Jungle Boogie with Pineapple
Marz Community Brewing

Really weird beer - it is exactly what it says it is without tasting like what I was expecting. Wheat is a great canvas for other flavors - lending a nice slight tanginess to the tea and pineapple. A pretty looking brown - not unlike a steeping cup of tea. The pineapple combined with other flavors gives it less of a sweet accent and more tart. Not over the top in any tacit - good unique beer

 

 

Released late September 2018; drank 10/18/18 @ the Yarchives.

See-through dark orange appearance.

A violent pour yielded a huge eggshell head; thick, frothy lace.

Pineapple juice, cane sugar & faint black tea notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Cane sugar, pineapple juice & faint autumn leaf flavors up front; dry black tea notes on the finish.

Flavorful, unique & easy to drink; a bit odd, but certainly worthy. I'd have another!

Tasted in a Rastal Teku glass from a 1 pint 0.9 fl oz bottle on October 7, 2017. Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a 12 fl oz can on October 7, 2018.

 

Pours in the amber spectrum, with not a lot of head. Not too much going on in the smell department. Taste is where this beer shines. Basic pale flavor melds into a very pleasant pineapple with a clean finish. Enjoyed the brew.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought I was going to love this given my proclivity toward the jungle boogie series. It was good but not on the same level with the rest. My biggest qualm is the pineapple feels candied and artificial in contrast to the wheat and really, the tea that already brings in fruit and bittersweetness. Does draw out the other fruits more, especially orange and grapefruit.

amber in color. Fairly hazy. Huge pineapple. Underlying tropical fruit flavors and tea. Some malt poking through. Not bad, but I think regular Jungle Boogie is better.

 

With a fruit-forward balance and complexity of impeiral IPA but also with a malty counterpart of imperial pale ale, the pineapple-infused pale wheat ale by Marz takes the palate on quite a tropical ride. It surpasses hops with a deeply caramelized taste, an earthy and rounded rooibos tea character and the unmistakable charm of Mosaic hops.

Like the standard Jungle Boogie, the pineapple version pours wiht a hazy copper hue with amber and golden highlights. Its bready haze preludes the beer's tea and cakey scent with an aura of tropical, herbal, citrus and stone fruit. Its sweet taste is again poundcake-like with rich caramelization, pecan and toasted edges.

With the flavors developing on the middle palate, the beer's caramel, nutty and toasted maltiness begin to fade. In its wake, the hops, tea and pineapple begin to emerge. Succulent pineapple layers on the tongue first but with a strong display of mango, apricot, peach, grapefruit and orange midway through. Then the tea brings its own herbal complexity with bark-like, soft wood and honey-like tastes. Bitterness takes charge late with the IPA portion of the beer winning out in the end with a lightly pungent grassiness, cannabis and catty-like character.

Medium-bodied beginning to end, the herbal, tannin, and resinous bitterness of hops and tea assist each other in keeping the texture lighter and criper. Lingering herbs and grasses are never on an island as a hint of marmalade and hawaiian punch follows closely behind, even deep in aftertaste.