Good Beer Company Two Fruits
Good Beer Company Two Fruits is a 750mL dark Flanders-style mixed-culture ale brewed with blackberries and boysenberries by The Good Beer Company of Santa Ana, California — oak-barrel aged until the dark base and the two berries knit into one tart, vinous pour. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- Size: 750mL
- Style: Dark Flanders-style mixed-culture ale
- Fruit: Blackberries and boysenberries
- Aging: Oak-barrel aged
- Origin: Santa Ana, California
Two Berries, One Dark Barrel-Aged Ale
The name is the recipe: Two Fruits takes The Good Beer Company's dark, Flanders-leaning mixed-culture ale — fermented with the house culture in Santa Ana's Santora Arts Building brewery, founded in 2014 by Brandon Fender and Robyn Spevacek — and ages it in oak with blackberries and boysenberries. The dark base brings a vinous, lightly balsamic depth that pale sours never reach, and the berries land as tart fruit rather than jam. The brewery's Santa Ana chapter has closed, so these bottles are a finite record of the program. Browse more craft beer, visit the Good Beer Company vendor page, or contrast its pale, guava-fruited sibling, Good Beer Company Gild the Lilly.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Dark berries over a vinous, oak-touched base. Palate: Tart blackberry and boysenberry through a Flanders-style frame — fruity acidity, a whisper of balsamic depth, dry mixed-culture funk beneath. Finish: Dry, tart and berry-stained.
How to Enjoy
Serve it cold in a tulip or wine glass. Dark fruited sours are natural partners for duck, aged gouda, dark chocolate and berry desserts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which two fruits are in Two Fruits? Blackberries and boysenberries — the pair named in the listing and the beer's research record, folded into a dark Flanders-style mixed-culture ale aged in oak.
Is it a lambic? No — it is a Flanders-style sour ale brewed in California with a mixed culture. Lambic is a protected Belgian tradition from the Senne valley; this is an American farmhouse take in that spirit, not the thing itself.
What does Flanders-style mean? A sour ale in the Flemish tradition — dark, vinous and oak-aged, with fruity acidity and a lightly balsamic depth, as opposed to the pale, sharper German-style sours.
Dark, tart and twice-berried — order Good Beer Company Two Fruits online from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA.