Carnival Cruise Line tapped the first keg of a new seasonal
brew called Miami Guava Wheat, to be served at the RedFrog Pub & Brewery
onboard the Carnival Vista.
Vista brewmaster Colin Presby said the flavor was inspired
by Miami's guava pastries, a Cuban-American favorite. "The guava flavor
works really nicely in a wheat beer," Presby said.
The beer is the first fruit-flavored beer Carnival has
tried, and its third seasonal brew.
Hotel director Pierre Camilleri used a rubber mallet to
pound the tap into the first barrel, a 10.8-gallon size called a firkin, at a
shipboard celebration before the Vista's Saturday departure on its current
cruise.