5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

0,33 l can. Pours light yellow with medium, rocky white head. Aroma of guava, tropical fruit, pineapple a bit of apricots. Flavour follows aroma. Taste is medium to heavy sweet with very subdued bitterness. Finish is medium, very fruity, guava and low bitter.

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33c can from Albert Heijn supermarket in Maasmechelen.
F: medium, egg-white, average retention.
C: gold, hazy.
A: guava, mellow pear, mango, sugary.
T: medium malty base, mango, guava, not so sweet as I expected from aroma, bit mineral, dry on the palate, citrus, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, good, enjoyed.

5.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Fruited hazy IPA by BrewDog, can from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick and foamy, snow white, firm and lasting head, hazy apricot-golden robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of sugared melon, canned guava soda (Maaza etc.), honey pomelo, Fanta Dragonfruit, mandarin, fresh dough, ripe pear. Sugary sweet onset, a citrusy edge round a strong fruit concentrate-derived artificial guava flavour with side notes of pear, mango and some vague pineapple but none feeling natural; medium carb, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, doughy-cereally core soaked in this overly sweet guava lemonade effect, remaining soda pop-like and cloyingly sweet till the end, where it meets a slight citrusy effect – but not feeling very ‘hoppy’, at least not in a natural way. Bitterness remains almost indistinguishable while this soapy guava lemonade effect lingers. I would never have imagined the punks from BrewDog creating something as childishly sweet as this when I got to know their output two decades ago – they lost a lot of street cred in the craft beer world since then for becoming too big and ‘commercial’, deliberately aiming at the casual IPA drinker (a fairly new phenomenon in itself of course) with interchangeable APA and IPA variants and the like. But even with that in mind, this is just ridiculous. I will not be very inclined anymore to grab a BrewDog can from a shelf in the future…

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is very tropical with lots of guava. Also some fruity hops, citrus, orange. Flavour is moderate bitter and light sweetish. Medium body. Not bad for a flavored IPA.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from Asda. Hazy yellow-gold with small white head. Very juicy aroma of pineapple hitting the nose first followed by an underlying guava and mango. Taste has a sort of creamy soft tropical presence with guava more dominant but still an element of mixed tropical fruit, a touch zesty bitterness in the finish, light minerals. Smooth body, light zingy carbonation. Slightly overdone on the adjuncts but nonetheless its a good fruity pale ale.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Közepes, tartós hab, narancsba hajlószín. Déligyümölcsös, narancsos, guavás illat. Déligyümölcsös, narancsos, guavás, citrushéjas ízek. Könnyű, közepesen szénsavas, enyhén keserű. Jól csúszó, könnyed kis söröcske.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

S: mangoes - guava (duh) - dough A: very hazy golden body - thick head T: rich malts - juice - icing sugar P: tropically - robust - balanced O: easy-drinking - still bitter - pure new-school 440 mL can - M&S Foods: Bond Street, Kensington, London, England - 24-March-2024 - £3,70 - sampled on the streets of London with my family of five

6.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

330 ml can, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 5.0%. Moderately hazy pale yellow colour, huge white head. Distinct aroma of guava, hints of strawberries. Fizzy mouthfeel, light bodied. Distinct flavour of guava and "perfumed" notes of strawberries, moderate citric hops.