The Art of the Fruit Tart with Urban Artifact

Drinkers today are drawn to recognizable flavors—especially fruit flavors—and we have more options than ever for adding fruit to our beers. Yet there’s an underappreciated art to making flavorful, delicious, balanced, drinkable beers that really taste like the fruit that’s in them—those where you have to keep going back for more. Few breweries have had as much success with fruit beers—or have accumulated as much intelligence on what works and what doesn’t—as Cincinnati’s Urban Artifact, known for their “fruit tarts” such as berry-laden Gadget, lemon-lime Spyglass, and tropical Teak—which we named one of our Best 20 Beers in 2022.