Trial & Ale Brewing Pitahaya

Pitahaya

 

Trial & Ale Brewing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
6.89
ABV: 6.4% IBU: 5 Ticks: 8
Looks can be deceiving, and our new blend is the perfect example. The Dragonfruit is one of nature’s most beautiful edible offerings. Pink and green with pineapple like folds and turns, it protects the purple-red or stark white interior
flesh of this delicate fruit. The flavour contained within could best be described as timid, but still bold. In our pale sour base, we needed to make sure that these subtle fruit flavours came through. In order to do so, we needed to increase our fruiting rate with this particular fruit. One might think that means a little more
than normal. Not at all. We added so much Dragonfruit to this blend that we needed two tanks to fruit it. Like 50% more fruit than our highest fruited blend. This release holds the Trial & Ale record for “most fruit ever” and we could not be happier with the results. A winelike profile, with almost no tannin extraction left
us very pleased. A flirtatious Brettanomyces linger brings the taste home. This blend benefits from a serving temp slightly lower than cellar temps. We look forward to how this continues to develop over time.

Hops: A Minuscule Addition of German Hallertau
Malts: Pilsner, Wheat, Oats
Yeast: A Melange of Several Different House Primary Strains, Several Select Brettanomyces Strains, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus brevis, Additional House Cultures, Saccharomyces bayanus for bottle conditioning
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

7-3-7-3-14 Bottle. Pours dark orange, with a creamy, short lived head. Aroma is slightly tart fruity notes of currants, strawberries and musty fruit peel, as well as funky stone fruits, , floral brett and wooden notes Medium body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is lactic fruity notes with rhubarb, currants and funky fruits, as well as bretty farmhouse and wooden barrels. Tart, dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2023 at 10:48


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Vinmonopolet, Lillehammer. Clear red with a small white head. Aroma is dry, malty, bretty, wood and dragonfruit. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. Better than expected. 120223

Tried from Bottle on 12 Feb 2023 at 17:02


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Trial & Ale Pitahaya - Nice opaque pinkish red with no head. Light fruity and sweet notes. Nice sour and some fruity notes.

Tried on 25 Jan 2022 at 17:24


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Power tasting at Ferris', corked bottle
Hazy to cloudy red colour, the head disappears quickly. Tropical fruits aroma, yoghurt, strong acidity. Sharp flavour, the acidity is very strong, there is some generic fruit, and not much complexity, traces of acetic acid too.
Mediocre.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2022 at 07:29


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

750ml (thx, !) @ Farees'. Appearance: hazy purple with a white head. Aroma: brett and dragon fruits. Taste: along the same lines, but it's pretty muted and straightforward. Overall: ok.

Tried on 15 Jan 2022 at 05:56


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from 750mL bottle. Cloudy pink-ish orange with tiny white head. Underlying dragonfruit, brett, tartness, okay.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2022 at 05:54


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

Pinkish hazy. There's a solid dragonfruit note here, and definitely some brett. A bit fizzy and light, with lots of dragonfruit, and a fair bit of tartness. Seems like a straightforward take on fruit brett. Needs a bit more complexity.

Tried on 15 Jan 2022 at 05:52


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

750mL bottle, pours a mostly cloudy amber red, no head. Aroma brings out the dragonfruit upfront, which is fairly restrained, along with buggy bretty wild character. Flavour is certainly big on the fruit, with a rather one-dimensional dragonfruit character. Not all that wild or buggy. Low residual sweetness, with only slightly more tartness. Nothing deep or complex here, but it's pleasant, clean, and very easy to drink. Pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2022 at 05:49