New Belgium Lips of Faith - Belgian Style Blond Ale

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pours a clear yellowish color with lots of carbonation and fluffy white head. It reminds me a lot of how Miller Lite commercials are made to look haha. Good strong scents of wheat and malts to this 8.5% abv one time only beer. The taste is so smooth. Lots of taste to it, among them are sweet malts, complex wheat and a slight bit of bitterness. A rather well made beer, a little on the expensive side for 1 beer but well worth it!

April 17th, 2010 - The Lips of Faith series as flourished in recent years, acting as New Belgium’s bold and avante garde laboratory experiment while Fat Tire & Co. work on defecating hundred dollar bills for the company. Their latest effort eschews funky ingredients and wonky brewing instructions for a classically Belgian style done New Belgian Style. And like it’s cousins across the sea, this beer pours with a massive iceberg of a head, with a clear golden body somewhere under it’s titanic, morphing geometry. The scent is springy, sharp and clean (whether that’s a product of this particular hops profile I do not know), and a splash of white grape juice. More white grapes, freshly crushed and sugars pouring into the beer, appears in the taste, with a finer hops balance, giving it a dry, luxurious and almost champagne-like quality. While not as exciting as some of the other Lips of Faith series (Eric’s Ale, I’m looking at you!), this is a refined drink, and demonstrates New Belgium’s aptitude for the brewing styles that sired it’s founder’s motivation to brew commercially.

Pours a hazy white gold with a thick white head. Aroma is a bit sour and alcohol. Flavor is very full, but of.what? This is probably the best blonde ale I’ve had.

22oz bomber poured into a Trappist Glass. Pours a clear dark gold with about 3 fingers of frothy white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast with some light citrus hops. Taste is light sweet and light bitter. Citrus hops with some light fruits, pear and apple. Light bodied with a sticky texture. Lively carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, it’s ok. Not really anything special here.

Pours pale golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet malt, yeast, light earthy hop. Flavor is very sweet, overripe apple, light spice, and hoppy bitterness.

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2012
Name: LoF Belgian Style Blonde
Date: June 15, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Hop City, Atlanta
Appearance: clear gold, robust white head, lots of scattered lace
Aroma: sweet cereal aroma, touch of spicyness, light floral hops
Flavor: sweet spicy flavor, cereal sweetness, nice spicyness, light balancing hops, slightly floral, light bitterness
Overall: not very Belgian, not worthy of the Lips of Faith name
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Bottle. Thick head. Corn aroma. Tasted sweet cereal, grass, surprisingly light alcohol taste with light hops.

Bottle:   Translucent straw, pale, moderate carbonation, large frothy white head, spotty lacing.   Grassy nose, slight perfume, but a lot of corn.   Smells mainly like a cheap American Lager.   Bright straw and corn on the tongue.   Bubbley, mild sweetness, a touch of dryness.   More grass/corn than your standard Belgian example.   Not as carbonated as others.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Lingering alcohol infused corniness.   Yeah, the rest of this goes down the drain... not a fan.

On tap during 2011 Craft Lager Fest. Clear transparent straw yellow, with a big foamy white head. Aroma of Belgian funk, pale malt, light lemonness, but pretty fasint overall. Tasty though. Belgian funk overrides the whole flavor, but under it is wheat, earthy funky malts, and light bitterness with a definite noble hop background at the finish.

really pretty unexciting beer with good lacing but no real flavor to desrcibe. dark piss colored. well hidden alcohol. just not alot going on, but not bad in any way.