Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Where's the passion?


While in Madeira last week I tried the in-house IPA from our hotel. It was called "Passion Fruit IPA", now, usually, I worry that when beers include actual fruit as adjuncts they tend to be a bit on the gimmicky side, i.e. the beer's not up to much so the brewer adds fruit to "spice" it up a bit. I was wrong on that score with this one, it had no fruit adjuncts at all, the passion fruit flavour was coming entirely from the generous dose of Australian Galaxy hops, which do lean toward tropical fruit flavours when used on the cold side. A decent local beer, obviously made by craft enthusiasts!

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