New Belgium Lips of Faith - Clutch

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bomber pours dark brown with a small khaki head. Aroma is dark roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, with a slight brett presence. This has a really interesting taste same flavors as aroma but really feels like a light smoked porter combined with a sour. Would have liked a bigger sour presence but still really enjoyable.

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman’s bottom? That’s right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman..

650 ml. bottle. Pours a light beige long duration head, with some lacing, over a dark brown (SRM 35) clear body.....nose is primarily coffee, chocolate, with light hints of dried fruit (raisin, cherry).....taste is chocolate, light coffee, light cherry, bit of raisin, some vanilla, finishing with very minimal lactic sour tones....mouth feel medium, carbonation adds a nice spritz. This is a pleasant enough beer, but is a very mild sour ale and I think missed its mark. It is more of a light Imperial Stout than a Sour Ale. If there is Brett in there it is completely overwhelmed by the malt backbone. In my tasting experience, the mixture of Belgian style yeast, with the malts of an Imperial Stout, ends up with the malts dominating the esters and phenols of the yeast. BJCP 7/3/14/4/7

On tap at flying saucer eleventeen party. Pours black with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate with some tart cherries. Flavor is mainly roasted malts and milk chocolate backed by a hint of tart cherries.

Did not know this was a stout-like brew when I got the pour at Falling Rock, but a very dark brownish almost black pour with a light tan head. Aroma picked up roast, chocolate, coffee, dark fruit, tinges of sourness with some dark sour cherry notes. Taste was nice and roasty, has some nice sweet chocolate and bitter espresso, some fruity sour notes with a touch of funk interjected slightly, not overly sour or sour forward by any means, but added a nice element. The finish was the most odd, some funk, some roast, some sweet chocolate, and some sour fruit. Really nice and full on the palate. Overall, a well done brew.

Tap @ The Mayor Foco. Dark brown/black appearance with a tan head. Roasty dark Belgian chocolate, very very light sourness in the nose. Velvety dark belgian chocolate, mild fruity tartness, espresso, roasty malty flavor with the sourness rearing its head more in the finish. Tingly aftertaste. Funky, unexpected beer. Very interesting.

Bottle (while listening to Clutch-Drink to the Dead). Pours with a black body and a large brown head. Tight bubbles, good retention and decent lace. Aroma is strongly roasty, even at a distance. Up close there is even more roast, chocolate, earth, soil, cola, coffee, nutty, fudge, raisin, dark fruits. Cold pressed coffee and a light spicy (cinnamon-esque note). Lightly floral, vanilla, not much else. Flavors are indeed a bit sour, but Kick is a bit more sour. Very earthy, woody, tobacco, ash, light smoke. Not really how I enjoy my sour beers. Lightly vegital, nut shells. Mildly vinous. Cocoa, coffee. Acidity/sourness is really just a straight, mellow lactic, no real bug or funk character. Roasty, somewhat bitter finish. That said this is still somewhat drinkable. Not oppressive nor astringent. Zippy carbonation, creamy, medium to full body, lightly warming.

Bottle shared at The Beer Mongers... Poured dark, not quite black, with a thin tan head. Flavors of cocoa, slight roast, malted sweetness, and dark fruits that was all cut by a mild tartness. It wasn’t too sour at all.

Bottle to snifter. Pour dark brown with a kahki creamy head that fades to a foamy collar. Aroma is sour chocolate roasted malt. Taste is roasted and malty with faint chocolate and a lingering bitter sour. Palate is full and creamy slick with a dry finish. Little too much going on, looking for more sour.

Bottle shared by portableparty! Dark black pour, lasting head & lacing and a slightly sour chocolate aroma. Plently of malt, chocolate and sour apple? Hmm, decent beer but a little bit of a mess flavors in this one.