Big Shed Brewing Concern Boozy Fruit New England IPA

Boozy Fruit New England IPA

 

Big Shed Brewing Concern in Royal Park, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
6.83
ABV: 6.2% IBU: 15 Ticks: 17
You are looking at our one and only GABS 2018 winner, Boozy Fruit. After hitting GABS in 2015 with Golden Stout Time, we came back with our New England IPA take on Frosty Fruits. It's summer by the can!

Malts: Pale, Toffee, Wheat and Oats, Light Crystal
Hops: Galaxy, Wai-iti, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Cascade
 

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6/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Boozy Fruit on 25 Dec 2021 at 14:32 - Score: 6
Tried from Can from Craftbeer Shop on 25 Dec 2021 at 13:35

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
375ml can. Murky, orange, golden colour with average, frothy, rapidly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Intense, very juicy, smoothie-like, tropical fruity, hoppy aroma, notes of guava, passion fruit, mango, papaya. Taste is sweet, wheaty and oaty malty as well as juicy, tropical fruity hoppy, notes of guava, passion fruit, mango, papaya, minimally leafy, soapy overtones. Creamy, mushy texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft, creamy carbonation. Very intense, immensely fruity - good!
Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2021 at 00:32

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can. Muddy orange. Pineapple and passionfruit up the wazzoo. Doesn't quite hit the mark in that the beerness is lacking.
Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2020 at 12:38

5.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Ugly opaque brown with a cm of cream head. Aroma of orange and pineapple, sugar, artificial weirdness. Taste is more Splice than Frosty Fruit, with melted icecream and fruit ice. But it's not as sweet as feared and there is a neat bitter finish. Not my sort of thing but OK. Drink it in the dark though.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2018 at 12:15

7.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours murky/muddy clay coloured.Nose shows fruit confectionery by the truckload, little else.Flavours include more over artificial fruit confectionery. A hint of malt and bitterness.
Tried on 25 Jul 2018 at 11:56

8.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 9
From a 330ml bottle on 16/7/2018 (ABV listed as 6.2% not 6%). Pours a weird murky apple juice colour with a medium head. Has a pronounced tropical nose - lots of pineapple passionfruit and mango (and I'm getting that suffering terrible congestion from a cold). It starts with lots of the aforementioned tropical fruits. The sweetness is countered by a quite firm, tart, slightly spicy bitterness. The balance is just fantastic. The texture is almost milky with moderate to average carbonation. I'm pleasantly surprised this won people's choice at 2018 GABS, given it's quite unusual and a bit challenging. But damn it's tasty stuff. A genuinely great brew.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2018 at 11:01

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
I rated this 3.8 a few years back and wrote this - It's a freaking frosty fruit! So many childhood memories flossing back right now. But a second tasting tonight is less enjoyable. Boozy fruit is the right name. It has a strong aroma of overripe fruit. The taste is slightly cloying, with a surprisingly dry finish that tastes a bit like aspirin. My two tastings are like chalk and cheese.
Tried on 13 Jan 2018 at 04:19