I'm a big fan of passionfruit, but it's hard to get the flavor of ripe fruit fram anything other than ripe fruit. Those things sell for about 3 bucks apiece in my area, and with all the seeds they have such a low yield of actual fruit pulp to make it impractical/$$$$ to use in beer/mead. I've tried juices and concentrates, but they're just not the same as fresh fruit from a flavor perspective.
I finally found a local supermarket that carries Goya fruit pulp in the freezer section. I haven't used it yet, but I hear this is the closest you can get to the real thing. Which brings me to my question - has anyone used this (or any other frozen fruit pulp like mango, guava, chirimoya, etc.) as an ingredient for beer or mead? I'm wondering what usage rate to shoot for. Passion fruit is intense stuff, and I have a feeling that my usual 0.5 lb/gallon would be pretty intense for a beer, and maybe just about right for a fruit-forward mead? Any thoughts?