Bottle shared at the November THT at deanso’s place. Hazy orange with a thin white head. Notes of rosemary, coriander, spices, yeast, lemon and lime. Medium body and carbonation and a bitter-sweet and spicy finish.

Sampled from bottle at "This is not really deanso’s last THT"-tasting. Hazy dark golden with white head. Lime peel, light herbal, sweet malts. Candy coating sweetness, overpowering bitter. Under medium body, watery, low carbonation. Bitter finish.

I have used ’granadilla’ (the yellow sweet-and-sour passion fruit species) regulary as a metaphor to describe aroma and taste of - particularly New England substyle - IPAs but this is the real thing: this Scottish IPA is effectively flavored with granadilla, not so far-fetched considering the similarities in flavor between certain New World hops and passion fruit, and considering other breweries have experienced with citrus (such as grapefruit) in IPA according to the same principle. Tasted this one from tap at Billie’s Bierkafétaria in Antwerp. Very thick but regular, dense, tightly lacing, snow white head over an equally cloudy peach blonde beer with somewhat ochre-like hue. Aroma exhales fruitiness in a very strong way, with hints of not just ordinary (maracujá) passion fruit and more sourish granadilla, but also green kiwi, mango, pitaya, lime and tamarillo to even tomato, next to biscuit, pine (a bit out of place here), dried yellow grapefruit peel, (fruit) yoghurt, sourdough and dried flowers. Utterly fruity onset, passion fruit to the extreme - the actual granadilla strongly resonating with the developing New World hop character, some lime-like sourness and mango-like sweetness, very soft carbo with smooth but ’fluffy’ mouthfeel, biscuity basis underneath, long aromatic finish with again a ton of passion fruit, even providing a certain strawberry-like sweetness, clashing a bit with the grapefruity, bittering character of the hops. Weird concoction: I have nothing against cloudy fruit IPAs, I even find them a great way of further exploring the potential of both IPA and fruit beer, but this one puzzled me a bit, something doesn’t seem right. It is as if the actual sweet and sour character of the granadilla (juice, I guess) contrasts too much with the bitterness of the Summit and even the piney and grapefruity aroma of the Chinook. Very interesting beer for sure, but I don’t think I’d be able to enjoy more than one of this. As for style: West Coast IPA only in its hop varieties, which I would tend to associate indeed with classic West Coast IPAs, but the addition of granadilla, the extreme fruitiness resulting from it and the cloudy appearance link it to the younger New England IPA substyle - a kind of hybrid of both sides of the States, it seems. Not sure if this is such a good idea, I think this beer would have worked much better with softer and much more aroma-forward hoppiness and more delicately fruity, ’tropical’ varieties (Galaxy, perhaps, and / or Mosaic) to accentuate the granadilla, rather than ’attacking’ it with more classically pine- and grapefruit-oriented hops.

Sampled from bottle at "This is not really deanso’s last THT"-tasting. Hazy dark golden with white head. Lime peel, light herbal, sweet malts. Candy coating sweetness, overpowering bitter. Under medium body, watery, low carbonation. Bitter finish.