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New Belgium La Folie 4.01 764

New Belgium La Folie

Percentile
99
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
7644.02/5.04.01/5.06%93.7Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
La Folie Wood-Aged Biere, is our original wood-conditioned beer, resting in French Oak barrels between one and three years before being hand bottled, numbered and corked for your enjoyment. Brewmaster, Peter Bouckaert, came to us from Rodenbach – home of the fabled sour red. Our La Folie emulates the spontaneous fermentation beers of Peter’s beloved Flanders with sour apple notes, a dry effervescence, and earthy undertones.
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SFtaster (18), San Francisco, California, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/105/518/20
Feb 7, 2010  
On draft @Toronado. My first sour beer experience- now I know what everybody is raving about! I don’t know how this stacks up against the competition, but I’m happy to give New Belgium a big thimbs up. This tasting has inspired me to check out other sours.


mjmcend (32), USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/510/105/519/20
Feb 6, 2010  
A wonderful example of the sour red ale. New Belgium does its roots proud with this beer. The sour apple is balanced perfectly. An eminently sessionable sour (if such a thing could be said to exist). Quite frankly, I am in love.


 thewolf (5957), Kolding, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Feb 6, 2010  
Bottle. Can’t remember who traded me this, but thanks to you!
Vintage 2007
Pours deep, wonderful red with a fairly large, but rather fizzy white head. Disappears rather fast, but leaves the great deep red colour to really play in my glass. Aroma is splendid. Lots of oak, cherries, funky and a wonderful underlying strawberry note. High, prickly carbonation and a good, light and breezy mouthfeel. Tart, fruity flavour, oak, lambic notes, peach, cherries - and some fructose. Dry, tart and super oaky. Top-class and probably the best American sour ale I’ve tried.


 mattmc1973 (322), Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 5, 2010  
I’m relatively new to sours, but wow, this one grabs you! On tap at Local Option in Chicago. Dark ruby/brown with off-white head. Aroma is very sour and strong vinegar. Taste is more of the same, some bready malt and funky yeast, but mostly sour vinegar that puckers the mouth and hits you in the back of the tongue. Crisp medium mouthfeel. Not bad!


 arminjewell (342), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Feb 3, 2010  
Pours dark brown with thick tan head, aroma is full of tart cherries and apple. Taste up front is some sweet apples and vanilla working into a nice tart and sour apple finish. Not experienced with sour ale, but this one was good!


 Mora2000 (370), Dallas, Texas, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Feb 2, 2010  
Pours dark brown to black with a tan head. The aroma is strong oak and vanilla with some tart citrus and tart dark fruit. You also get some chocolate. The flavor is tart fruit. Lots of sour cherries. You also get oak and vanilla. As the beer warms, it becomes a more lactic sourness as opposed to the sour fruit that was in the beer earlier. Thin-medium mouthfeel and low to medium carbonation. A truly outstanding beer.


 brenn79 (251), Idaho, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/515/20
Jan 29, 2010  
22 oz. bottle- Pours reddish black with small thin head, aroma is tart and pleasant. the flavor is tart like a Granny Smith apple, and mellows out after it sits in the glass. I am fairly new to sour ales, my only other experience is 2008 vintage of The Dissident, but seems pretty good to me.


 Trev (930), Lakeville, Minnesota, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Jan 26, 2010  
Bomber: brownish red colour with a quick head aroma is vinegary sourness, woody. some cherry flavour is very tart funky, green apple, cherry. read someone mention rhubarb and I can totally get that as well. Woody finish.



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