Cava Guava
Gun Hill Brewing Company

Pale gold and close to clear in a tulip glass; side pour produced a coupla fingers of white head that left lace lines down the glass... Brewed with guava puree and Mosaic, Azacca, and Motueka hops in a brut style... 7.5% abv, canned 10/15/18...

The fruitiness of the guava is apparent on the nose and palate, but it dries quickly and the beer has a nice crisp profile with an almost oaky edge - not tannic, but dry... Floral and herbal aromas suggest grasses, pine and distant orchard fruits... A vague barnyard type of funkiness underscores the affair and rounds everything off nicely...

The body is light-to-medium-feeling - fairly effervescent but with a supportive malt backbone that adds some biscuit and cracker, perhaps a lightly honeyed touch on top of citrusy, lemon pith notes...

Technically only my second "brut IPA" but I've had my share of saisons and brett beers, and this has a nice rustic farmhouse character, elevated by a dry presentation that serves the hop bill well - and the guava additional is handled well, not heavy handed, but simply as a flavor point...

Dug it...