¡Guava Libre!
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Funky Buddha BreweryFruit Beer Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.03
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This sensory getaway transports you to a corner bodega with our friends at Funky Buddha in South Florida to recreate the flavors you’d find in a Cuban guava pastry. Championing the big, bold flavors that both of our breweries are known for, we brewed an imperial cream ale, adding lactose and vanilla to impart sweet, custard-like ribbons, and guava for filling its conceptual authenticity. It’s a collaboration that’s equal parts inspiration and admiration.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Beer Temple. Cloudy golden yellow colour. White-ish head, short retention. Aroma's: tropical fruit, lactose. Retronasal: tropical fruit, sweetish, sour fruit, lactose. Flavour is light moderate sweet with a hint of bitter and lactose. Medium bodied. Finishes with some fruit, light bitter.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2018
at 22:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at BeerGeek Bar. Hazy, gold colored. AROMA- strongly tropical fruit, guava. FLAVOR- neutral to dry, tropical fruit, guava pulp. Fuller to full bodied.
Good, but one dimensional.
Good, but one dimensional.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2018
at 21:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg @ Sori Taproom. Poured peach color, almost no head. Fruit nectar, quite smooth, guava and mango. Full bodied, warming finish. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2018
at 13:57
6/10
Tried
on 16 Oct 2018
at 17:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Getreidiger, dumpf fruchtiger Beginn. Vanille, Guave, weiche Herbe. Schwer, intensiv, geringe Süße. Strange. 10/11/9/10/9/10
Tried
on 13 Aug 2018
at 11:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy golden pale orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity spicy sour guava aroma. Fruity sour guava flavor. Has a fruity sour guava finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2018
at 16:50
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle shared by Adam or Chris on 12/9/17.
Mostly clear, apricot-marmalade color with beige and bronze hues. Off-white head atop is initially large and falls to cover slowly.
Nicely soft, vanilla and guava are surprisingly well-matched in the nose. It's highly aromatic and importantly, both smell authentic/real. Nothing cheap or sugary. Malts behind it add honey, biscuit, graham cracker and easily balance. Doesn't have that awful, milky, musty character that some lactose beers have. No alcohol noted, either.
In the mouth it's a perfect vanilla ice cream with guava drizzle. Lightly sweet, though with good attenuation on the malt and not too intensely lactose-driven. One of the best vanilla and lactose treatments I've had, honestly. Ultra soft, creamy, pillowy with fine carbonation and no alcohol or flaw. Guava character adds light acidity, brightness and lingering tropical fruit flavor.
Mostly clear, apricot-marmalade color with beige and bronze hues. Off-white head atop is initially large and falls to cover slowly.
Nicely soft, vanilla and guava are surprisingly well-matched in the nose. It's highly aromatic and importantly, both smell authentic/real. Nothing cheap or sugary. Malts behind it add honey, biscuit, graham cracker and easily balance. Doesn't have that awful, milky, musty character that some lactose beers have. No alcohol noted, either.
In the mouth it's a perfect vanilla ice cream with guava drizzle. Lightly sweet, though with good attenuation on the malt and not too intensely lactose-driven. One of the best vanilla and lactose treatments I've had, honestly. Ultra soft, creamy, pillowy with fine carbonation and no alcohol or flaw. Guava character adds light acidity, brightness and lingering tropical fruit flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2018
at 20:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at tasting. Aroma of creamy vanilla, guave, custard and sugar. Taste has creamy vanilla, creamy custard, honey, sugar and guave. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2018
at 16:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled from bottle at Gekke Geit bottleshare. Murky golden with white head. Massive fruity and pulpy and juicy guave. Big sweet and light bitter. Over medium body and soft carbonation. This is crazy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2018
at 17:02