UPDATED: JAN 7, 2022 Aroma is intensive fruity, tropical, juicy, kumquat, oranges. Flavor is medium bodied, very citric, grapefruit, kumquat. Bit light bodied for this ABV.

UPDATED: DEC 25, 2021 Can. Sweet guava aroma with notes of peach, grapefruit and orange citrus. Pours hazy, pale golden colored with a large off white head that has excellent retention and some lacing. Starts with juicy guava and peach flavors. Finishes quite smooth with grapefruit citrus and acidity as well as some orange flavors. Quite good.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2021 Can shared by Toni, thanks. Big but short lasting white head. Clowdy typical new England Ipa. Zesty grapefruit aroma with typical intence hop aroma. Very fresh, fruity balanced bitterness taste.

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2021 --Sample, thanks oh6gdx! -- Hazy golden, small head. Aroma of peach and guava. Mid dry with light to medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Canned peach, guava and grain. Low bitterness.

UPDATED: DEC 5, 2021 Blik 35,5cl thuis. Grapefruit, vrij droog, guave, zoet, juicy, lemon, flink fruitig, licht bittertonen, malten. Eigenlijk best lekker. (5-12-2021).

UPDATED: NOV 22, 2021 Can at trailer park tasting. Hazy yellow color with white sheen. Tropical dank, citrus, grapefruit aromas. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Lightly sweet tropical guava juice flavors with dry bitter grapefruit—- juicy finish ___ not bad

UPDATED: JAN 3, 2022
Can 355ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡 💻👀

[ As New Belgium Voodoo Ranger V2K IPA ].
ABV: 6.9%. Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, pale malt, fruity malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, grapefruit - guava, sweet fruit, candied sweet fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, wheat, fruity malt, grapefruit - guava, sweet fruit, candy, hops bitter finish. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20211118]
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UPDATED: NOV 4, 2021 New Belgium, famous as one of America's sour ale pioneers (with the aid of a brewer from Rodenbach in Belgium, it should be added) back in the nineties, has kept evolving in the years since then, and launched its hazy Voodoo Ranger IPA in 2017 to keep pace with the NEIPA craze; this brand was further developed after the takeover by Kirin in 2019 and has led to multiple variants, including this fruit IPA, flavoured with grapefruit and guava - which to me seem redundant as these flavours are naturally present in hazy IPAs, but who am I to judge New Belgium's business. Thick and frothy, pillowy, egg-white, stable head on a fully hazy yolk-yellow blonde beer with deeper apricot hue. Aroma of very zesty citrus peel and citrus fruit, pink grapefruit indeed but orange and lime too, lots of sweet guava, guava cake (or cake dough) even, honey, sugared lemon juice, green melon, Fanta, orange blossoms, old and dusty Napoleon candy, jasmin, hand soap, dusty old crackers, drying grass. Crisp onset, very fizzy carbonation with minerally effects distracting from the fruitiness though a strong citrusiness easily pierces through; guava is very clear as well, albeit in a somewhat artificial, sweet and perfumey way. Slick body, doughy malt core with grainy edges, remaining relatively low in sweetness actually - compared with many other present-day NEIPAs and fruit IPAs at least - but not sour either; strong, colourful zestiness in the finish, indeed giving the impression of a firm dose of actual added citrus on top of the natural citrusiness of the hops; the grapefruit takes the upper hand, in other words, while the influence of the guava diminishes, though remaining clearly noticeable as a soapy, perfumey, tropically sweet background flavour. Some 'powderiness' too, but no hop burn; instead the hops unfold their green mango and lime peel features and a bit of soft bitterness to the finish, which I always enthusiastically welcome in this class of beers. Feels a little bit 'forced' and artificial, but generally a decent fruit IPA, with all the flavours one who would not be familiar with that concept, could associate with 'fruit IPA'. Still, in the long run, I think New Belgium will be remembered mostly for the pioneering La Folie (one of the first American sour ales) and the Lips of Faith series, apart of course from their flagship Fat Tire, which in its own way became one of those classic names in the early development of U.S. craft beer.

UPDATED: OCT 30, 2021 Tasting this evening from a 12 oz can of V2K, been some time since I tried a New Belgium brew. Tilting into a tulip glass, I see a light colored lemon yellow body, hazy certainly, with a bare top of solidly white foam. The scent, hmm, pretty nice. Mango, citrus, a hint of hops. I lift for a drink, straight ahead grapefruit, some hoppiness, a little pine and no guava I can detect. Bittersweet might be the right word for it, with an emphasis on the bitter side, not much sweet to offset. Not what I anticipated.

UPDATED: OCT 20, 2021 Grapefruit comes first, with the guava sweetening up the finish. Light hazy yellow appearance, this is quite fruity. Okay, but not great.