forward wheat ale blends Guava and Passionfruit for a tropical beer we’ll happily sip all summer long.

Pineapple

Another predominant player in the fruit flavor landscape, Pineapple is beloved for so many reasons. Any tropical beer will benefit from the vibrant, recognizable citrus in this fruit. No wheat ever went wrong with Pineapple, and IPAs from the West Coast variety all the way to Hazy benefit from the sweet sharpness of this fruit.

Vic Secret™ would blend beautifully with Pineapple, but don’t count out less tropical varieties like Cascade or spicy Chinook. 

Mango

Mango is a predominant fruit flavor for a very simple reason. Its rich, luscious flavor is exquisite on its own, but it also plays VERY well with others. Mango’s sweetness is a good counterbalance to any bitterness and brewers have taken note. Mintel observed that there were more mango-flavored raw product launches in 2024 than there were in the past decade.

Mountains Walking Brewery, a THREE-time winner of the Skunkworks Best in Show Award, took full advantage of Mango in their Sky Flowers Tropical. This twist on their now-legendary Sky Flowers series is a juicy combo of Mango Skyfarm and Pineapple Express BrewGas. It was bright, dank, oh-so tropical, and we’re still drooling just thinking about it.

Watermelon

Notoriously difficult to brew with, Watermelon is nonetheless an established flavor that offers brilliant flavor opportunities for adventurous brewers. There’s perhaps no better fruit flavor to capture the essence of summer, but Watermelon flavors can turn pale or muted without careful attention (Psst! You won’t have those issues with Watermelon Skyfarm!).

We highly recommend Sour Beers or Blondes for Watermelon, but Cigar City Brewing took innovation to new heights with their Watermelon Rice Lager, Barb Ross. With just a twelve vote difference between 3rd and 2nd place, they wowed everyone with a beer that was dripping in vibrant Watermelon flavor.

Abstrax | Brew The Best-Tasting Summer Beer with Skyfarm

At Abstrax, we provide novel solutions for beverage manufacturers looking to streamline, innovate, and gain a competitive edge. With our knowledge and extensive resources, we’ve crafted the Skyfarm Series to make it easier than ever to add the most aromatic fruit flavor top notes to beverages.

Each Skyfarm blend is TTB-approved, shelf-stable, and the flavor is ALWAYS consistent. But these blends go way, way further in terms of flavor, aroma, and handling.

• Strong, recognizable fruit flavors and aromas
• More potent than other fruit flavors and/or extracts
• No added sugars, calories, haze, or texture
• 100% utilization rate and ZERO yield loss
• Water-based emulsion
• No workflow modifications
• No risk of refermentation
• Use “Natural Flavors” on your ingredient list

Have your eye on a few Skyfarm blends already? Want to fuse several tropical flavors? Interested in tweaking a traditional fruit flavor to create something entirely new?

Contact us today, and let’s create the best-tasting summer beer your customers have ever tasted.

1. Future Market Insights. (2025, March 28). Fruit Beer Market Size, Share & Trends 2025 to 2035. Future Market Insights. https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/fruit-beer-market

2. Mintel’s Flavour Landscape for Beer in USA and Canada. Flavourscape AI. Mintel. (n.d.). https://clients.mintel.com/scapes/flavourscape/landscape?searchTerms=woTCp2ZsYXZvdXLCkMKuYXR0cmlidXRlR3LEhnDCkMKmcmVnaW9uwpLCpkNhbmFkYcKjVVNBwqhjxIvEm29yecKRwqRCZWVy

3. Mason, J. (2025, March 25). The 2025 Beer Trend You Can’t Afford to Miss Out On. The Drinks Business. https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/03/tesco-sees-sales-of-fruit-beers-rise-by-250/