Big Guava
Tree House Brewing Company

Brewers notes : Big Guava is Haze conditioned atop heaps of guava purée! Big Guava carries notes of overripe guava, fresh fruit salad, orange juice concentrate, and clementines.

Big Guava is Haze conditioned atop heaps of guava purée and freeze-dried guava. This treatment concentrates the flavor profile and brings the most potent representation of our favorite tropical fruit to the forefront of this offering. Pouring a brilliant hazy yellow in the glass, Big Guava carries notes of overripe guava, fresh fruit salad, orange juice concentrate, and clementines. It carries a beautiful balance of hop, fruit, and yeast character that is carefully captured and locked into this can. Please keep it cold at all times and enjoy it as fresh as possible for the best experience—Enjoy!

Chilled pint can poured into a teku, big bubbles, glassy bubbles over a hazy mango colored liquid . Steady carbonation streams Settles to a ring ,

Very fragrant aroma, fruit salad , guava

Taste is fruit salad , guava , peaches

Juicy mouthfeel , low carbonation, medium mouthfeel, abv well hidden

Good beer

 

 

 

 

Cloudy, thick, orange in color with a thick white head!. Nose is all about citrus, oranges and fresh citrus fruits. Taste is very much citrus and maybe peach? Nice bitterness builds on backend of palate.

 

Guava is easy. But big guava? That’s a task that’s left up to Tree House to accomplish. Piled high on a juicy Tree House hazy IPA, this fruit hits new and higher tropical acclaim.

Turbidly and tarnish gold, Big Guava hits the glass with a pastel and heavily silted appearance. Beyond its mashed potatoes austere, its frothy white blanket brings a radiant scent of citrus, tropical, stone fruit and curious herb. Creamy and sweet on the tongue, the first rounded sip of honey, cereal, poundcake and cake batter provides a rich and juicy undertone.

As the hops blossom on the middle palate, a slow and steady fade of grain sweetness allows the natural citrus flavors of pink grapefruit, tangerine and lime to shine. More tropical flavors of mango, passionfruit and kiwi give a nuanced succulence ahead of more juicy apricot and nectarine. All wrapped in the subtlety of guava, the fruit cocktail of flavors is nearly complete. All fading into a smoothly bitter finish, hints o fruit peel, hemp, green tea, sassafras and verbena wrap up the show.

Full bodied and nearly cloying, the persistence of grain sweetness keeps the session rounded and juicy but also interferes with the drinkability and refreshment of the IPA. In Tree House’s attempt to elevate flavors, they’re starting to come at the sacrifice of palatability.

Very attractive beer on the style, a bit murky from the color, but I suspect the guava has a lot to do with that. Good head production, decent retention, and very nice lacing.

Very hoppy and fruity aroma, but it's not quite as explosive as some others in the style. The guava is present but lacks the earthy pungent edge that makes that fruit so unique. Additional notes of tangerine, peach, vanilla, pineapple. The more I sniff this one, the more I like it.

Phenomenally smooth on the palate. The added fruit definitely contributes to amplifying the guava notes without needing to up the hop dose, resulting in a smoother overall experience than a pure-hop beer. Tasting notes match the nose almost note-for-note, with the fruit coming in waves throughout the sip. Low but present bitterness, including some earthy bitterness from the fruit.

Mouthfeel is classic Tree House near-perfection: smooth, full bodied, soft, with just enough bite.

I generally don't gravitate toward Tree House's fruited IPAs, as I feel their unfruited IPAs are so spectacular that I don't want the experience altered by the addition of fruit. That's not to say that they aren't also spectacular, as this beer amply demonstrates.

Poured from a can dated 7/21/23
Thick cloudy orange yellow color, soft quickly dissipating white head, decent lacing and cap
Aroma is loud, pungent guava fruit is very noticeable as its poured
Taste is heavy on the guava with some mandarin sweet orange notes
Full bodied chewy mouthfeel. Kind of sticky, not real sweet and finishing with a slightly tart citrus rind feel. Low to medium carbonation
Overall it’s tropical tasting nice balance of sweet to tart a little on the astringent side. The layers are evident as you drink it.

 

 

 

 

16oz can dated 11/14/22.

Pours cloudy gold with an inch of white fluff. Guava, papaya, and mango in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Dripping tropicals on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Guava and papaya. Finishes juicy and tropical.