New Belgium Lips of Faith - Kick

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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A lightly sour aroma; interesting that the cranberries totally dominates the pumpkins. How to describe this - some definite tart notes, really more than sour. Some pumpkin comes out real late in the aroma. This is good, but not really an excellent sharing beer. Weird. Really grows on you late.

Pretty good, accessible sour fruit beer. Served with an average sized very frothy, off-white head that slowly settled to a light cover which lasted all the way down and plenty of lace. Color is a clear amber with lots of bubble trails. Aroma is fruity sour and fresh. Flavor’s like nose with the Brett and carbonation up front with fruit right behind and taming it down along with slight bitter. Body is relatively soft for a sour beer and carbonation is spot on. Finish is like flavor, slightly long and fairly drinkable.

Really good. It’s a blend of a sour and barrel aged (pale?) ale, which lends itself to drinkability. The aroma is nice... floral and fruity, tart as well. Has a touch of cloudiness and a pumpkin hue. The flavour is pleasant, filled with berries and maybe a touch of pumpkin, and is somewhat reminiscent of a cider A great fall ale!

22 oz. bottle- Pours cloudy golden with a nice four finger head, Aroma is tart, which is nice, cranberry and apple also come through. The flavor is very tart, nice, I want a good sour ale, and cranberry only adds to the hype, nice and interesting. Body is a full mouthfeel, nice beer, maybe not as good as the la folie, but pretty damn good, so shut the fuck up and just drink up, you little bitches!

Pretty good. A nearly clear amber color, sour, very detectable cranberry taste and notes of pumpkin. A beer for a sunny fall day, surrounded by orange leaves.

Golden brown pour, fruity aroma. I only bought this because it was the New Belgium release in the area, so I bought them all. I hate pumpkin beers. But this was great. A light body, but full flavored ale. It’s wonderfully zingy and tart and has a moderate cranberry flavor. I can’t say I got very much pumpkin flavor in it...and no goofy spicing.

Flavor is tart, close to a Sour Ale, but it is from the fruit. A complex flavor profile, complicated from the use of a barrel. At only 25% barrel aged ale it leads to a dominating character to the beer only to be seconded by the use of fruit and squash. A light lemon citrus - lactic character to the finish is balanced out by the sweetness of the overall beer. The complexity makes this perhaps the second best New Belgium brew I’ve had to a close La Folie! I cannot wait to have this brew again.

22oz bottle purchased for $6, not a bad price. Clear light orange color and not much head. Smells sour with a hi t of funk and just the slightest touch of cranberry. The taste was mostly sour ale and reminded me a lot of the sourness in Eric’s Ale and Le Terroir, maybe it’s the yeast. This was a great sour beer value and I’d definitely purchase this again if I saw it. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-08-2011 20:20:12

Dark gold with big, foamy, white head / Tart, floral, lemony nose / Medium body, tart and sour, some sweetness, with good malts and finish / Elegant, lightly cooked, flavors of lemon, cranberry, pumpkin, resin, and straw / Would like flavors to be a little brighter, but well done.

Bottle. Very light colored beer, two shades lighter orange than I would’ve anticipated. The initial aroma right away tells you this will be a sweet one, and it delivers. The cranberry aspect plays center stage, with a tight tart, but drinkable essence. The pumpkin plays second fiddle, but nicely. Very nice, and a different take on a fall beer. (#4364, 11/26/2011)