{"id":12764,"date":"2016-01-29T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:03:56","slug":"beer-of-the-week-green-flash-passion-fruit-kicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/01\/29\/beer-of-the-week-green-flash-passion-fruit-kicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer: <\/strong>I saw the name come through the online trademark database\u2014Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker<\/strong>. No way<\/em>, I thought. How could San Diego\u2019s third-largest craft brewery be planning to package a beer that complex? For those who\u2019ve never heard of Passion Fruit Kicker, that name was developed when former Green Flash brewmaster Chuck Silva <\/strong>and director of beer education Dave Adams<\/strong> worked with yours truly to develop a recipe to brew for the Beer to the Rescue<\/strong><\/a> anti-lupus campaign. The most complex of the 30-plus beers the fundraising effort birthed, PFK was a wheat India pale ale (IPA) with Brettanomyces and passion fruit procured from Stone Farms<\/strong><\/a> that was dry-hopped with experimental hops and blended with a wine barrel-aged IPA. While it was delicious and even thought-provoking in its unique character, going national with something like that hardly seemed feasible. Then I read the approved label and discovered the name was applied to a low-alcohol wheat ale brewed with passion fruit concentrate and passion fruit tea. While almost totally different, it\u2019s also quite nice. Based on the base recipe for Alpine Beer Co.<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s wheat ale, Willy (Green Flash Brewing Company<\/strong> <\/a>acquired Green Flash in 2014), it has a subtle creaminess that gives way to restrained fruit tartness in the finish. A mineral quality similar to Sauvignon Blanc wine is also present. This 5.5% alcohol-by-volume session ale has a lot going for it\u2026and is a heck of a lot easier to explain than its namesake.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer: <\/strong>\u201cPassion Fruit Kicker has a pretty unique origin story. It came about when two different ideas from two different sources merged.\u00a0The brewers had been experimenting with teas in casks and single-keg one-off beers.\u00a0Our favorite tea to use was a passion fruit tea (from local company, Tea Gallerie<\/strong><\/a>). It has an amazing aroma and flavor like a ripe passion fruit. At the time we were playing around with that tea in different beers, the idea for a tart, fruity wheat beer emerged.\u00a0So naturally we tried making that beer with the passion fruit tea. It was a perfect match!\u00a0We combined passion fruit concentrate with the tea to make a uniquely pungent, aromatic, tart and refreshing wheat beer.\u00a0It actually smells and tastes like you\u2019re drinking it out of a hollowed-out passion fruit gourd! The background of a very clean, crisp, lightly bittered wheat beer lets the passion fruit shine for a truly great fruit beer experience.\u201d\u2014Kevin Barnes, Lead Brewer, Green Flash Brewing Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer: I saw the name come through the online trademark database\u2014Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker. No way, I thought. How could San Diego\u2019s third-largest craft brewery be planning to package a beer that complex? For those who\u2019ve never heard of Passion Fruit Kicker, that name was developed when former Green Flash brewmaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,369,371,1],"tags":[1353,95,1666,376,1456,442,1602,218,390,1607,884,2421,1457,61,1604,2291,1439,2422,1473,1474,363,2420,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-12764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beer-news","7":"category-beer-styles","8":"category-brewing-ingredients","9":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","10":"tag-sdbeer","11":"tag-alpine","12":"tag-alpine-beer","13":"tag-beer","14":"tag-beer-to-the-rescue","15":"tag-brandon-hernandez","16":"tag-brettanomyces","17":"tag-chuck-silva","18":"tag-craft-beer","19":"tag-dave-adams","20":"tag-green-flash","21":"tag-kevin-barnes","22":"tag-lupus","23":"tag-mira-mesa","24":"tag-passion-fruit","25":"tag-passion-fruit-kicker","26":"tag-san-diego","27":"tag-sauvignon-blanc","28":"tag-stone-brewery","29":"tag-stone-brewing","30":"tag-stone-farms","31":"tag-tea-gallerie","32":"tag-west-coaster","33":"entry","34":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-3jS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}