Pop! - Passionfruit
Grimm Artisanal Ales

 

 

Last beer at the second office. Today we're moving so we decided we could celebrate with this beer.

Poured a BrewDog snifter.

A: Body is faint yellow and totally opaque as it appears to be very delicious. The head is white but is lost quite quickly. No retention at all.
S: Aroma starts with a chunk of acidity, moving on to a slight astringent vanilla tone and a minor lactose tone.
T: Taste begins with vanilla and then moves on to a milky mango fusion of both lactose sugar providing a smooth, sugary and dense tone to the mango flavour that's very pristine. Before moving to the last part, there's a huge passionfruit tone everywhere. In the end, the acidity is almost white wine like, having so much crispiness that's delicious.
M: Body is low to medium. Carbonation is spot on. Alcohol is unnoticed. Sweetness is low, bitterness is lower and acidity is mild.
O: First Grimm beer. Loved it.

Pouring from a 22 oz. bottle into a tulip glass, this beer pours out pale in color. It resembles white grape juice and forms a tightly packed, pinky width, white crown. Lemon/straw color.

The nose is bursting with fruit. Passion fruit along with notes of dragon fruit, oranges, tangerine and even some peaches. Almost smells like a sunny d type drink. Some saison like earthy funk.

The taste comes in with an earthy funk mixing with tart and tangy fruit. You can definitely pick up the lactose by the creamy nature of the mouthfeel, but don’t detect any vanilla. Maybe a slight sweetness, but I wouldn’t recognize it as vanilla. The tartness is a good amount and it stings the lips. Good carbonation to make it thirst quenching.

Overall, it is an enjoyable Berliner that isn’t a bad offering in the bomber format.

 

Pours a hazy, pale yellow with some fine, soapy head.

Smell is tart and fruity with notes of passionfruit, lime, grass and some youghurt.

Taste is mildly tart with a little bit of sweetness lurking around. Notes of passionfruit, lemonade, youghurt and lemongrass.

Mouthfeel is thin to medium, with bright carbonation.

Overall, a very nice, mild sour. Easy to drink and very refreshing.

A 22 fl. oz. bomber, bottled in January 2018. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.

Appearance: A very hazy straw yellow colour with a less than two finger white head that dissipated quickly and left only some sparse lacing.

Aroma: Tart, sweet, passionfruit, guava and bubblegum.

Taste: Lightly sour, tart, passionfruit and guava with a touch of grapefruit. Finish is sweetish.

Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate to high carbonation.

Overall: Didn’t get much vanilla, but this was very nice and easy to drink. My kind of flavours!

 

Enjoyed the light vs heavy lactic. Nice refreshing tartness. Head and body a bit weak but more in contrast to the well constructed nose and taste. As described... passionfruit. Nice spin/variant. Overall pleasant refreshing summer brew

 

Hazy peach color, no head. Aroma has really dank passionfruit, cat pee and cabbage. Taste is sweet and tart, a bit astringent, fruity and dank. Medium body and carbonation. If you like dank passionfruit, this is for you.

 

 

This was like a sour lite. Both in that the sweetness of the vanilla and lactose cut down on the sour finish, but it also had a soda like taste in the lemon lime on the finish and the high carbonation. The passionfruit crushed it as the star of the front of the taste, and the berliner malts help ground all of the fruit sweetness. Light and satisfying.

Hazy straw colored pour with a small white head. Big tart fruit aroma. Taste follows the nose with a really nice tart tropical fruit flavor. Can taste passion fruit, mango, pear and papaya.

Picked this up last week at an ABC in Vero Beach, Florida...of all places. It was just sitting there on the shelf and it had been ages since I had something from Grimm so of course, I grabbed this and wanted to give it a go. Could not detect any vanilla with this but it was a fruity, tart beer with lots of carbonation that was on par with Grimm's other offerings and so easy to drink on a day where spring still seemed so far off...

Not a bad pour to this as the beer was blonde, milky, and cloudy with a fair amount of white, bubbly head that softly settled down. Very little lacing left on the side of my pint glass as this was quite thin in consistency, on par with it's style. Lots of tart fruit in the nose as there was raspberry and white grape up from, with hints of white wine, wood aging, oak, and wheat in the taste. True to form, a beer like this was a great example of why a Berliner Weissbier can be so easy to drink while having enough nuances to savor at the same time. Hard to find the vanilla and cream as the sweetness from the latter would have taken this up another level had it been more present.

I'm sure there was alcohol somewhere in this but it was so hard to find and even harder to pick up on my breath. Sure, it wasn't warm out today but if it was, this would be something I'd easily reach for and savor as the sun shone down on me. Fun stuff that had the juice from the passionfruit as a base for the sour and natural notes on top of it. Worth a go once for those who love Grimm or something to quaff before enjoying heavier offerings.

nice looking beer. on nose and palate there are both sweet and tart notes blending together really nicely. getting massive amounts of lychee, seedy berry notes, white grape, passionfruit, lemon/lime, wheat, grapefruity, slightly creamy sweetness that hints at vanilla. light bodied but has a good texture to it, goes down very easy and smooth. overall an interesting and delicious offering!