Maracuya IPA
Horse & Dragon Brewing Company

16 oz can. Pours hazy yellow gold with a medium frothy white head that retains fairly well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet and tart tropical fruit with some floral notes.

The flavor is sweet tropical fruit with a bit of a tart grapefruit bitterness and some floral hops. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, a nice fruity IPA. Much better than their Zest of Both Worlds.

 

 

 

 

an ipa with passion fruit, another well executed and inventive beer from these guys. the thing i like about it most is that its still an ipa before a fruit beer, sure there is a lot of tangy passion fruit in here, especially later on, but the hops dominate all the way through, its plenty bitter, and its not shy about that. smart. a little haze to this and a very pale color. a puffy white head looks pretty on top. the nose and taste here are juicy hops, citrus driven for sure, and aided in fruitiness by the passion, which comes on a little past the midway mark of this, and adds a lot more tang than sweetness, seemingly quite authentic to the real fruit. the flavor has some good complexity, vegetal high alpha hops, grapefruit, soft honey-like malt sweetness, zing from the passion fruit, and then a nice gripping bitterness at the end. its like they built the ipa to have the fruit addition compliment the hops, not just spiked an independent ipa with the juice or something, real well thought out and engineered in that way. refreshing too despite being a little sweet. i am quickly getting over the fruited ipa trend, but they did a nice job with this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a maroonish amber with an off white head that quickly recedes. Aroma and flavor is passionfruit and grapefruit, offering a slight tartness with a touch of candy like sweetness and a mild undercurrant of caramel. A light, active mouthfeel. Overall, very solid IPA here. Would drink again.