Fat Tire & Friends: Fat Funk Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Allagash Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production
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Score
6.90
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Who wants the funk? Our New England friends at Allagash brought it, taking Fat Tire back to its Belgian roots with a De Dolle House Belgian yeast strain that adds classic pear, banana, and spice to Fat Tire's malty goodness. They then bottle-conditioned the beer with Brettanomyces Allagagensis for an extra spicy finish. Get your funk on.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright copper color with an enormous foamy orange-white head that towered over the glass, lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was tart, chalky and somewhat fruity. The flavor was dry, tart, perfumey and chalky. Light body and massively overcarbonated. Long finish. Not good at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 19:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nice Fat Tire remix, adding some hefe-style complexity to the beer’s usual middle-of-the-road blandness. Subtle but pleasing bananaclove sweetness brings out a more pronounced bitterness on the back end, and the barnyard funk in the fade takes the brew in a fascinating direction. Amazing how hanging out with more distinguished friends can improve your profile.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2016
at 12:09
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from West Side. Pours a light copper with a finger of foam that last throughout. Nice funky barnyard notes with some grassy hops, light orange. Bone dry on the palate with more barnyard, horse blanket, orange blossoms, earth. Great carbonation throughout. Yep, like a Tarras Boulba / Orval hybrid with the abv somewhere between.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2016
at 11:22
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
12 ounce bottle, 6/27/16. Hazy amber, large foamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of pale malt, brett, funk, a bit of citrus. The taste is brett, yeast, banana, citrus, pale malt. Thin-medium bodied, well balanced, low carbonation. The best, and the biggest transformation of any of the beers (that is NOT meant to be a knock on Fat Tire). Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2016
at 01:01
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. A- Barnyard, funk, oranges, lemon, subtle banana, spice. A- Orange color, hazy liquid, off white head. T- Funky, grass, musty, manure, yeasty. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, funky finish. O- This is funky, there are no two buts about it. Tons of barnyard on the nose and the taste. Not even sure how barnyard can be a taste but it is. Despite how it may sound, it is drinkable and perhaps the best of the Fat Tire collabs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2016
at 17:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz bottle courtesy of Matt. Thanks! This has a best by date on it, but I can’t read what it says. Oh well, seems all good to me. Burnt orange pour with a rocky fizz head. Aroma is a unique combination of spice and funk. Flavor is mild spice, and even more mild sweetness. Pear fruit with a good funk. High carb. Overall, a pleasant beer here. Enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2016
at 23:35