Tipples Beer Review #43 Stone (USA), Beavertown (UK) and Garage Project (NZ) Fruitallica DIPA

This beer has all the hallmarks of the five star beer, it is a collaboration between three great breweries, Stone Brewing from the USA, Beavertown from London and Garage Project from New Zealand, as always with Stone it has great packaging, (the printing onto the bottles does it for me everytime, a great name - Fruitallica Double IPA and check out this description from the brewers themselves:

Glorious-crank-it-to-‘11’-cacophony is what happens when intense tropical fruit gets a flashpot addition of pyrotechnic heat from habanero. The result is a literal world tour, as three globe-trotting breweries collaborated on this immensely thunderous soundstorm of a beer.
Masters of brewing Beavertown (UK) and Garage Project (New Zealand) worked with us in San Diego to brew this double IPA with a power trio of kiwi, yuzu and habanero. Yuzu and habanero, sure, but who knew kiwi fruit could be so metal. Add in a colossal hop character to ride the lightning of the subtle but fiery heat. Hops, fruit, heat…And Juiciness For All.
Call up your mosh mates, crank up the tunes, throw this beer in the fridge and chill ‘em all.

So this is a beer with pretty much everything in it....let see if I’m blown away......

Okay right from the outset this beer looks weird, like super weird, there are bits of something in there, maybe kiwifruit, never seen anything like it. I understand infused fruit into beer, but I’ve never seen people just throw bit of actually fruit into a bottle beer. Sure those fuckhead with ramming lemon into the neck of a Corona in a desperate attempt to make it taste of something, but not in a REAL beer.

a close up of those floaty bits

The smells is fruity, definitely the yuzu and kiwifruit in there, and a touch of breadiness.

The taste is really interesting, it's gentler than I thought a DIPA from stone would be, there is definitely refreshing fruit nature to it rather than a death metal strip the enamel off your teeth hoppiness that the graphics, description and general Stone-ness of this beer would have you believe.

The aftertaste is interesting too, there is an overripe fruity sweetness but then it's replaced with a gentle heat from the habernero, which just lingers like a dorky kid at a punch bowl.

Really fascinating beer, unlike anything I’ve had recently and highly enjoyable.

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floaty bits again but with artistic lighting - lovely