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Vocation Brewery

Pours an entirely hazy yellow color with a big and stable head.

Aromas are of sun ripened oranges, together with red apples and tangerines among lighter apricots and big chunks of lemons.

Mouthfeel on this is light, refreshing, yet pleasantly smooth, with a well nuanced, slightly effervescent carbonation level.

Tastes of wet grass, resin, sugared braided yeast bun and slowly uprising lemons. The citrus plant driven hop in this develop an uncompromising bitter bite, gently entangled into lighter toffee and smooth whipped cream. Finishes with a note of birthday cake, dry garden herbs and prevailing, present lemons.

Quite a tasty IPA with a fantastic mouthfeel to it, glueing all the flavors in this together perfectly well.

 

Yellowish brown and slightly hazy with moderate carbonation. It has a huge five fingers of head which is slightly beige in tone.

The smell is amazing. It smells of fresh pineapple, jackfruit, grapefruit, and sugared tropical fruit.

The taste is dank with notes of lemon, citrus, mango, papaya.

It has a medium body with a little carbonation.

I bought this in Phuket Thailand and I’m drinking it at Kata beach, February 22, 2022.

 

Pours a slightly hazy yellow, or maybe a straw color. Nice head with good lacing.
Aroma is piney and floral with citrus. Also a bit of dankness.
Taste is juicy and citrusy.
Good carbonation with bit of dryness.
Overall a very good IPA.

 

 

330 ml can, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 6.5%. Unfiltered and unpasteurised. Golden colour, slightly hazy. Large white head. Strong hoppy aroma of tropical fruits, citrus and pine. Slightly dry flavour, still with some residual sweetness. Hoppy flavour, notes of tropical fruits and pine needles, fairly bitter finish. A decent US style IPA.

 

330ml can. A juicy American-style IPA from West Yorkshire. Lots of citrus and tropical fruits with moderate bitterness. Easy-drinking for its 6.5% ABV.

Pours a hazy light orange. Smells of pineapple, mangoes, peach and tea, very fruity smells. Taste follows the nose in that it's a fruity bitter taste with a surprisingly lightish medium body. Taste does die out quite quickly leaving a dryness but is quite refreshing. This is a good beer. Vocation produce consistently good supermarket available craft beers.

 

 

 

L: Light gold, almost yellow colour, almost a three-finger head, lasting lacing
S: Pineapple, grapefruit, mango, orange, lemon, lime, peach
T: Bitter citrus, zestiness, some slightly lighter fruit notes, nutiness
F: The alcohol is there, but only as a vague background, good feeling on the palate

O: 4.25

 

 

 

330ml Can from Morrison's (£1.75):
Quite a light amber coloured beer with a clear body & a centimetre tall head that's foamy & white, with good retention too. The nose is slightly fresh with some pine & a hint of hop oil in the background as well as some subtle citrus notes. Towards the middle some hints of mango & a light, almost earthy starts to come through as well before touches of lemon & grapefruit see things out. It's quite a fresh tasting beer too though with the fruits coming more to the front in the form of some mango & a little apricot too. It's a tangy one with nice citrus flavours & a pine/grapefruit bitterness in there as well. The beer is well carbonated & quite dry nearer the end with some hop bitterness throughout but it was a balanced & easy going beer, exactly what I'd expect from Vocation.

 

 

 

 

This IPA stacks up well with all the US IPAs. Well done!

 

A 330ml can with a BB of July 2018. Picked up a while back from Tesco. Described on the label as an American IPA with tropical and citrus fruit flavours supported by a malty backbone.

A: Poured into an IPA glass. Can-conditioned. A deep orange-amber hue with intense carbonation and tons of floating sediment. Produces a vast head of fluffy white foam with decent retention; this slowly reduces to a persistent surface layer. Slight lacing.

S: Aroma of fruity hops with hints of lemon rind, citrus, tropical fruit, mild white grape, subtle grass, caramel malt and ale yeast. A tad sharp but pretty good.

T: Tastes of fruity aromatic hops with notes of lemon, citrus zest, peel, tropical fruit, white grape, grass/hay, caramel malt, ale yeast and a vague leafiness. Pretty dry, followed by a substantial hoppy bitterness upon swallowing.

M: Mouthfeel is smooth, tingly and dry, with lively carbonation and great body. Slightly astringent; hop oils stimulate the palate. Aftertaste of bitter aromatic hops, citrus, tropical fruit, caramel malt and ale yeast.

O: Rather nice - lots of hop character on offer. Looks good, while the aroma and flavour are stuffed with fruity hops underpinned by caramel malt and yeast. Great body. Drinkable and delicious; goes down a treat. Well worth sampling.

 

 

 

Pours a light amber coloration with a small, frothy head. Smells of sweet, biscuity malt, marmalade and a hint of citrus and pine. Taste is a dominated by a slightly chemical marmalade taste, with notes of sweet, biscuity malt and dank hops. Some citrus notes: orange and grapefruit and a hint of pine, with a light bitterness. This seems poorly balanced to me. It's a tad too sweet and malty, with not enough bitterness. The dominating orange marmalade flavor has that slightly odd chemical taste to it. It's ok, but I wouldn't be keen on having it again.

 

330 ml can, Tesco's, Bristol - Pours cloudy gold with a medium white foamy head. Nice lacing. Medium carbonation. Aroma - Juicy fruit to the fore - citrus/grapefruit, tropical/mango, light pine resin notes. Taste - Sweet fruity forefront - citrus/grapefruit, tropical/mango, light resin middle, crisp light bitter finish. Great juicy IPA.

 

Foam comes out of the can when i crack it. The beer keeps on foaming whew poured, it builds a three finger head that slowly sinks down leaving some lacing. The somewhat hazy liquid is pale gold.

The smell is dry and hoppy with distinct notes of grapefruit and lime. Some pine needles and sweet perfumed flavours.

The taste is at first bitter with grapefruit and bitter oranges. The flavours fades quickly leaving room for dusty malt and lemon acid. Light to medium body. The aftertaste is dusty, too with growing alcohol, chemical bitterness, orange juice and bitter herbs. Alcohol and sweet tropic fruit candy in the finish.

The carbonation is medium strong, the small bubbles fresh and short-lived. The liquid is sticky.

A bit thin, otherwise an OK AIPA.

 

Medium head with large bubbles, a touch frothy. Haziness giving a soft glow when held to the light. Significant citrus aromas at first with grapefruit, tangerine and a touch of mango. Fairly crisp taste initially with maltiness underneath. Bitterness to the back of the mouth but carrying some of the fruitiness, giving an impression of marmalade with a degree of sweetness to balance. Relatively vigorous carbonation but not too much. A crispness that might be mistaken for thinness, especially towards the front of the mouth, where it feels cooler and cleaner, but this is balanced by a little bit of warmth and body from the alcohol. A very enjoyable ale. Growing on me as I drink it.

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A great whiff of piney marmaladey hops hits the nose. Bitter, very sharp tasting, very refresing. Like the nose it's full of piney, earthy orange marmalade with citrus in the finish.

For a beer from my local Tesco Extra this has far exceeded expectations.