Slow Ride
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.77
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Kicking back and relaxing with a session beer requires little more than a couch, some free time, and a few pals. Slow Ride Session IPA is up for this easy-going challenge, starting with a pour of sheened gold and plenty of fluffy, white foam. A blend of seven hop varieties, led by exotic Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin, twist together brilliant tropical scents of melon, peach, lime and grapefruit for a vividly fruity aroma. The flavor mirrors the aroma, while balancing a malty-sweet yet clean start and hoppy bitterness in the back. Light bodied and extra quaffable, Slow Ride Session IPA brings the finish line to you.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle purchased as a single at King’s Liquor in Olathe, Kansas. Enjoy by 03MAY15. The pour is a clear golden with a ½ inch white head that falls with decent lacing. The aroma is mango fruit hop citrus, along with a bit of a mild garlic vegetable note, bit of sweet cracker malt under that. The taste is the hops right away, the tropical fruit, the garlic, bitter, some resin and a minimal malt backbone. Fruit lingers in the finish. The palate is light to thin bodied, active carbonation and the bitter fruit finish. Didn’t fully come together for me, though certainly easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2015
at 18:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Filtered orange tan body. Frothy white head. Pleasant tropical fruit tinged hops. Hyper clean golden malt backdrop. A really nice Session IPA. There is some hop depth, but never any pine or syrupy resin. A really well done beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2015
at 21:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The point of a session IPA is to be easy drinking. This does that. Light citrus and hops and easy drinking without much character. Bottle at a slick rick concert. Word to Ricky D the Ruler.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2015
at 20:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 4/19/2015. Pours slightly hazy bright golden color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, passion fruit, lemon zest, orange peel, light pine, floral, grass, light honey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of bright citrus/tropical hops and light-moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, passion fruit, lemon zest, orange peel, light pine, floral, grass, light honey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Fair amount of pine/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, passion fruit, lemon/orange zest, light pine, light honey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a god bit. Damn nice complexity and balance of bright citrus/tropical hops and light-moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Good hop flavor robustness as well; does not feel watery even with the lighter malt presence. Medium carbonation and light-medium bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and fairly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a damn nice session IPA. All around great complexity and balance of bright citrus/tropical hops and light-moderate pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2015
at 20:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear golden with a large foamy white head. Good head retention. Aroma of citrus, tropical hops and pale malt. The taste is tropical, citrus, hops, a mild tinny note, pale malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2015
at 20:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Clear golden yellow color, thick creamy white head. Nice aroma of tropical fruit and earthy pine. Taste is fruity, light bread. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jan 2015
at 17:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
12 oz bottle. Aroma is passion fruit, bread, dirty caramel malt. Pours clear deep gold with a medium collapsing white head; laces the glass a little. Taste is candy sweet, fruity hops, grain; finishes lightly bitter. Nice creamy mouthfeel, finely carbonated, light body; perfect palate for style. Although the aroma is kind of off-putting, this is still a pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2015
at 19:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ home picked up in a mixer sixer at Wilbur’s Fort Collins. Pours a clear golden appearance with a long lasting, cream colored head. There’s a little dankness, onion, and garlic in the nose but mostly, it’s melon, apricot, lime, and citrus. Medium light body. Low sweetness. Moderate bitterness. Easily chuggable with pears/melons along with a hop spiciness. Not fucken bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2015
at 18:04
7/10
Tried
on 17 Jan 2015
at 13:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Clear pale gold colour, impressive head of foam and lacing.
Smells very much of pine, some grass, some salt like character.
The pine stands out but it’s also lightly fruit and lightly spicy. Full flavoured for the lower abv.
Not too thin of a mouthfeel here. Good IPA.
Smells very much of pine, some grass, some salt like character.
The pine stands out but it’s also lightly fruit and lightly spicy. Full flavoured for the lower abv.
Not too thin of a mouthfeel here. Good IPA.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2015
at 16:13