Tart Lychee
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.20
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According to Lauren, the imaginator of this pucker-pleasing ale, Lychee fruit is so insanely sweet and flavorful you almost can’t stand it alone. Sour to the rescue! Tart Lychee is brewed with exotic lychee fruit and cinnamon, and then blended with sour Felix from our wood cellar for a citrusy, tropical sip that attacks with an invigorating tart bite. Explore the tropics, but brace for the wild.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 5
Overall 6.5
Tip Tap draught, 9/5/26.
Cinnamon and lychee nose is big and rich. Not getting any oak. Appley. Very low acidity.
Wow much more dry than expected. Still not getting oak. Apple again, with lots of cinnamon flavor but no astringency. Weird stuff. A bit too thin. But at least it's not sweet/syrupy/artificial.
Cinnamon and lychee nose is big and rich. Not getting any oak. Appley. Very low acidity.
Wow much more dry than expected. Still not getting oak. Apple again, with lots of cinnamon flavor but no astringency. Weird stuff. A bit too thin. But at least it's not sweet/syrupy/artificial.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Tip Tap Room
on 05 Sep 2026
at 17:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy yellow pour, large white head. Big fresh lemon, and melon Aroma, fresh melon rind, honeydew and some nice light malts and yeast with some light funk. Soft mouth feel and a very soft carb. Finish is tart and funky, with more melon, and some citrus pith. Not as sour as I expected but still quite good, and dangerously drinkable for 7.5.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fairly hazy golden and peach coloured body with a thinnish off-white head that fades fast and leaves a small lace on top - quite nice. Aroma of tart berries, light grass, flowers, peaches, apricots and a dose of pears with some grass and floral notes as well - strong with a nice tart note. Light-bodied; Strong grassy and herbal flavour shows up front with a soft but deep tart, soured fruit flavour with the pear, apple, apricot, peach and perhaps lychee (they are too mild to really know) flavours domiante with some very light and subdued malts, wheat and a hint of flowers and dry malts on the end. Aftertaste shows some funky yeast, a light breadiness, a good deal of sweetness and an overwhelming soured and tart fruit flavour in a great complex finish with some oakyness and a good robust quality throughout. Overall, a nice and dry beer with a bunch of fruity notes, complex soured, tart flavours and an easy-drinking yet smooth yeasty finish - good all the way around and while lychee is hard to detect in general, the apricot, peach and apple notes are strong. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 24-October-2020 for US$4,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 17-January-2021.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jan 2021
at 07:54