Lips of Faith Series: Eric's Ale
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production|
Score
7.45
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Wood-Aged Sour Peach Ale
Eric s Ale, from the creative and slightly diabolical mind of brewer Eric Salazar, is the third offering in our Lips of Faith program. Lips of Faith is all about taking chances, breaking rules and being experimental kind of like being back in high school. Eric won the quarterly drink-off qualifier by correctly identifying which three beers in what percentage had been blended in his glass, earning him the right to brew whatever kind of beer he chose.
Having worked closely with our wood beer project, La Folie, Eric decided to play around with oak barrels. The result is a very drinkable sour beer hybrid with subtle peach tones and a warm, spicy finish. The aroma has pleasant hints of vanilla and tropical fruit, the wood characteristics are present but nicely muted.
Eric s Ale weighs in at 7% ABV and is best enjoyed while listening to the dulcet guitar work of Buckethead.
Eric s Ale, from the creative and slightly diabolical mind of brewer Eric Salazar, is the third offering in our Lips of Faith program. Lips of Faith is all about taking chances, breaking rules and being experimental kind of like being back in high school. Eric won the quarterly drink-off qualifier by correctly identifying which three beers in what percentage had been blended in his glass, earning him the right to brew whatever kind of beer he chose.
Having worked closely with our wood beer project, La Folie, Eric decided to play around with oak barrels. The result is a very drinkable sour beer hybrid with subtle peach tones and a warm, spicy finish. The aroma has pleasant hints of vanilla and tropical fruit, the wood characteristics are present but nicely muted.
Eric s Ale weighs in at 7% ABV and is best enjoyed while listening to the dulcet guitar work of Buckethead.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber. Aroma is SweeTarts, lacto, lemon, dust, seedy berry jam, wood. Pours hazy cantaloupe with a medium white head with good retention. Taste is tart (7/10), sweet, light wood, vanilla, light grain; finishes dry. A little thin. Tasty, though.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2015
at 23:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft 14 oz pour at Malt and Vine. Pours a cloudy peach golden color with a patchy fizz head. Sweet peach and sour funk aroma. Orange and citrus mild sour flavor with a wheat background. Nice sour kick in the finish. Overall pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jul 2015
at 19:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into signature globe glass, bottled on 6/4/2015. Pours slightly hazy deep golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense off white head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart lemon, peach, apricot, green apple, pear, hay, straw, grass, honey, wheat, cracker, oak, light white wine vinegar/funk, light vanilla, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, peaches, oak barrel, and pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of lightly tart lemon, peach, apricot, green apple, pear, hay, straw, grass, honey, wheat, cracker, oak, light white wine vinegar/funk, light vanilla, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/acidic tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, peach, apricot, green apple, pear, hay, straw, grass, honey, wheat, cracker, light vinegar/funk, light vanilla, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, peaches, oak barrel, and pale malt flavors; with a great malt/fruit/tartness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly creamy/acidic mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice blended fruit sour ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, peaches, oak barrel, and pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink with the lighter amount of acidity. This would be a great introduction sour for those that have not had one before; and is a very enjoyable offering for me as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2015
at 22:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4 oz pour on draft at ChurchKey. Hazy golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of white wine, stone fruit. Tastes of stone fruit, white wine, light tartness. Medium-light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2015
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Great balance. Just enough sour citrus and bretta. Hazy golden pour with some food lacing. Some hay. Tangy finish that tapers off in sourness. Soft carbonation. Pretty good. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2015
at 18:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber shared at Slutfest 4/25/15. Hazy brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of tart peach, funk, wood, caramel. The taste is tart peach, caramel, oak, funk. Medium bodied, low carbonation, lingering tartness.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2015
at 22:50
8/10
Tried
on 08 Jun 2015
at 21:10
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 22:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Nice crisp clear peach and apricot coloured body with hardly any head at all and not much movement. Aroma of pungent sour apples, pears, apricots, yeast, hay and the easily undisputed gueuze smell - amazing and mouth watering. Medium-bodied; Nice sour and tart apple and peach flavour with a very odd meaty, full-bodied; malty flavour that has a lot of depth. Aftertaste shows the full-bodied syrupy and dense fruity flavour. Overall, not a bad choice for beer #3300, but has a bit of an odd full-bodied, syrupy flavour right after the initial taste that takes it away from a sour ale or a gueuze like flavour. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from City Beer in San Francisco, California on 29-June-2010 for US$8.99 sampled at home in Washington on 29-Novemeber-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2011
at 21:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Denver Rare Beer Tasting. Fairly clear, light yellow orange appearance with an off white head. Funky, mildly sour, tangy lemon citrusy aroma. Moderately sour, tangy lemon, funky flavor.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2011
at 13:32