New Belgium Lips of Faith - Brett Beer

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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(22oz bottle from Total Wine Arrowhead). Pours a mostly clear golden color with a small off-white head that leaves some lacing. Active carbonation. Aroma is Brett, pear, green apple. Taste is sweet with a hint of tart. Lots of fruit. Thinner bodied with a lightly spicy finish. Drinks easier than 7.5%. Pretty refreshing.

Found this for 5.99, so I figured I would give it a whirl - as others have noted, this is not a wild ale - more like a mildly bretty tripel - lightly hazy gold pour - slight fizzy lace - nose is fairly sweet, with notes of honey, tropical fruit, and light sweaty pineapple brett - underlying notes of alcohol and acetone - low carbonation - medium body - flabby texture - quite a sweet flavor, with some honey and sugary maltiness - light tropical notes - some dull yeastiness though the middle - tail end has mild esters, barely perceptible brett funk, mild spiciness - rather strong alcohol in the finish - a bit of lingering, doughy yeast - maybe if the brett had more time to develop, it might be a decent beer - right now it is messy and hard to enjoy.

Hazy and orangish gold pour, aroma of some Brett, maltiness, other sweetness and earthiness. Taste is sweet and malty with a little salt, good, but expect it to be better after some age.

Tasted on 6/22/12 from a corked 650mL bomber bottle purchased at Midtown. Pours hazy golden with a thick white head that slowly recedes to thin lace, leaving lace residue along the inside of the glass. The nose is lightly nutty with brett, peach, apricot, and a hint of banana. The flavor is a bit more malty bread than the nose would have suggested, with slightly spicy hops, brett funk, and the same pitted fruits and banana from the nose. The body is medium with lively carbonation and a long spicy hops and funky, dry brett finish.

Color is an Orange with fluffy white head and white floaties. Flavor is salty, peachy, Brett , and a little Olive oil. Very dry. Slight aroma of gym socks.

Courtesy of roommate. Pours a visibly cloudy wheat color. Funky, yeasty barnyard aroma, and not a great deal else on the nose. Gently carbonated. The wild yeast goes well with the sorachi hops, generating a funky yet somewhat creamy, almost buttery flavor that rolls into a mild hop bitterness. This beer isn’t explosive flavor-wise, but more like a gentle and pleasant stroll. Good.

Cloudy gold pour, frothy white head. Aroma of brett, leather, sweet malt, sugar cookie, light hop extract. Flavor is much sweeter than I expected. Very malt driven flavor, i think this one needs time.

Poured in a tulip glass from a 22 oz. bomber. White head with small effervescent bubbles, quickly dissipating, atop a straw yellow beer. Aromas are citrus hops and funky, earthy, yeastiness with an after taste of pineapple. Flavors are sweet grain, citrus, and spicy hops. This beer is full bodied with medium low carbonation. Decent beer, very drinkable. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with white fluffy head. Aroma of funky banana with farmhouse bubble gum, hay. Flavor of rotten banana with strong funky farmhouse and bubble gum, weird sweetness with a touch of horse blanket. Absolutely "No Sour". Medium mouthfeel with soft, fizzy carbonation. Overall, this is a huge disappointment, I have always loved all beers with the "Lost Abbey" name attached to it. I am kinda ticked off! Thank god it was cheap!. Just not a good beer.....perhaps this is a fluke so I will buy another bottle to age a month from now.

Wow! How do I start this one? Like that I guess. First of all it tastes like a luke-warm peanut butter smoothie. Its a brighter shade of yellow with a lasting thin film of a white head. The aroma maybe has some yeast but for strangely a lot of peanut butter. Don’t like that vocabulary? go drink some water. Is it good? I can’t tell you that. The lacing is nice, but definitely not sour. The closest beer note you’ll recognize in this one is the bready charachter of a blond, which supposedly this is not. The commercial description on this one is way off save for the bit of pineapple in the aroma.