Aotearoa Mata Feijoa

Brewed by Aotearoa Breweries
Style: Fruit Beer
Kawerau, New Zealand

Smells like a margarita, pours yellow green and has a sour flavour and that is it. Not a winner, not a winner at all.

feijoa all the way, aroma and flavor. bit of malt background but quite thin and dry, taart from the fruit. interesting.

Couldn’t really get my around this one. The ’fruit’ is quite tart and citrus like but there is a clear malt underlay’ something almost approaching a Czech pilsner. Didn’t really hang together as I thought the tartness just poked out to much.

Light golden, rocky head quickly dissipates. Aromas are sour, that of feijoa and citrus hops. Sweet malt. Slight metallic scent :(... Very dry and sour, interesting beer. Quite like a champagne style wine. No real aftertaste, finishes clean. Odd, but a nice fruit beer.

330ml bottle - clear straw yellow with a cider like appearance. Dry armpits waft from the feijoa fruit with a touch of almost menthol cigarettes feel about it. Palate is very thin and refreshing - crisp with the fruit character lingering at the finish. To the uninitiated it would almost be a spritzer or cider than beer but interesting none the less.

You don’t see feijoas in Canada much, but I happen to have tried them prior to coming to New Zealand. I’ve never had a feijoa fruit beer though! This one pours exactly as a ginger ale soda, clear soft golden with a fizzy head that is gone within 10s. Wow this smells like feijoa rind all the way! For someone unfamiliar, it is a liitle like a combo of crushed nettles, unripened fieldberries, and cat pee all in one. Flavour also is very much of unsweetened (or in fact, unripened) feijoa. There is no easy comparison for someone unfamiliar with the fruit, but it is quite tart (bordering sour), and reminiscent of a geuze lambic. I also find that it brings to mind cloudberries that are sometimes used in Scandanavian cuisine. Rather thin mouthfeel, and a very short dry finish. Very interesting indeed!

Pours yellow with white head. Aroma is mainly Fejioa, with a bit of malt there. Taste is quite bitter, like a geuze. Of course the flavour is mainly fejioa fruit, has a good malt base to it. Most interesting beer Mata makes.

Pale piss yeloow colour with hugh fluffy white head. Big feijoa aroma. even bigger feijoa flavours. Thin body and short mouthfeel. I HATE FEIJOAS!!!!