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New Belgium Skinny Dip (Loft)

New Belgium Skinny Dip (Loft)

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A Belgian Ale brewed by
New Belgium Brewing Company

Fort Collins, Colorado USA

bottled
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4322.97/5.02.97/5.0Summer4.2%24.8 Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Editor's note: in 2006, Skinny Dip replaced Loft as the name of New Belgium's low-alcohol, low-calorie summer seasonal (only minor changes in recipe; i.e. still approximately 4% ABV and spiced with Kaffir lime leaf).

Skinny Dip Description: New Belgium’s Skinny Dip is a full-bodied, figure-friendly beer perfect for the lightly attired summer months. Cascade hops frolic with kaffir lime and ample malt to create a bright, citrusy nose that’s as crisp as chilling in a mountain pond. Skinny Dip - a most revealing beverage.

Loft Description: In a category all its own, Loft delivers an uplifting zest, a taut line of hoppiness, and, from integrated wheat and barley malt, a mouthful as big as the sky. Spiced with Kaffir lime leaves.


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 kidmartinek (644), austin, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/103/513/20

May 7, 2008  
Wow! There’s nothing revealing about this beverage. Tastes like fat tire reloaded, only more palatable, thus better. Pours light amber, small 1/4 inch light tan head. Aroma of lighter bready, doughy malts and yeast. Flavor is flav-o-flav delicioso. Light dough, yeast, and minereal water, mild malt, and slighlt hop flavor. So well rounded all around it can’t be BaD? Doughy, bready lighter, finish. Drink this beer, not if, but when you are skinny dippin’.

 carruthm (253), USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/57/103/514/20
Jul 8, 2008  
short notes. clear yellow, thin head citrus nose, little malt taste and crisp finish. Nothing spectacular, but solid.


troysworktable (95), Washington, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/512/20
Jul 8, 2008  
On tap at Trackside Pizza, Puyallup, Washington. Skinny Dip arrives clear honey yellow with a thin white head. The lacing it leaves behind consists of small specks, like an ale dot-to-dot. It smells intensely of butterscotch. It is a good smell, but strange. The flavor is light. It begins with a minor bite, with a few spices in the background, that quickly turns nutty, although it is rather light. My major problem with it is that the nose and taste don’t quite match. The other is that as it warms a hidden fruitiness begins to emerge. I wish that flavor was more present from the beginning and bolder throughout.


 RCL (948), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Jul 7, 2008  
The Belgian flavor comes through a bit with the yeastyness. Lime flavor is lightly herbal and not overwhleming. Meh.


 timfoolery (279), Alabama, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Jul 7, 2008  
Bottle from BevMo. New Belgium is a good producer of beer, but this one wasn’t my favorite by a long shot. Pair that with the fact that this was is listed as a Belgian, when it’s tastes straight on lager.


 blutt59 (478), Dallas, Texas, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/510/20
Jul 6, 2008  
bottle, golden color with slight head, flavor is mostly a flabby malt, slightly sweet, finish is ok




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