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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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at bier thirty. Pours out a amber color topped with a white head. Nose is funky grain some light brett maybe plenty yeast and some fruit esters. Taste is more of the funky malts some light fruit notes.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2016
at 09:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Up Down. Pours a clear copper amber with a tan head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has light tart stone fruits with earthy grains and a light funk backing. Flavor has dry slightly tart stone fruit with a light funk and a bit if grain backing.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2016
at 15:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Nice hazy copper and bronze coloured body with a two centimetre tall tan head and a nice rich glow at the bottom. Aroma of funk (just like the name implies), grass, yeast, coriander seed, brett and way more yeast - nice and fragrant throughout. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive grassy, herbal and especially funky yeast flavours throughout with brett, lactic sugars and some hay very noticeable. Aftertaste shows some rich notes coupled with a lot of the funk from the brett and a lot of unfinished yeast elements, but leaves funky, complex and rich. Overall, an interesting beer that shows a lot more flavour, complexity and especially substance compared to a typical fat tire - Allagash did some magic here and it’s a nice beer to sample and well worth finding if you can get it! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Fair Lakes (Fairfax), Virginia for US$15,99/twelve pack on 16-July-2016 sampled at home in Washington on 26-July-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2016
at 01:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle. A funky, bright, funky amber Belgian Ale. It does have some brett notes of course but I’d say it isn’t a straightforward Sour ale for sure. Pleasant mouthfeel, a little thin compared to most Belgian Ales, but plleasantly medium bodied despite the deep flavors. Really expertly crafted, a nice use of yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2016
at 00:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
On Tap at Bier:Thirty hazy orange witha full sticket light tan head. Mild fruity soft brett funk aroma. Some barnyard dusty musty flavors, but muted and soft. The easily recognizable;e fat tire biscuitiness is beat down, and this is a light funky crisp ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2016
at 19:47