New Belgium Lips of Faith - Fresh Hop

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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(22oz bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of grass, grain, citrus, and pine. Flavor of grass, light pine, tangerine, bread, and florals with a moderately bitter finish.

Name: LoF Fresh Hop IPA
Date: February 19, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Crabapple Bottle Shop
Appearance: clear gold, frothy white head, heavy icy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, fresh floral hops, spicy
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, bready, plenty of hops, light bitterness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

22oz bottle, thanks butters. Small white head, clear apple juice body. Aroma is moderately sweet, grapefruit, some spicy, orange. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit, some orange, light straw. Medium body, light acidity.

Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe in Davis, CA. Pours orange tinged gold with a creamy off-white head. The nose is so full of so many different hops. Floral is a fair description, but inadequate. Full bodied. Flavor is floral/perfume, citrus, and something like earthy/resin. The hop load is fantastic. Mild burn and lots and lots of sensory impingments. Maybe some sort of unusual fruit towards the finish. This is just great ale.

Draft sample. Poured a clear copper color with an average creamy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate sour citrus and earthy aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.

Bottle. Clear bright golden color, small white edge head. Shocking aroma of intense grass and pine needles. Taste is bitter straw, anise, flowers. Very nice.

Bomber poured a clear golden amber with a lasting creamy off white head. Aromas of straw, grapefruit, tangerine, light tropical fruit, light pine and light grassiness. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, grapefruit, tropical fruit, tangerine, pine and light grassiness with a crisp dry moderatly bitter lingering fruity finish.

Bottle shared by Butters. Pours clear light orange with a small, fizzy and bubbly white head, medium retention with light lacing. Aroma is fragrant herbal and earthy hops, straw and biscuit malt, citrus and floral with light tropical esters. Flavor is heavy hops with medium bitterness, medium malt with a dry finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.

Bottle. Pours with a completely clear golden hue with a large and tight, just slightly off-white head. Good retention and very nice lace. Aromas of citrus, canned peaches, herbal and lightly dank, grapefruit rind. Grassy. Light sweet caramel notes. Lots of resin, very sticky. Flavors are a touch husky and grassy, light grainy notes. Medium to light bitterness (overall bitter balance). Hop flavors are shockingly muted (even when compared to the nose). Light floral character. Medium to lively bubbles. A bit of an astringency. Light bodied. A bit of an oily/resiny viscosity. Okay.

Tap at Whole Foods. Orange pour. Aroma is so loaded with fresh hops! Resinous, tropical fruit. And the hops carry right into the flavor. So fresh and vibrant.