New Belgium Love - Apple Whiskey Barrel

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pours a rich dark brown with no head. Aroma of tart fruit, and lacto. Taste is tart, fruity and acidic. Unbelievably flavorful. Lightly carbonated. So good! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

growler thanks adam. Pours dark red wh head nose big apple peels cloves, funk, flavors are sweet apple sour vinegar, tart and puckering, though to drink,

Shared with Chicago crew. This got much better marks than the peach. Similar to La Folie in the aroma with some fuller caramel apple. Apple in flavor is light, some caramel, fairly sweet. Nice carbonation, sparkling.

New Belgium love apple whiskey version. 64oz growler thanks again to Adam for bringing this over to share... Aroma contains a big acidic vinegar presence. Sour apple cherry based profile with a strong sour presence overall. Solid... Flavors are a consistent continuation of the same with sour apple and cherry acidic nature. Slighty acetone in nature but not overwhelming in any way. Medium bodied with quite adequate carbonation. Solid and smoother overall than peach with cleaner flavors and contained more of the apple fruit essence moreso than it’s peach counterpart. 8/4/8/4/16

Growler sent up by phaleslu. Thanks, Peter! You rock! Pours a nice dark brownish pour, with some reddish hints, good haze and glow with lighter edges. Aromas are sour apples, touches of oak, and touches of buttery oak with touches of whiskey. Fresh red apple is sweet too, sour and sweet, an interesting beer. Touches of lactic acid, wet and sweeter oak elements. Initial is sour apples up front, green apples are sour and tart, with caramel, touches of butterscotch, toffee, wet oak and vanilla. Really nice with sour apples and some caramel apples showing up, wet oak. Backend really grows sour apples in a wave with lactic acid, wet oak, some acidity and lemons. Really a dominant sour apple grows on the palate, with carmel apples sneaking in to provide touches of sweetness, wet oak. Get some of the Oscar darker blend with sour cherry like La Folie influences, with good healthy acidity and great sourness that envelopes the palate, but the sweet caramel apple essence keeps it honest and tries to balance. Still, a growing wave of sour apples and lemons, moving into wet oak, barrel presence, touches of whiskey stick way to the back of the throat and palate. This is really nice. It would be hard to judge if this was better than Blackberry as we didn’t have it side-by-side, but it’s a top notch sour. I’d probably give the edge to Blackberry still.

Growler thanks to a very generous BA. Pours with a hazed amber-red body with a small white head. Aromas of funk, red wine, pedio, suntan lotion. A huge brett funk, light acetic notes. Big and deep malt bill with some caramel. Light oak tannin notes. Hint of tart apple. Flavors are deep and rich. Acidic, vinegar, horseblanket, light acetone, red wine, brett. Oak notes, tannins. Mouth puckering. Rich malt flavors. A very nice Flemish Red like beer. Lively bubbles, dry, tannins, mouth puckering with lingering acidity. Tasty.

Draft at The Bridge, tried side-by-side with the Peach and Blackberry Barrel versions. Pours a deep, plum-tinted amber color with a small off-white head that settles into a ring. Aroma of tart apples and blackberries, lemon juice, oaky funk, lactic acid, and a nice backing of vanilla and bourbon. Flavor is a near-perfect balance of berry fruits, apples, lemon juice, oak, vanilla, bourbon, caramel, a bit of balsamic, and grapes. Medium-bodied, with a tart, juicy mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Awesome sour, and definitely my favorite of the three special ones on tap that night.

On tap at the bridge. This beer pours amber with a light white head. Aroma is whiskey, apple and oak. Flavor is pretty sour to start off with. balanced out by the apple. Overall a good beer.

On tap @ Star Bar. A big thanks to notalush for tipping me off to this rare tapping at this dive shithole. Hazy orange appearance with a small off white head. Lacto sour, oaky, apple, light bourbon nose. Initially an apple flavor followed by an intense acetic acid sourness with a touch of whiskey but the sourness is forefront. Very tangy, apple-citrusy flavor and finish. The sour suck is still in my mouth 30 minutes later. Pretty interesting beer. Thanks again lush!

Tap at Star Bar - quite nice, this - picked up a lot of color from the whiskey barrel - highly acetic at first, tasting quite like La Folie - then, the apple whiskey settles in, tasting surprisingly little like liquor, adding only a semi- sweet green apple flavor that compliments the acetic notes - oak smooths things out on the tail end, as a light sweetness from the malt breaks through slightly - yea, I dig it.