New Belgium Lips of Faith - Grand Cru Abbey Ale

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Bottle. Amber with medium tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, yeast, little toffee and fruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, toffee, caramel, sweet and a little nutty.

Bottle @ Falling Rock poured a clear reddish brown with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of raisins, bananas, carmel, vanilla and spices. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bananas, raisins, brown sugar and spices with a smooth slightly sweet finish.

12-oz. bottle given to me by one of the co-owners of Choice City Butcher and Deli in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Pours brown with a tall creamy off-white head, sticky and spotty lacing. Aroma is malt (biscuit, cereal), yeast (wheat dough, cellar) and fruit (cherry, banana, pineapple), vanilla notes. Creamy caramel malt and brown sugar flavor, medium bitterness and moderate acidity, wheaty dough and banana. Medium bodied, creamy and slightly thin palate with a fizzy finish.

UPDATED: DEC 14, 2008 On tap. Wow, this a super Dubbel. Pours with a clearish, reddish brown body with a small off-white head with some very good lacing. Aroma of candi, dark fruits, berries, banana, clove, leather, tobacco, and honey. Taste is berries, dark fruits, alcohol, and light caramelized banana. Medium to full bodied, slightly warming and a cream mouthfeel with light carbonation. A very enjoyable beer, that I would love to have easily available.

Deep chestnut, slim head. Fruity nose, candy sugar apparent. Bitter, from dark roasted malts, dry, taste of brown candi sugar. Some banana, but restrained. Well-bodied, alcohol very obvious. Interesting - a whole other interpretation with the words 'Grand Cru'. Any name is better than Quadrupel. Infinitely better than their double.

Bottle from the Otown throwdown. fogdog with the growler, bravo! Brown pour, light brown head. Sweet aroma of maple, brown sugar and yest. Flavor is very sweet with honey, maple, sugar, yeast and hints of date bread.

Pours a medium brown with a small cream colored head. The aroma is malty with a good coriander profile. This has a thick syrupy body that finishes light and citrusy. The flavor is reserved, but the alcohol is quite apparent. Other than the alcoholic burn, this is a very authenic tasting Grand Cru.

Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish. 180212

UPDATED: JAN 28, 2013 Deep ruby hue. Smooth, with lots of small bubbles and smooth lacing. Sweet alcohol nose full of mild cherries, run, chocolate and big time banana. Smooth up until the alcoholic and harsh finish, but as it warms this alcohol is covered by a smooth banana flavor. Mild, and I appreciate the subtle flavor mixtures while still liking the strong alcohol. In my experience this is the beer that improved the most as it warmed to proper temperature.

Tormenting brown rum burn and swirling dry yeast flakes...The chocolate-bearing berries are scared by the alcohol and stay in the distance...I usually expect more from this style of Belgian Strong...Thanks radiomgb!...