Passion Fruit Guppy
Pipeworks Brewing Co.

 

 

 

Pours a very slightly hazy golden gorse colour. Smells like unripe mango, crisp hops, light bready malts, and slightly fruity. Tastes light, crisp, juicy mango, slightly bitter hops, with a grapefruit pithiness. Solid and crushable.

nice fruity session IPA. great for outdoors in the sun

 

 

 

 

 

A- Tallboy pours into a snifter with a very cloudy, milky yellow body and a creamy white cap. Head retention is okay seeing the two finger cap fall to a small ring around the edges. Rare spotty lacing.

S- Tropical fruit hops lead the way with notes of stone fruits, dank herbs, citrus and passionfruit following up on that. Citra and passionfruit at this stage with minimal yeast and malt character to sniff.

T- The passionfruit becomes more evident compared to the aroma as well as an obvious bitterness and the emergence of more citrus hop character in the form of grapefruit. Bitter grapefruit, sharp hop oils, passionfruit, lime, onion, dank weed, apricot and mango in rough order of strength. A touch of sweetness and pale mashed barley.

MF- Light bodied and somewhat on the watery side for the style. Just a touch creamy with a crisp and bubbly moderately high carbonation. Sharp grapefruit oil bitterness in the finish.

The aroma is good and the flavor is just about there as well but the body is just too thin even for something billed as a session beer. It allows the flavor to feel thinned out and grapefruit eventually takes over the more subtle, delicate tastes.

 

L: A little hazy and almost has the look of a weisse. Kind of odd for a non-NE IPA...unless this is something like a NE IPA? I have no idea.
S: Not bad, not terrible. A little bit of tropical fruit and no off-flavors.
T: Disappointing. Where is the passion fruit? It's light and mildly tart, but I expected more.
F: Doesn't feel thin.
O: This just could have been executed better. I love sessions and wish this was better.

Pours a hazy apricot yellow with a thick head that dissipates rapidly but leaves okay lacing. The aroma is citrusy hops. The flavor is a touch tart, citrusy and not much else. Carbonation and feel are fine. Overall an adequate session ale, but one I wouldn't look for again.

 

 

Body seems too light...watery even for the style...tastes like a fruit added IPA with notes of passion fruit and grapefruit. Aroma is mild but includes some passion fruit. Hoeny doesn't add much. Pretty unremarkable.