Lips of Faith Series: Fresh Hop India Pale Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Series Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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A truckload of fresh hops on a midnight run from Washington State to Northern Colorado made it to our kettles just in time. Fresh Hop IPA is a citrus punch of the green stuff: Amarillo, Centennial and Cascade hops straight off the vine. This brazen and deliciously bitter IPA pours deeply golden with the slight haze of a really hoppy beer. The fresh hops poke you right in the nose and the liquid hits your tongue with a sharp blast, finishing light and dry. This is the hop harvest, in a glass, just for you.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Tried
on 01 Feb 2020
at 04:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a copper color ale with a nice large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma consists of fresh green hoppy notes with light citrus undertone sis quiet pleasant. Taste is also dominated by fresh green hops notes with light citrus notes and dry caramel malt is barely detectable. Bitterness is present but well balanced. Body is average for style with good carbonation. Not earth shattering but well brewed for what it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 10:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Steins Beer Garden at Mountain View. Colour is clear light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, piney, hops and malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2013
at 04:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Max’s Taphouse, Baltimore - 22/05/12. Clear golden with a foamy off-white head. Big citrus nose, grapefruit, pine, grass. Taste follows nose perhpas lacking a bit of malt? Medium bodied with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2012
at 12:17
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden with a medium, foamy off-white head - medium retention. Aroma of grapefruity hops, toasted hazelnuts, with a very toffee malt backbone. Flavour of floral and citrusy hops, some light peach-like fruit, bitter grapefruit notes, and biscuity, caramel malt backing. Not sure if I would guess this was fresh hopped, maybe somewhere in between fresh and dry. Nevertheless, a well-made, well-balanced, flavourful IPA. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2012
at 18:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
This beer pours a clear orange-gold color with a medium foamy white head that burns away steadily. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of hops, pine and malt. Medium body with a piney hops character and notes of sweet malt and fruit. The finish is moderately bitter with a piney hops aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 31 May 2012
at 20:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bomber pours clear light copper with gold hues and full smooth near tight off white head. The aroma offers up sort of citrus tangelo, some mango and some peach mixing with mild levels of spicy Belgian yeastiness. I also get other fruit notes like red apple and kiwi. The taste has a classic even mix of Belgian spicy yeast and various citrus hop notes. This is crisp and leaves a nice spicy Belgo yeast to citrus hoppiness lingering deep into the after taste.
Tried
on 20 May 2012
at 19:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap 1702, pours light copper big white head. Dank and pine aroma. Well balanced flavors of dried grass, toast and pine bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Mar 2012
at 18:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ New Belgium Taproom. A stop on grand tour of Fort Collins breweries and bars with Tim, Aaron and Armin, Thanks !! Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma is malty, lots of fresh floral and citrussly hops. Taste is malt, toast, fresh floral hops, citrus, grapefruit, pine. Thin to medium body, average carbonation. Nice fresh aroma and flavor, but could go with a little more body overall. 250212
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2012
at 21:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 22oz. Meh, a little generic ipa. Weak nose and a little lame on the palate. Seems new Belgium is the in between macro and craft beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2012
at 19:43