La Folie
(has 8 batches)
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating|
Score
7.78
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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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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Anchorage Feb ’15 Tasting: Poured orange brown with a tan head. Aroma is a nice funk and berry jam. Taste follows with similar berry jam, woodsy and funky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2015
at 22:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A- Sour, tart, citrus, lemon, cherries, vinegar, oak. A- Reddish brown color, clear dark liquid, off white head. T- Very sour, tart, slightly sweet, lemon juice, cherries, vinegar. P- Light body, average texture, medium high carbonation, sour finish. O- Wow. This beer smells sour and tart and tastes crazy sour and tart. You start to get used to it but by that time it’s almost gone. Lots of lemon juice and vinegar with subtle notes of cherries and oak. Glad to have tried this when I did. I don’t think I would’ve liked it early on in my beer drinking days.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2015
at 23:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
pours unclear amber . Smell is sour , swaety . oak , bit of glue . Taste is sour, oak , intense, bit glue-aspect . very intense on the sour side . Rather dry .
Tried
on 07 Feb 2015
at 18:33
9/10
Sweet!! $9.10 a bottle this time around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2015
at 13:34
8/10
Tried
on 18 Dec 2014
at 19:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Almost clear deep brown liquid with ruby hue and small to medium off-white head. Aroma of light vinegar, cherries, light strawberries, lemon, apple skin and light dried fruit. Taste is dry and medium sour with notes of lemon, red berries, light wood and light vinegar. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2014
at 13:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Green Dragon, PDX, 11/11/14. Rich burgundy to chestnut brown with a decent beige covering. Nose is tarte cherries, musty, dank semi rotting woody notes, earthy, light fruit balsam tunes. Taste comprises rich oak, tarte red grape, dank, musty tones, funk, tangy and bitter red berry notes, apple core, farmyard. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, red berry rinse and semi puckerings at the close. Solid stuff.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2014
at 13:18
8/10
Tried
on 11 Nov 2014
at 19:44
8/10
2010 bottle
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2014
at 16:18
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
08.10.2014, 0,65l bottle (2013) sampled @ BBGTC tasting:
Nice slightly bubbly mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish fruity, strawberry, sugar, oak, soda powder, grass, vinegar, dried fruits, hay. Taste is dry and fresh sour, sorrel, soda powder, vinegar, grass, oak, raw rhubarb, sour unripe berries, lemon, minerals, weeds. Medium bitterness, dry sour-ish mouthfeel. Very nice.
Nice slightly bubbly mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish fruity, strawberry, sugar, oak, soda powder, grass, vinegar, dried fruits, hay. Taste is dry and fresh sour, sorrel, soda powder, vinegar, grass, oak, raw rhubarb, sour unripe berries, lemon, minerals, weeds. Medium bitterness, dry sour-ish mouthfeel. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2014
at 08:08