Saigon

Vibrant Forest Brewery in Hardley, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

IPA Regular

Score

6.76

ABV: 7.1%

IBU: 70

Ticks: 7

This is our monument to Chinook, our way of declaring to the world our respect for this giant hop. Where others greyed, Chinook continued to grow and took the spotlight of 2016. We've taken our Pale recipe and amped it significantly to render a beer bursting with juicy grapefruit and mandarin that ends in a mighty blast of bitterness. This is everything we love about Chinook. This is Saigon.

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5.9

VastActiv (16457) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Colour is murky light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, pine, hops and malts. Musty and boring

Tried from Draft on 03 Aug 2018 at 19:32

6.9

mjs (12070) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

(Keg at Panema Kallio, 20180719) The beer poured deep amber and cloudy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had pine, fruitiness and caramel. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were pine, caramel, fruitiness, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty, hoppy and bitter. A clean hoppy pale ale with strong caramel notes.

Tried on 19 Jul 2018 at 19:36

7.1

Stuu (34178) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home. Pours orange, nose is resinous pine, grapefruit, herbal, taste is sticky toffee, pine, juicy, little to herbal. --- Beer merged from original tick of Saigon (Chinook IPA) on 04 Oct 2017 at 11:15 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2017 at 10:27

6.9

Saintmatty (11341) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml Bottle - A rich amber/light copper in colour. Pine, grapefruit and hop resins in the aroma. Fruity taste with pine, marmalade and grapefruit.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2017 at 18:50

6.5

Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap at Craft Covent Garden. Cloudy amber colour lasting beige head. Looks way over carbonated. Some toffee some hop some pink grapefruit i was expecting more. Sweetish prickly keg carbonation yes its ok hides abv well but a bit too much toffee hides the hop

Tried from Draft on 23 Apr 2017 at 08:03

madmitch76 (40782) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6th March 2017
Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light and fairly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, just a modicum of sweetness. Spicy Chinook, bitterish too. Orange peel and marmalade. A little fresh orange and orange pith. Bitter semi dry finish. Nicely hoppy but it could of had more body and crispness.

Tried on 18 Mar 2017 at 11:21

7.2

Fin (18516) reviewed Saigon from Vibrant Forest Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Picked up at Vibrant Forest, Lymington, Hampshire, Saturday 11th March consumed at home whilst making Kale and Carrot soup Sunday 12th March 2017 Pours murky gold with a white head. Juicy with lots of citrus action. Layers and layers of marmalade with grapefruit and orange in particular. Very enjoyable beer with a good bittersweet balance. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.6

Tried on 12 Mar 2017 at 11:02