Focus On The Fruit
Tree House Brewing Company

 

It's official! Craft beer is now health food. Chocked with enough peach and guava that Tree House's hop-bomb of an IPA is now classified as a smoothie.

Pale and tarnish peach, Focus on the Fruit struggles to release a froth, but after a patient settling, a ripe and radiant scent of tropical fruit, stone fruit and soft herb plays on the nose. Creamy, dense and richly textured, the first sip is chocked full of fruit sweetness, cake batter and seemingly coconut cream. With the hops adding fruity layers of orange, lime, grapefruit and mango, the peach additions are what reigns supreme. All tied together with the juiciness of guava and the smoothie ensemble is complete.

Full bodied, plush and firmly residing on the sweeter side of bitter-sweet, the rich and dense ale is a sipper for sure. The can should come with a spoon.

Tree House Brewing Co. "Focus On The Fruit"
1 pint can coded "LIVE WELL 04.30.26". Sampled on 05.26.26
$13.50 / 2-pk at the brewery in Charleton, MA

Notes via stream of consciousness: OMG, this is a quadrupel IPA at 10.5% ABV with peach and guava puree! It's poured an opaque yellowed-tan body beneath a thumb's width of slightly yellowed off-white foam. The aroma is fruity and softly resinous but I'm not getting any specific peach or guava. On to the taste - I'm getting the guava right upfront, followed by the peach, and both are wrapped in a blanket of sweet, rich malt. I'm also getting apple, pear, strawberry, and a touch of raspberry. Damn, that's delicious! There's some clear alcohol there, as there should be at 10.5% abv, some "hop burn", and a bit of hoppy resins. It's a massive, intense beer, and I keep looking for more character but I'm not finding anything beyond what I've already listed, and that's OK, I prefer it that way. Thankfully they didn't do anything crazy like add vanilla because that would've taken it too far in my opinion. It is like a milkshake IPA or "smoojie" though, just with more alcohol. It's intense, and definitely a sipper. The combination of alcohol and "hop burn" is lighting up my palate. In the mouth it's full bodied and smooth with a whole lot of extra proteins. I'm tasting some oats in the sweet malt, but I'm guessing everyone would have already expected that. It's a Tuesday at 11:23 am, and it's 78˚F in the shade and humid, and I'm reminded of being in New Orleans because where else would you b drinking a 10.5% abv drink at 11:30 in the morning? I have one more of these but I'm going to save that as an after-dinner sipper, almost a dessert beer. I wasn't expecting this to work out so well - me of little faith.
Review #9,537

This is a real coup for a quad. I am not getting any nose. Super fruit taste. Peach really coming through. I was expecting syrupy sweet, but not the case. Nice hop balance. Not boozy at all. Beer that tastes more like juice than beer is not normally my jam. I make an exception here.

 

Sticky, volcano pour, real yellow fruity suspension, smell is very sweet, taste and feel is into daiquiri territory, sorta experiencing the alcohol in the mouth, it definitely pushes your expectations in a weird way. It’s not terrible, obviously a 3 is decent, but it’s not a Tree House home run.

Pours milky hazy, orange in color with one inch head. Taste is fermented guava and fermented mango. Heavy body, moderate low carbonation, sticky, sweet. Nice for a quad iPa. Really blurring the line between straight fruit juice, past it's prime. Tasty but good with the two pack.