Prickly Passion
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STORY
Prickly pear and passion fruit mingle together for New Belgium’s return to farmhouse ales. Prickly Passion Saison is truly a beer for Belgian inspiration. The combination of passion fruit and prickly pear juices with the tropical esters of a traditionally earthy Saison yeast create a wonderfully broad and reaching mango-like character. Ostentatiously amber, this Prickly Passion Saison is sure to provoke the palate with a passionate prick, turn that bottle over and take a sip.
BEER FACTS
Birthdate: October, 2011
Body: Light - Medium
ABV: 8.5%
Hops: Target, Liberty
Malts: Pale, C-80
Yeast: French Saison Yeast
Fruits/Spice: Prickly Pear, Passionfruit
Aroma: The yeast dominates its bouquet with big fruit and peppery notes, banana and pineapple undertones with a faint caramel malt backbone.
Mouthfeel: Starts sweet and juicy but finishes dry and warm due to the higher ABV, and because of that fruity sweetness, this otherwise lighter bodied beer will seem much fuller- medium bodied.
Flavor: Almost sticky sweet in the beginning and middle- tons of strawberry and moist tropical melon- but still with that strange addition of banana and fig. Spicy late linger and slight caramel notes.
Visual: Deep glowing amber with the slightest sheen, nice white foam and light lacing.
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