I don't like fruit wheat beers

I like hefeweizens, I like American wheats OK, too, and I'm not adverse to fruit beers, but I seem to be a dissenter on the notion that the two go together.

I think I find the fruit flavor fighting with the naturally fruity phenols in a hefeweizen. And overwhelming the relative lack of distinctive flavors in an American wheat.

All the fruit beers I've ever tasted that I like were in a base beer with a richer, maltier profile, like an amber ale or brown ale. I think I'm going to experiment with a raspberry brown ale this summer.

I was thinking the same thing as I racked my wifes wheat onto the apricot puree the other day. A two-row with some crystal lightly hopped would be more interesting to try one of these days.