Cigar City Pilot Series Passionfruit and Dragonfruit Berliner Weisse

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Berliner Weisse
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Bowl

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On-tap at 2nd Hunahpu’s Release. A - Pours a beautiful pinkish/red color, white head which quickly vanishes leaving only a few bubbles here and there. Looks like pink panty dropper, which it basically is, if you’re into 300lb beer-drinking dudes getting naked. Awesome. S - Huge fruity tart bomb. It’s really hard to type down how good the nose on this one was. Nice level of tartness, sweet tropical fruits...doesn’t need more then that. The fresh fruits and natural notes are what makes it awesome. Doesn’t smell "fake" like many other fruit-inspired beers I’ve ticked. T - Again, huge exotic fruits, sweet smoothie-esk fruit sweetness, nice level of tart/sour that works perfectly together. The natural freshness of this beer is what makes it special. It’s like I went and picked the fruits out that morning and created this beer. Amazing. M - Light, crisp and refreshing, light carbonation, dry finish. D - Easily one of the main hits at the release! Not only was this beer awesome, it was brewed by someone I consider to be a good friend, a very talented one, at that. JW, please remake and send some to Chicago, f’n awesome. Proud to tick this one!

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2012 Draft with Linh at Peg’s during the Berliner Bash 2012. Pours a super glowing pinkish purple body with nice pink lacing and carbonation. Aroma of delicious ripe pineapple, passionfruit, mango, and other citrus fruits. Mouthfeel is perfect - delicate but still puckering, tart and sweet with notes of sour raspberries, tart cranberries, mango, pineapple, melon, passionfruit, strawberry, blueberries. Legendary.

On tap at the Berliner Bash. Pours a somewhat-hazy bright deep violet with a bit of a reddish hue to it. Short-lived white head and a collar throughout. The nose brings an amazing amount of fruit. The dragon fruit comes out on top with some of the passion fruit more underneath. I preferred the extra passion fruit character in the Miami Madness, but that doesn’t mean that this wasn’t ridiculously good. The fruit character in the flavor is over the top, offering its own acidity and tropical character, plus just a touch of earthiness. Good sourness. Heavy for a berliner, bordering on something you’d expect from a wild ale. Body is light-medium with good carbonation. Fruit presence is amazing and has the acidity to back it up. Fantastic brew. Great job, Johnathan!

Draft at Peg’s. Three times! Bright murky purplish pink color, giant pink head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of. Eutiful ripe passionfruit, pineapple, lemon. Taste is softly sour fruit, raspberry, blueberry. Amazing.

11/25/11. surreal color... cotton candy technicolor nightmare. sludgy thick coating on the glass... aroma and flavors of sauerkraut, umami, rotted grain and a huge dose of passionfruit. odd, tart and neat-o. drinks heavy given low alcohol. 7.5/5/7/4/16

On tap at Hunahpu’s 2012. Lucky to be able to get just a small sample. First, the color....bright purplish-pink. Like no beer I have ever seen. Definitely a must try based on color alone. Of course, the taste was the perfect match. Tart and sour fruit with just a small hint of sweetness. The fruit flavors didn’t overwhelm, but they did hang around the mouth for a bit. Truly a Willy Wonka beer. Excellent!

CCB Passionfruit Dragonfruit berliner had on tap at hunahpus day 2012... most alluring appearance from a beer that i’ve ever seen. glowing vibrant pink lavendar just like from the skin of a dragonfruit and topped with a thin creamy head... the fruit essence in the aroma is both enticing and genuine hitting on all cylinders from a juicy tropical fruit essence...ditto for flavors. fruity, sour, quaffable, wonderful 9/5/8/4/18

It was hot on hunahpu day and this did the trick. The appearance was amazing. The taste was tart, sour, slightly salty, but most of all, refreshing. Thin palate that left the sourness on the tongue. Awesome brew.

On draft at Hunahpu day - Hot damn this is probably my favorite beer ever. A hot pink/fuschia shot to your glass. I have never seen anything like this before almost like it was from another planet. Amazing tropical fruit notes dance across your nose with a good whallop of tartness in there as well. The carbonation is perfect the body is medium, taste is of the mostexotic fruits mixed together in a chalice from which you shall drink. Simply stunning, I need more of this, and I need it like now - right now.

So lucky to have tried this one!!! The color alone is worth it!!! Super bold red/fuscia. I can’t get over it! Super tart with awesome balance between the passion fruit and dragon fruit... Light citrus notes, possibly from the tartness. God, I’m such a fan!! I can’t get over this one. Body is smooth, with medium effervescence. There’s a reason this is rated so highly!