Ken Burns Presents: Guava, Passionfruit, Apricot (Ep. 11)
BlackStack Brewing

 

 

 

Ordered from Tavour and chilled. Poured into an imperial pint glass.

Look: brownish yellow with a small finger sized light creamy head with large bubbles that dissipated quickly and left no lacing. The purée was thick looking and created an intense purée look.
Smell: Intense smell of guava and passion fruit with some underlying notes of apricot. The funk of the fruit together make it smell like a fruit smoothy juice like a V8 fruit juice.
Taste: Taste follows the smell. Up front there is an intense guava and passion fruit flavor, following is intense sour with notes of apricot that linger for a while. Interesting combination of flavors that almost get some funk in the mid palate. There is no hop presence and no booze.
Feel: The sour fruit notes make this medium body beer feel more full than it actually is. The lactose makes it feel thicker and helps the sour chase easier. There is a moderate tickle of carbonation.

Interesting smoothy beer. The intense sour provides a serious pucker factor. Watching Bren drink this was funny with the sour beer face she had going. The combination of fruit flavors make this a bit funky on the back palate and we are undecided if we like the funk.

Cheers everyone!

A: The beer is very murky brownish yellow in color. It poured with a short white head that quickly settled down, leaving a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of guava are present in the nose along with notes of passion fruit.
T: The taste follows the smell and has additional notes of apricot towards the finish. There is a moderate amount of sourness.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is quite fruity and does a good job at highlighting the flavors of the three fruits in the taste.

Serving type: can