CS7 Sweaty Passion

[Haish]

NZPA

 

Golden Promise 93%

Pale Crystal 4%

Caramalt 3%

 

Southern Cross 10 IBU @ 60

Motueka, Nelson Sauvin and Southern Cross 25 IBU @ 15

Motueka, Nelson Sauvin and Southern Cross 3.5g/L @ 0

 

OG. 1.056

FG. 1.014

5.5%, 35 IBU

 

This beer has a song (that's what happens when you google sweaty passion, its more wholesome than some of the videos I found ;)

 

Enjoy!

[Andrew]

I'm just wondering why you would Google Sweaty Passion?? Maybe thats best kept to yourself and we'll just enjoy the beer eh? ;)

[Haish]

It was the name for my beer, why wouldn't I google it? It might become clearer when you try the beer...

[Matt]

I have been enjoying a lot of sweaty passion lately, I cant get enough. Had some friends over last week and there was a veritable orgy of sweaty passion, until the keg blew. By that stage the party was really rocking so we moved onto the cleveland steamers, good times.

[Andrew]

Sweaty Passion, Cleveland Steamers....I,m sorry I missed it!!

 

[Andrew]

After all the talk of Sweaty Passion I had to give this a go first.

Had a bit of chill haze because I left it in the fridge for a couple of day. Had a really nice peachy/passionfruit aroma and I got a little bit of a biscuty undertone from the malt as well. It was a nice compliment to the aroma in mind. Has a kind of sharp bitterness which wasn't really to my liking. It lingered around for a quite a while and tastes more than 35 IBU. Maybe coming from the hop combo but I could taste the Moteka on the palate where as the Nelson Sav was more on aroma. Well made beer with no off-notes but just a little too lingering in the bitterness area for me.

[Haish]

Cheers for your feedback, much appreciated! There's definitely a bit of haze there, I'd like to think its a combo of hop resins and chill haze ;)

 

I'd hazard a guess that the 35 IBU is an underestimate, but that's what promash spits out. For my taste the balance is pretty much spot on, I didnt' get any lingering bitterness from the keg. Unfortunately I have finished my 2 kegs of this beer now and I don't have a reference bottle to go back to. When I kegged it the passionfruit was almost overwhelming!

[Matt Smith]

Shared this one with my wife, she doesn't usually like hoppy beers but got through this one reasonably quick and she says: "mmm fruity".

Poured a slightly hazy pale copper colour. Wonderful tropical fruit flavor/aroma and a crisp hop bitterness which I really enjoyed, just enough malt to support without being too thin. Is this US05 ? I detected that same aroma in the background that I get off US05 beers which I picked up from barry's beer aswell, I wish I could find the words to describe it.

 

Reminded me of alot of Hopwired...a younger brother perhaps. Very nice, thanks Haish !

[Haish]

S05 indeed, well spotted. Cheers for the feedback!

[vdog]

Pours a slightly hazy gold, with a tight head that subsides reasonably quickly. Aroma is all luscious tropical fruit with some citrus in behind. On the palate it's awesome, a great fruity hop smack with caramelly malt to back it up and a really firm bitterness that balances the whole thing nicely. 

 

Well brewed Haish, I really enjoyed this and would very easily have dealt to several more bottles if I had them. Cheers!

[Stu H]

Just got home after working 12 hours on a fusion jazz gig, and (naturally) I'm in a shit mood.

 

Anyways I need a beer! 

 

Appearance: Deep golden, hazy. Looks like my kind of pale ale! Head didn't last long but I don't really care about that stuff.

 

Aroma: That's NZ hop fruity goodness. I thought 100% Sauvin, turns out not!. I'm excited, and want to drink it!

 

Flavour: Perfect bitterness for my money, some sweet malt in there, did you mash a little higher or that the caramalt etc coming through? Shit I love golden promise though huh?

 

Mouthfeel: Firm carbonation, for my money it might actually be nicer slightly under-carbed, but then I've been drinking heaps of warm flat Crouchers (delicious!) recently.

 

All in all, this is the sort of thing I love to spend all night drinking, I wish I had another (6!). Thanks bro

[Stu H]

mood lifted :)

[Stu McKinlay]

A classic NZ pale ale. Aggressive bitterness, tropical/temperate fruit, big balancing caramel malt character, very drinkable. I got a bit of diacetyl in there, which would probably see it miss out on any "new world" or american-style medals in competition, but it wasn't enough to stop me enjoying my evening of sweaty passion. It just made it feel like an English/NZ pale ale.

Nice drop, great label...

Slainte mhath!