Lips of Faith Series: Fresh Hop India Pale Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast 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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from a trade wih cbkschubert. Pours clear amber color with off white head. Aromas of citrus and grass with some caramel. Grassy flavor with some grapefruit and caramel with moderate bitterness. Medium body with average carbonation. Thanks Craig.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2012
at 05:59
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Strong grapefruit and pine nose. Honey barely manages to break through. Crystal clear amber, thick head, nice lacing. Dry and bitter. Pine dominated flavor. Lemon zest and black pepper also present. A very nice robustly bitter IPA, not too citusy, not floral.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2012
at 07:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
22oz bomber poured into a shaker. Pours a clear dark gold with about a finger of thick white head. Aroma of pine and citrus hops. Taste is medium bitter. Lots of pine and grapefruit citrus. Medium bodied with a slick texture. Lively carbonation and a long bitter finish. Overall, very good. I would love to drink this again.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2011
at 18:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pour is a clear amber with a average white head. Aroma is a nice pine hop. Spicy and floral. Flavor is again with the pine hops with a little caramel malt. Nicely hopped IPA not much more to say.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2011
at 16:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Amazingy clear golden coloured body with a bit of a copper glow and a perfect, three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of fresh grapefruit and piney hops, a good malt presence, some alcohol notes, but a very hoppy dry note at the end - nice! Medium-bodied; Nice assertive grassy and herbal hop note with a good malt balance, some light sweetness at the end and a very puckering dry taste. Aftertaste shows a very nice fresh hop flavour, some grapefruit, some grass and a little sweetness, tucked with the alcohol flavour. Overall, a very nice freshly hopped beer that shows very well, but not to the level as most west-coast ipas. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Total Wine in Tustin, California on 06-December-2011 for US$7.99 sampled at home in Washington on 18-Decemer-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2011
at 23:27
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Location: 22 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 12/13/11,Rating # 2001, a Beer Odyssey...This one is for Douglas Southall Freeman. Also, I'm rater 101 of this beer, so multiple 01's going on here...
Aroma: The nose is clean and grassy, lots of hoppy components, with some citrus, pine, and resiny notes to it
Appearance: Clear golden-orange color, thick, creamy white head, heavy lacing, and movement in the glass
Flavor: A light citrus-grassy sweet flavor, with a light malty presence, and a crisp bitter grass/pine hop finish
Palate: It's medium (plus) bodied, has a crisp, clean, and smooth feel, soft carbonation, and a clean, dry finish
Overall Impression: This one is really met/exceeded my expectations. I put the slash in there, because I wanted good things (I'm a big fan of a good fresh IPA), and this one lived up to my fairly high hopes. When done correctly this style of beer can be that perfect crisp and refreshing beverage that I crave after a long day of work, or on a Sunday afternoon watching football, or pretty much anytime (is there ever really a bad time to drink a really good beer?), and this one was done correctly. Nice job by the New Belgium guys, I would gladly drink this one again.
Aroma: The nose is clean and grassy, lots of hoppy components, with some citrus, pine, and resiny notes to it
Appearance: Clear golden-orange color, thick, creamy white head, heavy lacing, and movement in the glass
Flavor: A light citrus-grassy sweet flavor, with a light malty presence, and a crisp bitter grass/pine hop finish
Palate: It's medium (plus) bodied, has a crisp, clean, and smooth feel, soft carbonation, and a clean, dry finish
Overall Impression: This one is really met/exceeded my expectations. I put the slash in there, because I wanted good things (I'm a big fan of a good fresh IPA), and this one lived up to my fairly high hopes. When done correctly this style of beer can be that perfect crisp and refreshing beverage that I crave after a long day of work, or on a Sunday afternoon watching football, or pretty much anytime (is there ever really a bad time to drink a really good beer?), and this one was done correctly. Nice job by the New Belgium guys, I would gladly drink this one again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2011
at 14:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pour s clear medium gold with a sticky, three-dimensional off-white head. Grapefruit and pine hop aroma. The flavor is bitter hops that start immediately and follow all the way to the finish. Dry palate. I’d like a little more malt to balance this a bit.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2011
at 16:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe in Davis, CA. Pours orange tinged gold with a creamy off-white head. The nose is so full of so many different hops. Floral is a fair description, but inadequate. Full bodied. Flavor is floral/perfume, citrus, and something like earthy/resin. The hop load is fantastic. Mild burn and lots and lots of sensory impingments. Maybe some sort of unusual fruit towards the finish. This is just great ale.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2011
at 18:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bomber. Filtered orange-tan. Respectable steady, foamy off-white head. Semi-tropical hop aroma, some orange and sweet golden malt. Really does have a nice fresh hop thing going on, very earthy. Very clean despite being close to IIPA territory. The alcohol comes through, but it is 7%, so that is acceptable. There is certainly a thick, resinous, stalky hop thing going on, like they threw the whole vine in. Has a straw bitterness that I would attribute the the fresh Amarillo hops. Certainly a World Class offering, quite well done.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2011
at 19:25
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear bright golden color, small white edge head. Shocking aroma of intense grass and pine needles. Taste is bitter straw, anise, flowers. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2011
at 16:28