Vulpuloid IPA
Malcroys Brewing in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Summer|
Score
7.42
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Back to reality: Vulpuloid is a hazy ipa, brewed the way we like our ipa’s: Hazy, full bodied, crazy amounts of hop and a bitter end that make you long for the next sip.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Please keep this beer refrigerated at all time and drink it as fresh as possible. ( And check regularly if you don’t feel a hop bine growing ;) )
nathanvc (5932) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
21 August 2021. At Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to the Ghent beer crew! Hazy ochre, thin, foamy, white head. Aroma of ripe mango, tangerine, rambutan, peach, pepper, bread crust, lime. Taste has sweetish mango, rambutan & melon, bittersweet citrus peel & grapefruit, bit spicy over biscuity, doughty maltiness. Floral hoppy finish, bit peppery, spicy, yeasty too, lingering ripe tropical fruit & citrus peel. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Interesting concoction.
gave a cheers!
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy West Coast IPA - sounds a bit oxymoronic, but then this Malcroys project is all about challenging boundaries and tastes, and all the better for it, we need this kind of approach a lot more in Belgium. Tasted at GBF, thanks to the brewer (Kevin Devos) himself for bringing this one to my attention. Snow white, moussy, stable head lacing in dots over a cloudy pale apricot blonde beer, even a tad milky looking in the end - nothing West Coast to see here so far... Beguiling bouquet of lime zest, green banana, lemon verbena, unripe mango and unripe mandarin, moist white pepper, lemon cookies or lemon cake. Cleanly 'green-fruity' onset, again unripe banana and mango, some apricot, some lime, fizzily carbonated with somewhat minerally effect, supple but sufficiently full body. Cracker- and dough-like, vaguely sweetish malt core, highly and brightly aromatized by a clever selection of hops, adding aspects of again green mango, mandarin, lemongrass, starfruit and perhaps a faint touch of lychee; the hops, however, also provide a mild end bitterness, paired with a refreshing citric tail - though the powerful grapefruity bitterness that typifies a West Coast IPA is something very different altogether. I get the idea of brewing a hazy IPA and adding a bit more bitterness to evoke West Coast associations, but this to me remains largely in New England territory, albeit indeed in a 'green', citrusy way, which makes it much more drinkable and refreshing than all those overly sweet 'fruit juice IPAs' I had too many of in recent years. In the 'inner circles' of Belgian beer aficionados Kevin Devos has already long proven himself as not only a very accomplished brewer from a technical point of view, but also, and perhaps much more importantly, a very bold and innovative brewer, displaying a creativity and willingness to explore which is downright amazing from time to time. This is not his most innovative beer, perhaps, but who cares: there are very few other brewers in Belgium capable of presenting a hazy IPA at this level of quality (and believe me, I tried many). Stunning.
gave a cheers!
Sebletitje (14835) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck and Nathan.
Dorée sur léger trouble, col fin blanc.
Arôme est houblonné sur un bouquet 'dank' avec pas mal d'agrumes et de tropical dont un léger bouquet de baies vertes - léger sur le pin avec un petit côté poivré résineux en retrait.
Palais est sec accentué par cet effet de ddh, note fine épicée - fruits sur les agrumes, léger terreux en fin de bouche - effervescence est haute avec en fin de bouche un côté fin résineux et finement huileux.
gave a cheers!
Sloefmans (14286) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
I Draught /I Full lace from good yellow, fine & dense head over fully hazy orange beer. Citrus, orange, lunaria, nectarine; very intense & inviting. Bitter, resiny, ultra dry taste with a faint orange-like sweetness behind. Very powerful, except for the very finish that comes out a bit demure. Long lasting resiny bitterishness, all the same. Very light, but present fatty impression warming up. Quite slick - hopoily, some creaminess in the texture, as diluted fruitmash. Very good hazy IPA, indeed almost West Coast.
gave a cheers!
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
10/VI/21 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 30/VII/21, batch: VPL0001 (2021-483)
Pretty cloudy blond beer, creamy irregular dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lovely, tropical fruits, juicy, mango, very dank, little cheesy, onions, some diesel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: good bitterness, some tropical fruits, juicy, citrus, very dank, tropical fruits, hoppy, bit grassy, good! Aftertaste: dank hops, juicy, tropical fruits, very bitter, resinous juicy, citrus, more dnak hops, very nice! Probably the best dank IPA to have ever been produced in Belgium…
gave a cheers!
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Vulpuloid IPA from Malcroys Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
First ( and only keg of this batch) ever by this brewery ! I immediately LOVE how the brewer realizes the difference between hazy and NE style, and thus refuses to call this NE style simply because it's hazy. Can others PLEASE start following this example ? The beer pours a very hazy, creamy blonde. Medium small white head. Scent is mild citrus, mild tropical. Creamy. Medium low intensity. Taste is full, creamy, bitterness is medium high. Citrus, bright and fresh. Medium body, medium to medium low carbo. Very nice, summer refreshing IPA.