Kaleidoscope
Vibrant Forest Brewery in Hardley, Hampshire, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
7.05
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Intense greens of fresh hops bursting with fruitiness filled his senses. Rich yellows and golds of malted barley adding subtle sweet tones to the vibrant coloured show. The setting sun started to turn red and, as its light subsided, he was filled with a mellow bitterness and the blues of wanting more.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft: Poured a hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is juicy fruits, hops. Taste is juicy fruity, some hops bitter, lingers around the palate.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2020
at 17:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Haandgemeng. A golden-orange beer, unclear, with an off-white head. Nice lacing. The aroma is piney and citrusy, grapefruit and a touch of orange, with pale malt hints in the far back. It's full-bodied, quite dry and smooth on the palate, and pleasantly carbonated. A nice bitterness lasts forever, in the good company of piney hops and some citrus, mostly grapefruit. Not the most complex IPA I've had, by far, but who needs complexity when it's as good as this one. 170127
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2020
at 16:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, 18 Oct 2019) Hazy golden colour amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with orange peel, mandarin and pink grapefruit. Fruity, hoppy taste with notes of pink grapefruit, orange peel, apricots, resin, caramel and a generous citric/resiny bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Sharp but fresh bitterness with a solid hop presence. Very nice.
Tried
on 11 Apr 2020
at 18:47
6/10
Nie wiem, jakies takie puste... woda lekko owocowa. Nisko wysycona. Slodkawa. Rozczarowanie
Tried
from Draft
at
Kufle i Kapsle - Nowogrodzka
on 20 Dec 2019
at 14:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught Fully hazy ochre-orange beer with a small fluffy off-white head. Straw, dry hopbales, Hessian sacks, dried orangepeel. Bitterish, light fruity flavour, citruspeel, grapefruit. Pretty slick, feels better bodied than it probably is. Spritzy carbonation. Quite nice IPA.
Tried
from Draft
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 01 Dec 2019
at 10:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can Orange color. Orange and grass in the oily hoparoma. Malty yet dry, oily grassy flavor, Ripe citrusfruit. Earthy notes.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2019
at 08:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Craft Beer Co - Clerkenwell, 82 Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, Greater London, England EC1N 7TR.[ As Vibrant Forest Kaleidoscope ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, cookie, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, fruity hops, butterscotch - marmalade hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, butterry hops - marmalade hops, sweet malt, pale malt, riped fruit, dried fruit, hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170814] 6-3-6-3-12
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2019
at 15:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Vibrant Forest Kaleidoscope (by Vibrant Forest Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
7/II/19 - 44cl can from Fresh Fields Market (Croydon, London), shared @ home, BB: 19/V/19 - (2019-213)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of onions, dank fresh hops, sweet malts, some caramel, a bit of cabbage and cooked veggies but only slightly, some tropical fruits, a tad of smelly blue cheese. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, pretty dry, some citrus, hoppy, bitter, grapefruit, kumquats, bit spicy, peppery notes. Aftertaste: bitter, bit grassy, orange peel, fruity touch, some tropical fruits, dry finish.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
7/II/19 - 44cl can from Fresh Fields Market (Croydon, London), shared @ home, BB: 19/V/19 - (2019-213)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of onions, dank fresh hops, sweet malts, some caramel, a bit of cabbage and cooked veggies but only slightly, some tropical fruits, a tad of smelly blue cheese. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, pretty dry, some citrus, hoppy, bitter, grapefruit, kumquats, bit spicy, peppery notes. Aftertaste: bitter, bit grassy, orange peel, fruity touch, some tropical fruits, dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Feb 2019
at 21:09
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ De Molen Brouwcafé during pre Borefts 2018 brewers dinner. Hazy golden color. White head with reasonable retention. Aroma's: leafy hops, grassy, hay. Retronasal: citrus, sourish, bitter, hoppy acidic. Flavor is bitter, fruity, light swet. Light bodied. Bitter finish, but not puckering.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2018
at 20:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Zagreb Beer Week 2017. Hazy dark golden, small off-white head. Heavily hoppy, fruity with some malts in the back. Light to moderate bitterness, a bit perfumed. Medium body, moderate carbonation, moderate finish. Not spectacular.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2018
at 20:13