Juicy Fruit Pale Ale
Hop Stuff Brewery in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Collab with: North Brewing CoFruit Beer Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.32
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With the help of their friends, passionfruit and guava, Hop Stuff Brewery and North Brew Co co-parented this tangy love child.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can. Poured a hazy golden straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is grainy malt, light yeasty, grapefruit citrus. The flavour is light sour with a light, watery, crisp, fresh, tart citrus palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation. Nice but the grapefruit was overpowering.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2019
at 18:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Tesco Inverurie. It pours cloudy bright orange with a small, foamy white head. The aroma is sweet, juicy, tropical fruit vibes, passion fruit, mango, peach, guava and fruity smoothie. The taste is crisp, dry, just a touch tart, loads of tropical fruits, passion fruit, peach, guava, tequila sunrise, zingy, bit of sherbet, orange creamsicle and a touch of minerality. Finish is dry and fruity. Lighter end of medium body and fine, spritzy carbonation. Bright, fruity and moreish. Given how bimodal the reviews, surely there has been significant batch variation? I personally rather like it. Doesn't feel artificial for sure.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2019
at 16:36
4.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
[440ml can from Tesco, Warfield.] A putrid pond water coloured pour with a fast fading white head and heavy carbonation; passionfruit aroma; and a rather sharp and sour fruity taste. Not my kind of thing at all.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2019
at 22:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at home from Tesco. Ahazed golden yellow coloured pour with a fading white froth. Aroma is weird raw grains, tangy pithy citrus, slightly farty, grapefruit rind. straw. Flavour is composed of raw wheat, damp hay, tangy pithy citrus, grapefruit , straw, edging onto sour. Palate is tangy, spritzy sour, dirty grainy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2019
at 23:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Pours misty gold, good white topping. Aroma has some assorted exotic juice, light sour. There is a certain juiciness to its standard pale character, light exotics, soft sour, but just something amiss, artificial perhaps. Ok, but not worth a re-visit.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2018
at 18:03
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
440ml Can - Pours a cloudy dull yellow orange colour with a mostly lasting average sized tight foamy white head. Aroma is tropical fruit, the passionfruit dominates but with some other sweet fruit present. A tart fruit taste, passionfruit and sour apple flavours; quite salty and with a dry sourness in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2018
at 15:06
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can from Tesco. Hazy golden body with a thin white head that fades. Steady carbonation. No lacing. Aroma of grapefruit, rose petals and lemonade. Flavour of passionfruit and lime sherbet with a sour finish. Thin body with a watery texture. Soft fizz. A strange beer, not at all what I was expecting, but not quite as bad as previous reviews suggest.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Nov 2018
at 20:29
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can from Tesco. Nose is yeasty, mineral, troubling hints of sulphur, straw, guava. Taste is green apples, sour, wheat, lemon, grapefruit, salt, slightly gose like. Thin mouthfeel. Very surprised when it was sour out of the can, certainly not what was expected from the packaging which I took to be an American Pale. In taste it's far more gose like - feels very off style. It's pretty poor and the sulphur notes are worrying.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2018
at 22:15