Imperial Passionfruit Tasmanian IPA
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

This one pours a light hazy yellow color. Wispy white head and moderately clingy lace. The aroma is of passionfruit with a earthy hop scent as well. Both fruity and bitterness in the taste. It hides its ABV fairy well. Full in body and interesting.

 

12oz can from the brewery. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy lacing. It smelled of passionfruit, orange, guava and caramel. Sweet tropical fruit taste with toasted caramel and a piney bitterness.

Taking their little devil of a beer from the land down under to a tropical vacation, Schlafly adds passionfruit to their imperial New Zealand hopped IPA.

Pouring a hazy golden-straw, Imperial Passionfruit Tasmanian IPA commands the senses with a tangy, fruity, sharp and perfumy scent that hovers over a stark white froth. As a gentle sweetness of malt applies a light honey and graham cracker coat of the tongue, the session quickly steers toward the hops. Passionfruit, kiwi, papaya, lemon, grape and pineapple all carry a drying bitterness even before the overcast of passionfruit additions bring a fruitier tone. A bitter forward balance brings a late taste of green tea, verbena and sassafras with hints of wine and hemp to close.

Medium-full in body, the added fruit shifts the weight of the beer higher but does give it a little pizzaz. where flavors are greater, the refreshment takes a hit for a nice trade off of character, but not necessarily an upgrade.

Copper colored with excellent clarity. There’s an inch of densely packed off white on top. It faded into a quarter inch and there’s light soapy lacing present. There’s aroma is heavily compromised of passion fruit. I’m tasting passion fruit and green veggies. The mouth is crisp and lightly sticky.