Cynosure (Guava/Guava/Blackberry)
HOMES Brewery
- From:
- HOMES Brewery
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- Sour IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 12.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 21, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 27, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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DDH with Citra and Galaxy. Blended with pink guava, brazilian guava and blackberry. Aged on vanilla beans.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by buschbeer from Ohio
3.98/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
16 FL. OZ. can
Served in a stemless wine glass
This beer pours a murky pink hue. It is topped with a fleeting head.
The vanilla and milk sugar stand out more than the guava or raspberry. The fruit is not as present as it is in other Cynosure variants.
The fruit makes it up in the flavor. Guava and tart raspberry abound. The vanilla sweetens it up.
Full bodied with a smoothie mouthfeel
Good beer. Not as good as a lot of the other HOMES beers that I have had, but I wouldn't kick it out of the sack for eating crackers.
Jan 21, 2023Served in a stemless wine glass
This beer pours a murky pink hue. It is topped with a fleeting head.
The vanilla and milk sugar stand out more than the guava or raspberry. The fruit is not as present as it is in other Cynosure variants.
The fruit makes it up in the flavor. Guava and tart raspberry abound. The vanilla sweetens it up.
Full bodied with a smoothie mouthfeel
Good beer. Not as good as a lot of the other HOMES beers that I have had, but I wouldn't kick it out of the sack for eating crackers.
Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan
4.45/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
A - Pours a slushy reddish purple with a thin white head. Nice amount of soapy lacing.
S - Aroma is heavy blackberry and guava.
M - The taste is blackberry, guava, vanilla and a very light hop bite.
M - Medium body with medium/light carbonation. Pillowy mouthfeel with a soft dry finish.
O - Really tasted fruited sour ipa. Tons of fresh blackberry and guava. Perfect balance of sweet and tart.
Jul 13, 2020S - Aroma is heavy blackberry and guava.
M - The taste is blackberry, guava, vanilla and a very light hop bite.
M - Medium body with medium/light carbonation. Pillowy mouthfeel with a soft dry finish.
O - Really tasted fruited sour ipa. Tons of fresh blackberry and guava. Perfect balance of sweet and tart.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.33/5 rDev -16.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -16.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
No canning date (released on 6/27/20, so presumably canned within a few days of that date)
Pours a dense, slushie-like deep purplish maroon hue topped with a cascading multiple fingers of thick, rosé-colored foam; good head retention leaves around a finger of frothy cap along with a moderate collar; a minimal spotting of soapy lacing appears briefly along the walls of the glass.
Aroma brings out musty straw and a lacto acidity immediately, though is quickly overwhelmed by an almost prickly guava dominating the front end of the bouquet; mild vanilla brings a semi-creamy sweetness, while soft blackberry adds a brightness into the back end.
Taste opens with guava that's almost earthy, verging into notes of a prickly pink lemonade with a lactic acidity over the mid-palate; fresh blackberry is ever-present in the background as it steadily becomes denser, ultimately imparting smoothie-like tones to the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the lighter side of full, verging on boggy and thick along the palate, and is accompanied by a creamy, moderate carbonation extending across the palate; a lactic acidity reaches a mild, tart peak past the mid-palate, though is steadily overtaken by that familiar, swampy density into the finish.
While not unenjoyable in the least (the flavors are natural and beer as a whole is competently structured), part of me is questioning what a beer like this is supposed to bring to the table; heavily fruited, and with virtually no hop presence, I'm remiss to view this as anything but a slightly muddled, over-intensified Fruit beer; as a beer in general, it's alright, but it seems an identity crisis of sorts is holding it back.
Jul 08, 2020Pours a dense, slushie-like deep purplish maroon hue topped with a cascading multiple fingers of thick, rosé-colored foam; good head retention leaves around a finger of frothy cap along with a moderate collar; a minimal spotting of soapy lacing appears briefly along the walls of the glass.
Aroma brings out musty straw and a lacto acidity immediately, though is quickly overwhelmed by an almost prickly guava dominating the front end of the bouquet; mild vanilla brings a semi-creamy sweetness, while soft blackberry adds a brightness into the back end.
Taste opens with guava that's almost earthy, verging into notes of a prickly pink lemonade with a lactic acidity over the mid-palate; fresh blackberry is ever-present in the background as it steadily becomes denser, ultimately imparting smoothie-like tones to the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the lighter side of full, verging on boggy and thick along the palate, and is accompanied by a creamy, moderate carbonation extending across the palate; a lactic acidity reaches a mild, tart peak past the mid-palate, though is steadily overtaken by that familiar, swampy density into the finish.
While not unenjoyable in the least (the flavors are natural and beer as a whole is competently structured), part of me is questioning what a beer like this is supposed to bring to the table; heavily fruited, and with virtually no hop presence, I'm remiss to view this as anything but a slightly muddled, over-intensified Fruit beer; as a beer in general, it's alright, but it seems an identity crisis of sorts is holding it back.
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