Pfriem Family Brewers
Las Piñas
Pfriem Family Brewers has made a name for itself with a wide variety of beer styles, earning a reputation of hardly ever doing anything wrong. The brewery's barrel-aged series takes its inspiration from, among other things, Belgian-inspired tart ales, from Flanders Red and Flanders Blonde to a range of fruit-added ales that make no secret of their Belgian influences, with names like Kriek, Bosbessen, Druif Rouge, Frambozen, and others, all borrowed from Flemish-Dutch names for their respective fruits. For Pfriem's pineapple fruit ale, though, the influences may be Belgian, but the name is straight from Spanish-speaking Central America.
While there is plenty of Costa Rican pineapple in Las Piñas, don't expect anything like pineapple sweetness. This isn't a piña colada slushie, but a mixed-fermentation sour ale with a lot of Costa Rican pineapple added. There's pineapple in the aroma, but flavor is more subtle, as attenuation has gobbled up most of the sugars and given this a tart, gently pineapple-fruit character. It's a departure from the usual for Pfriem, a brewery that normally tries to source its fruits from within a hundred miles of the brewery, not hard to do with the abundant orchards near Hood River. Instead, they arranged for delivery of 500 Costa Rica-grown pineapples, and set to work extracting the fruit from their pineapple rinds, then selecting a range of spontaneously fermented barrel-aged ales for blending onto the fruit. The resulting beer is then refermented with champagne yeast in the bottle for conditioning.
The brewery recommends fairly rich food to accompany, as quoted from Pfriem's web site: "Duck, goose, and venison. Pan fried chicken wing/ breast in a Las Piñas cream sauce. Mexican Mole sauce based foods. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate-based desserts, cheesecake, panna cotta. Wide range of cheeses - mascarpone, teleme, stracchino, and sharp fresh goat cheese." Tart tropical-fruit beer with magret de canard? Yes please! - By DON SCHEIDT
June 14, 2021 at 11:32PM
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