VBDCK Brewery Kerel Grapefruit IPA

Kerel Grapefruit IPA

 

VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  IPA Regular
Score
6.71
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 53 Ticks: 50
A beer whose wort is mixed with real grapefruit puree to allow the sugar to ferment out, leaving the tropical aromas behind. This beer is a real crowd-pleaser. It’s perfect for any moment or meal, thanks to its bold grapefruit flavour, tart character and light hoppiness.
 

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

330ml bottle. Minimally milky, yellow-ish, golden colour with average to huge, frothy to macropore, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Citrusy fruity (hoppy) aroma, pale malty background, notes of grapefruit, some lemon. Taste is zesty bitter, citrusy fruity hoppy, pale malty basis without residual sweetness, notes of grapefruit, grapefruit peel, a touch of lemon, lots of zesty bitterness, minimally perfumed fruitiness.
Oily-watery texture, very dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Quite dry and bitter, minimally perfumed fruitiness - OK.

Tried from Bottle from Mr. Hop (webshop) on 25 Oct 2025 at 20:07


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Lekkerbier, St. Nicolaasga. Aroma is modest fruity hop with grapefruit, malt, some caramel and pine. Flavour is light to moderate sweet with a fairly bitter finish. Body is medium. Lacks a distinct fruitiness, more like a malty APA. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:17


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

330ml bottle. Pours a dull unclear gold, eager to leave the bottle, forming an overly large bubble bath foam head. Aroma of floral marigold and grapefruit. Flavour profile produces a relatively hoppy character, but seems past it's best, floral grapefruit is here but alongside a dirty bitterness. Quite gassy.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2024 at 18:45


7

Spannend, gefällt mir gut diese Bitter- und Fruchtnoten, dazu was Undefinierbares.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2023 at 21:08


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

opalescent pale yellow colour, moderate sized dense snow-white head; aroma of pomelo, grpefruit, orange juice, some grassy-lemongrassy and maybe barnyard notes; taste has the same notes as can be felt in the aroma with quite definite hoppy-grapefruity bitterness; not bad at all

Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2023 at 20:40


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Fles gekregen van Kim en Sander. Het is een troebel oranje bruin bier met een volle witte schuimkraag welke snel weg ebt. Het heeft een hoppige en grapefruit achtige geur. De smaak is vol, bitter en grapefruit achtig.

Tried on 06 May 2022 at 17:41


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

Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter fnish. Oily palate.

Tried on 03 May 2022 at 08:45


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap @Bruges Beer Festival, April 9 & 10 2022. Color amarillo espuma blanca, aromas frutales, pomelo, sabor frutal tropical.

Tried from Draft on 27 Apr 2022 at 17:14


7

33cl bottle. A almost clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of Taste of grapefruit, zesst, tropical fruits, high drinkability.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2022 at 20:20


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle on 5th February 2022 from La Belgique Gourmande, Brussels. Pours hazy coppery amber with heavy off-white foam. Spicy grapefruit zest in aroma. Tart grapefruit to the fore in-mouth with nuttiness in the background. Both flavour foci linger in a finish leaving the drinker wanting more. Full bodied with an engaging texture.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2022 at 23:36