Kerel Grapefruit IPA
VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.68
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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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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at home. Hazy amber with fluffy white head. Sweet malts, grapefruit, rose petals, big floral, parfumey and soapy, plasticcy, bready, big Belgian yeast, tea leafy bitter, biscuits. Moderate sweet and over medium bitter. Medium body and above average carbonation. The design of the label and awkward medicine bottle form factor are the best things about this beer. Too good to be true. --- Beer merged from original tick of Kerel Grapefruit IPA on 03 May 2018 at 23:25 - Score: 6
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2018
at 21:20
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Gollemke. Bit hazy amber with off white head. Grapefruit peel, quite malty with caramel, bread and even some wort. Soft hops, mostly on the grassy side but also with light onion and dank weeds. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied. I quite liked their regular IPA but this is nowhere near as good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2018
at 10:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
7 3 7 3 14 Bottle shared at Gollemke. Very hazy amber brown with a cream coloured head. Aroma of grapefruit, caramel malt and herbal hops. Flavour is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2018
at 10:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. A bit hazy orange color, full sized off-white head, quite foamy, but lasting. Smell and taste malts, some hops, grapefruit, tart citrus peel, bitter. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Quite nice for only 4.2% ABV.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2017
at 13:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark orange, creamy white. Nose is weirdly sweet, milky, sugar, dough, candy, malt,… Taste is industrial sweet, oily, sugar, dough, caramel, fruit is lost, nothing IPA in the regular sense here,… Body is caramel, wort, oily, sugar,… It has one great rating on here but this is very weak compared to the international scene I think, there are BE breweries making far, far, far better IPA’s than this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 03:28
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as VBDCK Kerel Grapefruit IPA (by VBDCK Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 21/XII/18 (2017-1095) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, lots of small specks floating under a small creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit malty, grains, somewhat fruity, hint of grapefruit and some tropical fruits, bubble gum, bit of passion fruit. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, grassy kind of bitterness, malty notes, some citrus and grapefruit, hoppy, bit resinous. Aftertaste: fruity, citrus, bitter, bit resinous, very malty, grains, bit grassy, very bitter and dry finish.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 21/XII/18 (2017-1095) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, lots of small specks floating under a small creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit malty, grains, somewhat fruity, hint of grapefruit and some tropical fruits, bubble gum, bit of passion fruit. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, grassy kind of bitterness, malty notes, some citrus and grapefruit, hoppy, bit resinous. Aftertaste: fruity, citrus, bitter, bit resinous, very malty, grains, bit grassy, very bitter and dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2017
at 18:01