Lips of Faith Series: Super India Pale Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Alpine Beer CompanyIPA - Imperial / Double Series Out of Production
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Score
7.35
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This is a collaboration with Alpine Beer Company. Amarillo, Columbus, Simcoe and Centennial hops bring bitterness to the forefront, balanced with Pale, C-80 and Carapils malts. The tropical and citrus tones of the American hops dominate the flavor of the copper-colored beer.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Draft - As a good friend would say ’juicy’, absurd amount of fruits with hints of mandarin. A bit of spice to contrast the sweetness on the nose. Peppery to start in the taste leading to full on pine and more of the mandarin. The complexity of this beer is amazing, and has to be one of the best I have had in some time.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Dec 2012
at 10:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
22 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is pine and grapefruity hoppy. Bitter, grapefruity, toasted malty and pine hops. Bitter, dry and almost herbal. Dry and bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2012
at 11:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A golden beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of citrusy hops, malt, and cats piss. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, lemons, peaches, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2012
at 08:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of Doodler. Pours golden with a slight haze and a white head. Super tight hoppy nose with biscuity malts. Rich body, a sweet fruitiness, juicy, citrusy hops - peachy too. Massive bitterness. 221112
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2012
at 08:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Mostly clear medium gold body under a tall, sticky, long lasting off-white head. Light pine and citrus hop aroma. The flavor is lightly sweet, no real hops going on here at all. Somewhat thin and uninteresting.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2012
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Summer fruit and grapefruit aroma. Summer fruit and grapefruit flavor with caramel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Summer fruit and grapefruit linger with caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2012
at 09:03
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
OK, drank a shit ton of this on draft at Taste Of Tops in Tempe. It was irresistible. I’m only human, right? It was filled into a short tulip glass (on several occasions) with a clear copper body and thick gold edges supporting a semi firm light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up tangelo citrus and rich tropical mango fruit like notes with resiny grassiness here and there too. The taste is similar with vibrant rich tangelo, clementine citrus and mango-y tropical fruity notes that are infused with loads of hop flavor and grow into resiny to grassy hop bitterness from time to time. Wonderful brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Oct 2012
at 19:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery during GABF weekend
Appearance: Clear golden with a big frothy white head and good lacing
Aroma: Grapefruit and citrus
Taste: Grapefruit and pine resin
Very nice and smooth, easy drinking.
Appearance: Clear golden with a big frothy white head and good lacing
Aroma: Grapefruit and citrus
Taste: Grapefruit and pine resin
Very nice and smooth, easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2012
at 14:44
2/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2012
at 10:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Location: 22 oz bottle from State Line, 10/4/12
Aroma: The nose is fresh and hoppy with grapefruit, mango, other citrus, peach, and pine notes
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear golden-orange color with a frothy white head and medium lace
Flavor: It is medium-plus sweet, medium-heavy bitter, and with a slight alcohol flavor in the late palate
Palate: The body is medium, with a creamy feel, a little stickiness, good drinkability, and a dry finish
Overall Impression: This one was a very solid West Coast style IIPA. I really enjoyed it, and thought it was a really just a quality 4-level across-the-board type of beer. I expected good stuff from an Alpine/New Belgium collaboration, and though it was an absolute top-of-style offering, I was certainly not disappointed.
Aroma: The nose is fresh and hoppy with grapefruit, mango, other citrus, peach, and pine notes
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear golden-orange color with a frothy white head and medium lace
Flavor: It is medium-plus sweet, medium-heavy bitter, and with a slight alcohol flavor in the late palate
Palate: The body is medium, with a creamy feel, a little stickiness, good drinkability, and a dry finish
Overall Impression: This one was a very solid West Coast style IIPA. I really enjoyed it, and thought it was a really just a quality 4-level across-the-board type of beer. I expected good stuff from an Alpine/New Belgium collaboration, and though it was an absolute top-of-style offering, I was certainly not disappointed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2012
at 16:31