Vibrant Forest Brewery Pale Ale - Chinook

Pale Ale - Chinook

 

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

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.76
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 45 Ticks: 21
A well supplied malty pale ale with vast packages of Chinook hop flown in to offer a gargantuan rotor blast of pithy grapefruit and a mighty force of bitterness on the finish. This beer will leave your mouth blown away!
 

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6.1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Smell of fruit, hops. Muddy amber colour, white head. Aroma of spruce, hops. Bitter. Lively carbon.

Tried on 07 May 2019 at 14:56


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Keg at Lawrence Arms, Portsmouth. Fruity sweet aroma. Light opaque orange. Creamy white head. Thin. Flat. Average carbonation. Abrupt finish. Enjoyable.

Tried on 12 Jan 2019 at 18:54


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Patricks 021117. Golden-orange color with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop. Flavor is fruit, malt, hop, pine, grapefruit, floral, grass. Easy drinkable beer.

Tried on 16 Nov 2017 at 10:08


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Handpull cask at Brood @ Vin Quatre. Golden with a slight reddish hue. Hazy as hell. Herbal and soapy notes accompany the tropical fruit scent. Bittersweet taste, really chewy malts with astringent hop in the finish. It's a nice enough beer even if the balance is a bit off.

Tried from Cask on 27 Oct 2017 at 16:18


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

(Cask at Craft Beer Co Covent Garden, London, 24 April 2017) Golden amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, hoppy nose with notes of grainy malt, citrus, grapefruit and slightly piney hops. Malty, hoppy taste with citrus, dried apricots, orange peel, resin, pine needles and and generous citric/piney bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and refreshing, with a generous hop presence. Nice one

Tried from Cask on 16 May 2017 at 14:34


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Calans, Hebden Bridge. Hazed amber with a small head, it’s hoppy in it taste, with a fruitiness more dominant in its nose.

Tried from Cask on 09 May 2017 at 14:03


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

Cask handpull at Craft Covent Garden. Hazy amber colour lasting white head. Hoppy grapefruit aroma. Good earthy hops on the flavour. They do an intensity of hops no doubt. Some tangerine satsuma. Earthy fruit though. Otherwise it’s a decent pale ale.

Tried from Cask on 23 Apr 2017 at 08:58


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Tried at the Craft Rooms. Lincoln. Slight haze on. His golden beer. Aroma has pineapple, citrus and light pine. Taste light sweet to mid bitter. Medium body.

Tried on 01 Apr 2017 at 09:13


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

On tap at Vibrant Forest, Lymington, Hampshire, Saturday 11th March 2017 Pours gold, hazy gold with a white sticky head. Chinook comes through well, steady bitterness throughout. Soft in the mouth, juicy hoppiness, slight drying at the end. Good. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.5

Tried from Draft on 11 Mar 2017 at 06:31


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Draught at the Holborn whippet, London. A huge hop hit which was nice and very strong grapefruit bitterness which was a but overpowering.

Tried on 09 Feb 2017 at 04:21