Bicycle Kick
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Adnams / Devil's Peak Brewing Company / Baird Brewing Co. / Cerveceria Primus / BodebrownKölsch Special Out of Production
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Score
6.53
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This Kölsch-style beer is brewed with chamomile—the national flower of Russia, where soccer fans will turn their attention this summer—and lemongrass, representative of playing turf. It also perks up the palate with effervescent carbonation, subtly-sweet malts and a kiss of spicy hops. Now available in 40 countries, score some near you.
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cheap (9607) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can from all over the world, I guess. Looks like typical lager, maybe with an ever so slight haze. Nice creamy head on this one. Refreshingly good co2. Smell is a little metallic. Yes, a good beery kick, could almost pass for a ubiquitous civilized pale lager, and I like that. Decent all round. No special attribute makes it move ahead. One world, one beer. Seems to almost have a little lemon aspect near the end. Bicycle kick? Would rather kick the Harley. Not bad in the end quite session-able and refreshing.
stevoj (18528) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can from Boise Co-op. Initial pour looks great, pale golden with creamy, fluffy head, single line of fine carbonation . Aroma is on target, grainy bready, crackers. Taste falls off a bit, a bit bland, with a weak finish.
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12oz can. 12pack for 7.99. New Belgium continues its downward spiral, gimmick after gimmick. Why you would been to add chamomile and lemongrass to a Kolsch I will never know. Luckily they are sort of restrained, and it still maintains true to style. Medium bodied, easy drinking, but unenjoyable aroma, and lacks beer tone. Flavored fermented sugar water.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 5.5
So it took six breweries to come up with the kolschiest kolsch of them all, or so the marketing would have you believe. Thing is, Bicycle Kick's a rather straightforward, no-frills brew, even with the addition of lemongrass and chamomile. Neither of the adjuncts make much of a splash--the chamomile adds a modicum of floral earthiness to the fade--and the kolsch elements, while accurate, sit comfortably within the confines of the style. It's a light, easy-drinking lager, no more, no less, grainy with hints of citrus and hops, memorable more for the effort put into creating it than for the beer itself.
superspak (10160) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, best before 9/23/2018. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemongrass, pear, red apple, chamomile, coriander, tea, light clove/peppercorn, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt, lemongrass, chamomile, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lemongrass, pear, red apple, chamomile, coriander, tea, light clove/peppercorn, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemongrass, pear, red apple, chamomile, coriander, tea, clove, peppercorn, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of pale malt, lemongrass, chamomile, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance; with zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Very clean flavors, not overly yeasty. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a delicious spiced kolsch! All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt, lemongrass, chamomile, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter/spicy/drying finish. Great balance of clean pale malt and lemongrass/chamomile spice; with restrained yeast and mild earthy hop balance. Not overwhelming on any aspect. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example as expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
New Belgium Bicycle Kick Kolsch Can picked up at CBB for about 6-700¥ including tax. Now that I know it is a spice beer I think I can enjoy it more than when I had it before on tap (Japan version). This is the original Colorado made version imported to Japan. Opaque deep gold with a fizzy soda-like eggshell white head of foam. The aroma is bready honey malts, closer to the kolsch style. The taste starts with that apple pie crust and cinnamon I had from the Baird version while this one starts with that then goes into the malty honey character with a slightly herbal lemongrass finish. Not bad.
Drake (22940) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 ounce can. Clear golden, large white head, good retention. Aroma of white bread, grassy hops, mild floral notes. Taste is pale malt, floral note, grain, green hops, dandelion. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On draught at Old Chicago. Nice collaboration beer.
Pours a clear light gold with an inch of foam. Good lacing left behind after every sip.
Smells of biscuit malt, light grassy hops.
Taste is biscuit malt, light grass, I don't get any fruity notes. Smooth drinker, could use just a tad more character.
Light body with medium carbonation.
Good overall.
bhensonb (22726) reviewed Bicycle Kick from New Belgium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours Brassy gold with a white head. Aroma of undry breadiness with a hint of herb/spice - very light hint. Med body. There’s an herb presence that’s unkolsch, but maybe an improvement. It’s bready, and actually a bit sweet. Lightly so. Bitter isn’t really in it. Still, seems an improvement over the stand kolsch bier.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
My can just says New Belgium it does not have Adnams on it. Pour is a golden with a large white head. Aroma is a nice bready cracker malt more on the dry side. Flavor is dry cracker malt with some nice flowery and herbal hops. Very easy to drink and quite refreshing. You could drink a lot of these on a warm summer day and not get bored. One of the better beers New Belgium has put out in a while.