Pride & Joy
Vocation Brewery

RB transfer

 

Copenhagen 4/12 2020. 44 cl can from Meny, Borups Allé. Frb. F. Black can with blue letters and white drawings of a gun and an eagle.

Pours slightly unclear, golden yellow with a mid-sized white head. Settles as thin, almost transparent layer of foam struggling to cover the surface of the beer. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is medium intense with a sweet fruity odor mingling with a dry, citric scent. Peach and canned pear. Citrus, lime and dusty hops.

Light carbonation. Thin, oily, almost flat texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a slightly stronger citric bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and lingers for a while Finish is fairly dry.

A bit flat but with fine redeeming, dry bitterness.

 

Pours a clouded amber-golden color with a big, bubbly head atop.

Offers intriguing aromas of candied oranges, fresh cut limes and underlying blueberries with a note of ripe papaya as well.

Its body is light and refreshing with a thirst quenching effervescence, together with a well working balance.

Tastes of bitter, dry limes, smooth bread dough and sweet, ripe oranges with a note of lighter passion fruit. Offers a sweeter mid palate with more toffee accompanied bread dough, lighter caramel and sweeter turning fruits. Finishes with a pleasantly dry crispness, crackers, honey and prevailing, well nuanced bitter hops.

This is an outstandingly well brewed Pale Ale with a fantastic balance to it, which is recognizable in all departments, making this very enjoyable.

330 ml can, unfiltered and unpasteurised, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 5.3%. Pale golden colour, large white head. Pleasant hoppy aroma of tropical fruits, especially mango. Slightly dry and distinctly fruity flavour (tropical fruits again), with a piney / resinous and medium bitter finish. Well balanced.

330ml can from brewery. Pours golden, slight haze. Taste is strong tropical fruit. Mouthfeel is soft, body is medium. Good hop aftertaste. My favourite from the Vocation range.

L: Leaves lacing which resembles thick frost, hazy lemon in colour
S: Spiciness, citrus zest, rich candy, mango, lime, lemon
T: Mango, grapefruit, pine
F: Smooth, body emerges towards the end

O: 4.5

 

 

Vocation's write-up doesn't mention grapefruit. It should. It has too much grapefruit rind. That taste is often the short-cut that partly mimics the West Coast PA. That is OK, but the short-cut shows.

So instead of finding nice things to say about Pride & Joy, I went on Vocation's website. I didn't get much satisfaction there either. Not an informative website. Like I couldn't find when were they born and what their struggles are and what they do for the community. I really don't get all that good guy stuff. So, I give them average marks there, too.

A: Pours a slightly hazy golden honey in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate burnt orange + apricot + pale golden yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall sudsy foamy off-white head that slowly reduces to a large patch of very slightly mottled medium thick film covering a little more than 75% of the surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of pine, citrus/grapefruit pith, citrus/grapefruit zest, spicy, and herbal hops over the top of light to moderate aromas of toasted + bready + caramel malts with a light presence of caramel sweetness.

T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of toasted + bready + caramel malts with a light presence of caramel sweetness. That is followed by slightly stronger than moderate flavors of pine, citrus/grapefruit pith, citrus/grapefruit zest, spicy, and herbal hops which impart a moderate amount of aggressive bitterness which lingers through the finish.

M: Just shy of medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Crisp upfront with a light amount of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a nice aggressive hop presence. Enjoyable with more than enough bitterness to hide any malty sweetness. Kind of old school but appreciated.

 

 

330ml Can from Co-Op (£1.99):
Opening quite sweet with a floral bitterness & plenty of tropical fruits that were dominated by mango & pineapple but had a few more following on behind too. There was a good balance to the beer with some lighter malts coming through around the middle with a grapefruit & citrus bitterness nearer the end to give the beer quite refreshing feel to it despite the dry finish.

 

L- Cloudy, I can't see through the glass. Mid yellow, pours with thin white head that rapidly clears to lacing.
S- Prominent citrus smell that was clear from 2 foot away on opening the can. Up close I get strong grapefruit, and I don't think anything else manages to get past that.
T- O-M-G. It is as if someone has handed me a glass of 1/2 lager + 1/2 grapefruit juice. It is that sharp and pungent.
M- Palate stripping.
O- I've never had a beer with *this* extreme of citrus flavour, it's completely OTT and unbalanced to me. There's not much point me trying to taste/rate any other beers this evening. What an unexpected taste it has, I'm curious what kind of person might positively enjoy such a beer.
BB is unclear, likely 06/19. Bought from a Tesco in London

 

 

From a can.
L: Nice haze, colour of ochre, light carbonation, massive and long-lasting head, lots of spotty lacing. Looks great in an IPA glass.
S&T: Mango and grapefruit followed by a solid, bitter, piney finish. Nice balance.
F: Smooth & dry. Lightly coats the mouth. A little soapiness.
O: Not bad at all. More hoppy and bitter than a lot of American-style pale ales brewed in the UK. I liked it.