Fijoa?

[sockmerchant]

Our Fijoa trees are covered in wee fruit.  We will be inundated when they start dropping.

 

Has anyone here used them in a brew with success?  Thinking of doing a Saison with em, or perhaps a wheat beer.  Also toying with the idea of doing a wheat heavy Belgian Blond with perhaps a smaller amount of fijoa?

 

Obviously I have some time left to plan.

 

Thoughts?  

[Paul Fraser]

I did a feijoa wheat last year. I thawed about 2kg of feijoa pulp and mashed it into a gloop. I added a crushed Camden tablet to kill any bugs and left for 24hrs. I filled the fermenter up to the 2L mark and added beer up to the 18.5L mark. It was good except the feijoa was a bit overwhelming. I would half the amount next time. It wasn't a hoppy beer I did but if it was I don't think you'd notice them over the fruit.

[Paul Cannell]

Hmmmmm, I'm leaning towards a blond ale with maybe 750g of feijoa.

[Brendan Knowles]

Did you try the feijoa blonde in the end?  Keen to hear how it turned out.