Voodoo Ranger 8 Hop Pale Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Brilliantly balanced for easy drinking, this pale ale is packed with citrus and tropical fruit flavors from eight different hop varieties.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Poured into a becher pint glass the appearance was glossy transparent yellow color with a thin white foamy head that dissipated at decent pace. Messy foamy lace sticks well.
The aroma blended subtle sweet crisp onion dankiness flowing over some pinenuts and a delicate malt backbone.
The flavor seemed to balance between the sweet onion dankiness to the pinenut sweetness. Some underlying bitterness. Hoppy dank onion sweet to bitter aftertaste, semi-sticky. Wet onion danky sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium with a little bit of a hop burn going down the throat. Has some sessionable quality about it disregarding some of that hop burn, but carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, aroma and flavor felt spot on, but some of that hop burn needs to be controlled. Maybe again.
The aroma blended subtle sweet crisp onion dankiness flowing over some pinenuts and a delicate malt backbone.
The flavor seemed to balance between the sweet onion dankiness to the pinenut sweetness. Some underlying bitterness. Hoppy dank onion sweet to bitter aftertaste, semi-sticky. Wet onion danky sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium with a little bit of a hop burn going down the throat. Has some sessionable quality about it disregarding some of that hop burn, but carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, aroma and flavor felt spot on, but some of that hop burn needs to be controlled. Maybe again.
Tried
on 29 Mar 2017
at 16:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in Spokane
Pours clear golden with a small white head, good lacing. Aroma is fruity, straw and spicy hops. Flavor is grassy, citrus peel and pine
The best of the 3 Voodoo Ranger beers so far.
Pours clear golden with a small white head, good lacing. Aroma is fruity, straw and spicy hops. Flavor is grassy, citrus peel and pine
The best of the 3 Voodoo Ranger beers so far.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2017
at 22:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a clear, golden yellow, with mid-sized head. Aroma is full of citrus and hops (there’s almost a aroma of curry in there, if I’m not mistaken). Flavor is very fruity--lots of citrus, some tropical--with a nice hop bite to the finish.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2017
at 16:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from Whole Foods Market Fair Lakes Aroma: caramel, citrus, tropical fruits Appearance: clear golden with a white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish, Tasty
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 19:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle. Clear copper, thin foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of pine, tangerine, resin, toasted malt. The taste is grapefruit, lime, resin, pine. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 19:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Full of that candied tropical fruit hop with sweet malts. A bit herbal somehow. Medium bodied. Finish is sweet and fruity. Middle of the road.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2017
at 20:49
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Orange/mango caramel malt, pine, and grapefruit peel aroma. Golden yellow with large off-white head and light effervescence. Moderately sweet citrus caramel malt and moderately strong funky/earthy pine/grapefruit peel flavor. Nice body and balance. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2017
at 18:29
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
[1/28/17] Bottle at the AirBnB apartment in Santa Rosa. Clear golden. Stale hops, orangey. Sweetish, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2017
at 17:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
12 oz can from the new Folly Pack. Aroma is chalky candy, slightly floral, citrus peel, latex, a quickly disappearing faint note of onion--kind of faint, altogether. Pours slightly hazy golden with a one finger off-white head that falls after a minute into a ring and some lace. Taste is mildly bitter with faint citrusy hop qualities. Perfectly fine carbonation, medium bodied. A tasty, very simple and straightforward pale ale that I can picture throwing back more than a few with no problems.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2017
at 01:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Filtered tan-orange body. Foamy white head. Pretty decent hop depth, leaning towards some new school tropical tones. Quite drinkable, but still packs some nice flavor. I’m not wild about the body, I find it a little sugary, but overall an enjoyable, modern enough Pale Ale. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2017
at 21:31