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How much fruit can you add to one beer? Urban Artifact brews the answer

February 9, 2023Chris Crowell

Urban Artifact peaches

Millions of peaches, peaches for me. Millions of peaches, peaches for free. Well, unless you want to pack as many as possible into one beer. Then these peaches will become the world’s most expensive beer to brew, at least according to Urban Artifact.

The Cincinnati-based brewery’s Astronaut Food carries the largest payload of peaches ever to be used in an alcoholic drink. The 2023 edition of Astronaut Food will feature over 1,500 pounds of freeze dried real peaches. This is the equivalent of over 16,500 lbs of fresh peaches for a single batch, or 2 whole peaches per 8 oz can.

The out-of-this-world feat is only possible with pioneering brewing techniques and advanced subfreezing-vacuum fruit dehydration technology. Thus, the great expense.

Why do they do it? For the challenge.

The Freeze Dried Fruit Tarts that Urban Artifact makes, lovingly called “Astronaut Food” as an homage to their mainstay ingredient, were born out of our brew team’s natural curiosity. We’ve long pushed past traditional boundaries for fruit beers, and continually ask big questions like: “How could we possibly put any more fruit into our beers?”. It became a personal challenge for our team to crack this puzzle.

After all, if you keep adding more and more fresh fruit to your beer, at a certain point you’re actually adding more water than fruit flavor, which only acts to dilute the characteristics that are great about Urban Artifact’s Fruit Tarts.

This is why they turned to freeze dried fruit — fruit that has had the water removed. Two years of research and development later, the Astronaut Food line of fruit tarts was born.

This beer only comes around once a year, of course, and clocks in at 15% ABV. It is available in four packs of 8-oz cans in limited quantities wherever Urban Artifact products are sold.

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