First Steps on a Sour Planet - Passion Fruit
Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2017. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour passion fruit aroma. Fruity sour tart passion fruit flavor. Has a fruity sour tart passion fruit finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Five Boro Craft Beer Fest: pours hazy gold with white head. Aroma is passionfruit. Taste is passionfruit, sour. Some metallic aftertaste. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF’17, day one, 08/08/17. Hazed golden with an off white cap. Nose is prickly berry fruits, straw, passionfruit, sharp citric peel, grains. Taste comprises damp straw, tarte green berry, passionfruit sours, lemon rind, hop splash, light acidic rip. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid Linner especially being on cask.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
8th August 2017
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Cloudy gold beer, small white head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Tangy passion fruit becoming mildly sour. Light dry finish. Simple stuff but nicely fruity and no obvious yogurt!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draught at the brewery, 6/29/17.
Moderately hazy, passion fruit juice-tinted, deep copper-golden with a beige-flecked, off-white head showing moderate retention.
The already juicy, brilliantly bright and wonderfully-balanced base beer is here augmented by the passion fruit which certainly adds complexity and thankfully isn’t overdone (and comes off very authentic and fresh). Tons of minerality and a hugely expressive of both yeast and lactic acid with great integration of both (and the fruit, as well). Snappy, bright acids dot the finish with a bit of pepper and grainy, fresh, raw wheat. No alcohol or flaw.
Incredibly juicy in the mouth with big lemon, passion fruit, yogurt and nectarine flavors and a tight, spritzy carbonation on top of a soft, malty, wheat-heavy texture. Great attenuation and fantastic integration of fruit and lactic character. The passion fruit definitely intensifies this and, in my opinion, is wholly unnecessary, somewhat overloading the palate. But that may just be because I love the base beer so much. Gentle malt sweetness and both fruit and lactic acidity balance each other nicely and the beer has a crisp, tart, juicy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at the GBBF 2017. Day 1. 08/08/2017. A translucent golden yellow coloured pour with no head. Aroma is, big tangy passion fruit, Little funk, tangy five alive.. Flavour is composed of of tart, sharp citrus zest, lemon and passion fruit.. Palate is tart and tangy, highish carbonation. Lovely tart passion fruit pithy lemon.
