Juice Machine W/ Guava
Tree House Brewing Company

One month in the can pours richly into my Tree House snifter Tulip glass with an opaque burnt orange murk and a rich froth heady that overspent my pour. Aroma is def guava overload. Taste follows with notes of fruit sorbet, lime rind, delicious fresh fruitiness, vanilla , sugar cookies, light and bitter , light dank, light smaky num. num. I was fooled into believing I would knock a ranking due to the guava puree but dang, this is really good. Retains the lightness and dank in contrast to the dipa abv. Feel is true medium for TH, Really well done, I expected Niagara Falls high class stripper, and got the first love college girlfriend, always honored but not my true love of my life (my wife reads these reviews). I do truly love all fruit from hops, so my overall reflects that prejudice.

 

16oz. Can into a Finback pint. Pours with a slightly brown hue among a muddy, hazy orange. Thick head and lace. Guava abounds in the nose. Mixed with pineapple, cantaloupe, and tropical citrus fruit. Beer opens guava, cane sugar, vanilla, and pineapple. Citrus and other tropical fruit sweetness remain the background. Pit and pine bark bitterness in the back. Body is light with ample carbonation. Soft on the palate. Dry. Short finish.

Very solid.

Picked up two cans at Tree House Brewery in Sandwich, Massachusetts for about thirteen dollars. My three hundred and ninety seventh brew reviewed from these guys. Pretty solid.

 

 

 

 

Taking hops to the juice, Tree House teases with the line that separates fruit juices from hazy IPA. It all shows that after nearly thirty years of beer studies, I no longer know the difference between craft beer and fruit punch.

Their Guava rendition os Juice Machine churns out a turbidly haze and heavily silted pour. As its golden slurry settles underneath a dense and foamy lather, a heavy perfume of tropical fruit joins with citrus, stone fruit and orchard fruit for a true cocktail of aromas. But before the fruitiness strikes, a malty-sweet upstart of cereal, sugar cookie, honey and shortbread provide a dense grain base taste.

And here comes the fruit as the hoppy impressions of orange, mango, apricot, apple, passionfruit and papaya provide its own cornicopia of fruitiness. Then the overcast of guava gives the ale a boost of fruit flavor with its own juicy, earthy and sweet tropical identity. Trending softly bitter, the late taste is easily mistaken for tropical fruit rinds with hints of herbal grasses and smooth balsa.

Full bodied, creamy and sweet throughout, the juicy ale seems to finish with lychee, honeydew and dragonfruit in a bittersweet finish and a linger of dank fruitiness.

Canned on 3/1/24; consumed on 3/18/24

Pours a turbid, glossy pumpkin-orange hue capped with multiple fingers of creamy, off-white foam; solid head retention leaves a choppy cap, modest, soapy collar, and steady array of webby lacing spread around the walls of the glass.

Aromas of guava peel and fragrant lime zest open, with wet grass and cream of wheat accents settling over time to a potent guava syrup and green strawberry peak, while hints of mango peel comprise the back end of the bouquet.

Taste offers a vast guava expanse into a sorbet peak, with a delicate floral aspect informing tropical rind over the mid-palate while cream of wheat undertones meet hints of underripe papaya toward the finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body and moderate carbonation, yielding a slight prickle and earthy bittering as slick, juicy texturing takes hold past the mid-palate, leaving a distant twang on the back end as into a brighter finish.

Densely guava forward as expected, with overarching waves of tropical bog eased against juicy contrasts; a solidly executed, boldly fruited NEIPA.

 

Had on tap at Charlton. Pours hazy, orange gold in color with three quarter inch head. Taste big guava, melon, and tropical fruit. Medium-heavy body, moderate carbonation, bitter. I prefer baseline Juice Machine but this is a nice and tasty experiment. Guava really shines and amplifies the rest of the beer.