Bigger Guava
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

16oz can with illegible date code.

Pours cloudy gold with an inch-plus head of white. Pure Guava juice is the nose with mango following through. Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Guava, mango on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Finishes lush and ripe.

 

 

 

 

 

16oz can courtesy of Roguer (and forgotten in the fridge courtesy of my dumbass self). Canned on September 19, 2022.

Outstanding looking beer. Orangey yellow in color, and entirely opaque. Big, creamy, off-white head. Almost looks like it was served on nitro when I poured it into the glass. Lots of spider web-like lace.

Smells as advertised. I enjoy drinking guava as a fruit juice, and this smells like that along with a mildly bitter hoppiness in the background.

Tastes like how it smells, but with more oomph. Guava and fruit salad like flavors are up front, with a tropical and citrusy hop bitterness in the background, most notably at the Midway point. There's also a slight sweetness reminiscent of vanilla. Finishes like it began.

Medium bodied, with a creamy mouthfeel.

I'm not always into fruit juicy ipas, but this one is really good and extremely well balanced it's worth noting that there's little hint of the high alcohol present in the taste. For that reason I probably not choose to session this, but I sure would want to. Thanks, Andrew!

Poured from a 16 oz tallboy into a Tree House tulip

L: Hazed/opaque medium golden pour. Foamy white head leaves outstanding lacing.

S: Tropical fruit and guava. Passionfruit and citrus. More guava.

T.F: Semi-sweet up front. Loads of citrus and guava. Tropical melange... orange juice, a bit of melon, and then more guava. Super smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Medium bodied... and hides its hefty ABV. No real bitterness. Oily hops and guava to finish.

O: Hits what it aims for. A Tree House hazy IPA base goofed up on guava fruit. Enjoyable brew.... nice change of pace beer.

 

Sent my direction by the ever-generous @WunderLlama during NBS BIF #16

Pours a colloidal chalky pale orange. Massive two fingers of soft foam is lovely, and as it slowly dissipates, it looks as though it's leaving some nice lacing, though the dissipation is slow enough that I will have to check back in to confirm that impression. (confirmed)

Nose is freeze dried fruit all right. I know it's guava because it says so on the can, but honestly it kind of gives me more of a white peach impression. As it sits and warms, I can see the more tropical guava side coming through, though I think peach/guava are closer in approximation than I had ever realized until now. Yeah as it warms and the head dissipates, that's unmistakably guava. Which makes sense considering it's basically alcoholic guava juice.

Flavour is harsh oily hops that are pushed forcefully into the tropical fruit realm from an oily citrus and tropical intro by the addition of literal guava. Distilled guava essence and oily hops dominate. If there's any malt in there (there is), it's only enough to make it not be hop water. Sharp hops meet an almost yeast-like impression as the finish turns to oily lime and guava juice.

Fine pinpricks of carbonation distract from the body, and the finish gets kind of cloying by about halfway through the glass. It feels like the kind of beer that will leave you with a headache.

I think this style of IPA is not my favourite, but I am eternally grateful to Maynard for letting me find that out for myself rather than just being a curmudgeon. It may not be my preferred IPA expression, but thank you for sending it my direction so I can experience the phenomenon in person!!

 

 

L - pours a murky brown orange with faintly glowing fringes. Sticky lacy and some good-looking legs.

S - straight guava candy. Overwhelms the senses as our sub-aromas trickle in. Peach, grape must, and the tanginess you get from OJ.

T - guava, as expected, but the peach vies heavily for that top spot. I can taste the freeze-dried nature of the guava the most through its gritty, tangy sensations with a hint of ice water. Vanilla helps to curb the harshness of orange juice, giving way to creamsicle flavors. Not unwelcome, that's for sure! A fireworks explosion of fruit punch flavors. There's something nostalgic about the way this tastes that I can't quite put my finger on... reminds me of emulating Kingdom Hearts on my shitty laptop in college that could barely run PCSX2. Finishes mildly bitter, zesty, and drying. Begs another sip. And another...

F - foamy with electricity. Supple and full-bodied, but lively and spicy in its carbonation. I'm in.

O - pleasantly surprised with this one. Usually TH guava beers are way too guava-forward, but this features some nice balance and even the Very Hazy base beer makes an appearance!

Brewers Notes: Bigger Guava is Very Hazy 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!

Can poured into a bearded iris will becher glass, pours a hazy mango colored liquid with a two finger off white creamy foam cap

Aroma is guava, eponymously named

Taste is guava, a marketing genius named this beer

Hop taste , no bite, low sudsing, spotty lacing

Good beer

Picked-up two cans at Tree House in Sandwich for about thirteen dollars. My two hundred and seventy fourth brew from these guys. Canned on date of 9/15. Very good.