New Belgium Brewing Company La Folie

La Folie

 

New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating
Score
7.77
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 18 Ticks: 218
La Folie, French for "the folly," is a beer steeped in New Belgium brewing tradition. This wood-aged, sour brown spends one to three years in big oak barrels known as foeders. And when the beer finally hits the glass, La Folie is sharp and sour, full of green apple, cherry, and plum-skin notes. Pouring a deep mahogany, the mouthfeel will get you puckering while the smooth finish will get you smiling. Not a beer for the timid, La Folie is a sour delight that will turn your tongue on its head. Find out why it's considered one of the best sour beers around.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at New Belgium - DEN. Pours murky brown with a beige head. Raisins, brown sugar, and dried fruits on the nose. Flavour has tart berries up front, some notes of raisins and other dried fruits, some gentle brown sugar notes. Moderate acidity. Nice sour brown.

Tried from Draft at New Belgium Hub - Denver International Airport (DIA) - B Concourse on 20 Feb 2026 at 03:35


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled from Giant. Red brown pour. Malts, sour patch kids and some body. Bit of wood. Pretty nice.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:07


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. The "Lips of Faith" version of this beer. Reddish brown color, with little head. Smells alot like wine. With it’s grape, raisin flavor, tastes like wine too! Actually one of the better sour ales I have had.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:14


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home, cellared this one for almost 2.5 years, this Easter Monday seemed like the day to crack this open. Cooked a chili, hosting family, why not open something from the cellar, right. Pours brown with a ruby hint and an off-white head. Nose is berries, cherry, light acetic acid, a vague malty touch. Taste is moderate to medium acidity, light funk, leather, quite dry, somewhat fruity. Light to medium bodied, it’s got a soft carbonation. Perhaps not world class, but got outstanding aspects for sure.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2025 at 09:07


9.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Dark brown pour, little off white head, that dissapeared quickly. Aroma is very complex. sour cherries, oak, grassy, dark brown sugar, wet hay, and some light coffee. The flavor is very tart, like lambic tart...........it really gives off a wicked barnyard lambic sourness. This is an incredible beer!

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:17


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Draft at the new Belgium bar in the denver airport (concourse B). Pours a deep dark purple with small off-white head that soon recedes to a fine ring. The glass they served it in is a teku which really surprised me. The aroma is big and bold with tart red fruits. The taste is pleasantly tart cherries and some mildly bitter berries. The palate is medium and the carbonation is soft. Overall: decent.

Tried from Draft on 26 Feb 2025 at 18:09


8

this whole series is very very cool. I'm loving this one.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:27


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Clear brown colour with lasting head. Aroma of old dried fruits like prunes and dried cherries. Taste has an initial chalky, minerally note. Tart but not especially vinegary. Slightly woody.

Tried on 30 Nov 2024 at 22:19


8

Tried from Draft on 13 Oct 2024 at 14:04


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Optisch rotbraun, feine Perlung, in der Nase Trauben. Im Trunk schöne Säure, sehr angenehm, dann kommt röstiges Malz durch. Spät Schokolade. Lecker.

Tried on 07 Jul 2024 at 23:30