New Belgium Springboard Ale

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

Bottle courtesy Brett and Hannah. Poured a golden color with a mediocre head, subpar lacing. The aroma was wheaty with a light fruity ester type smell. The flavor was like a light blonde ale with some berry type fruit flavors and light spice. Spicing was far from overdone, but this beer was at the same time unexciting. Would drink another, but not go back for it. Thanks, Brett and Hannah, for the opportunity on this one!

12oz bottle-A cloudy golden body with a nice big white head. Aroma of berries, hops, and grains. Taste of sweetness, herbs, dryness, and then more sweetness. Has a different tate. Not bad but not good. Taste got better when warmer.

12 oz bottle. Poured a hazy yellow color. Head was bubbly and white with decent lacing. Smelled of yeasty bread dough and light grassy hops. Flavor was similar with a dry sprucy finish. Interesting.

Draft. My suspicion is that this tastes mauch better collder and on draft than from the bottle. It seems that the flavors of ginger and coriander could otherwise be overpowering. It starts out refreshing but the spices build up as you go and at the end it loses some of its appeal. I think this one is a bit overspiced, seems like a hybrid between a witbeer and a saison.

Bottle: Yellowish straw, slight haze, moderate to large frothy white head, fairly decent lacing.   Non-descript spice on the nose, at least one that I can’t identify.   Chinese herbs maybe?   Otherwise straw, oats, and cereal.   Semi-sweet malt start, light spices, straw, a little dry and musty on the backside.   Weird concoction this is.   Very mealy in its flavor.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Not bad, but I must say a bit different.   Finishes with the aformentioned spices and strong oat/straw emphasis.   Meh...

Pours a hazy yellow color with a decent white head. Grassy aroma with a hint of malt. Some citrus as well. Malty spice flavor with a lemon zest kick to it. Easy beer to drink, and goes down fairly smoothly.

12oz bottle. Hazy yellow, with a thick white head initially, which dissolves into a small floating island of foam. delicate aroma of malt, yeast, grass, and a bit of lime. Very sweet malty flavor, a bit cloying. Finishes with a bitter orange rind flavor which coats the tongue.

From a distinctive New Belgium 12 oz. bottle with a blurb and best before date on the right side of label, briefly refrigerated, served in a New Belgium tulip glass. Poured a clear yellowish, lightly orangey golden with a large foamy, bubbly topped white head that slowly settled into a thin creamy lacing, minimal amount of laced sticking. Aromas of sweet oats and grainy malts, lightly earthy, spicy hops, mild herbs and a soft fruitiness, and a musty bread yeastiness. Steady, even medium carbonation, not over carbonated, and a crisp, dry, creamy smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel. Tastes of grassy grain, a very light oats sweetness, a mild pear with lemons fruitiness, a soft earthy, spicy bitterness, a very discreet medicinal herbalness, some musty bread towards the end and a dry yeasty, malty, with a soft earthiness, finish. A passable seasonal, an easy drinkability, but this makes me miss the Biere de Mars ale, this is an inadequate replacement to that spring seasonal from New Belgium.