Love (Foeder #3)
New Belgium Brewing Company

 

Poured at Stone Sour Fest #1 on 7/19/09.

 

 

 

 

 

From notes when I was at Toronado SF a while back. Pours a hazy orange coloe with a small white head that disappears almost instantly. Scent at first was "this smells like Le Terrior without the dry hopping". Man this thing smells sour! A good amount of vinegar with some apricot and citrus. A hint of wood. Taste is SOUR! It does somewhat remind me of a hopless Le Terrior for some reason. It could be that I was drinking so much of that beer around that time. A good amount of acidity with some apricot and peaches. Nice woody notes as well. Just a tiny bit of citrus with some nice funk. Mouthfeel is wonderfully carbonated and puckering. Drinkability is high. Overall, this beer is fantastic. I wish they would give it a name and bottle it.

 

On tap into a small wine glass. Beer pours a dark orange, copper, with a small amount of bubbly head. Left a good amount of lacing as I drank from the glass, with the small amount of carbonation feeding a film of head and a few bubbles.

Nose was mainly stone fruits, over ripe nectarines, apricots, sour plums and skins, vinegar, and a dark spirit like rum.

Taste was good, very fruity upfront with peaches, nectarines and apricots and a bit of their skins and pits providing tartness and earthiness. Heavy ethanol like flavor though, even with a relatively low abv, but not overwhelming.

Medium body with a tickling sensation on the tongue from the carbonation, but somewhat syrupy as a result. Alcohol in the taste, but not really any feeling of burn when drinking it. Pretty interesting beer.

Brewvial best in show! I easily drank my entrance fee worth in the love at brewvival. By the end we were blending it with la follie. Hazy orange pour with a thin head. Aroma is cherry, lactic and lemon. This stuff is cantillon sour which is always nice. Lemon, cherry pit, oaky tannins,funk, leather, earthiness and lactic. Really well balanced, super sour and easy to drink. I hope i'll get to drink this again some day

Tasted on draft at Lush CBC event. Pours pale brown-orange with essentially no head. Nose is sour with green apple, some cereal, and brett funk. Flavors are super tart sour with some rubber, green apple, and vinegar. Carbonation is very lively with a medium body and a long finish. This is a great sour, and displays some of the best New Belgium has to offer.

A: Nright orange color, not like glowing but orangish with good carbonation and a nice white head

S: Tart, citrus, vinegar and wood

T: Big tartness upfront, vinegar and citrus whirling around. Wood hanging out too

M: Tart, funky, medium bodied, little bit of booze and citrus on the palate

D: Its a wild ale, so try it. Good

02.07.10 at Toronado

A: tawny, light brown, like murky apricot juice with no head. Luckily, appearances are deceiving, because this didn't look great.

S: right away, full-on brett

T: nice and tart, with what seems like hibiscus flavors and some stone fruit (maybe it IS apricot)

M: stinging with sourness and carbonation upfront, but really mellows out into something smooth

I love Love!

On-tap at Brewvival - I'm not sure if it's this or the "Love (Barrel 34)" so I'll go with the name as printed at the festival.

Pours a hazy golden-orange color with a thin white head. The head recedes into a wispy layer on top leaving solid lacing.

Smells of tart fruits - tropical fruits to lemon to orange - and vinegar. The tartness is just short of being over the top and is great.

Tastes similar to how it smells. Robust fruit flavors that are distinguishable despite the large amount of tartness associated with each. Earthy flavors come in to calm things down a bit midway through the sip however the fruit flavors still manage to carry through to a decidedly tart ending.

Mouthfeel is good. It's got a nice thickness with active carbonation.

Drinkability is very good. I finished my glass (and a few more) absurdly quickly.

Overall this beer stood up to the best of Belgium (or anywhere else for that matter). Certainly one of the top sours I've had that were produced in the US. Well worth a shot if you see it on.

Served on tap at Toronado in a six ounce glass.

Possibly the best blend of funky tartness and vinegary Flanders. It has super bold crisp tartness up front and the Flanders vinegar come is on the back side. It looks like a Flanders with a deep red body. It blows both La Folie and La Terroir out of the water. I drank it next to Cable Car and it easily held it's own.

I drank this on tap at the Map Room into a tulip.

The beer is a hazy light orange with a decent white head and good lacing.

The aroma is just tart bitter wood. The wood really shows off.

The taste is very woody not as much tart as hoped.

The feel is ok, decent drinkablilty.

So-so wild ale, nothing special, the wood kinda kills it.

On tap at Sheffield's. Poured into a New Belgium globe tulip.

This beer is a hazy orange honey color with a thin layer of white bubbles. The layer thins and leaves a small bubbly collar.

Those nose is very tart apple cider vinegar, mango, peach, apricot, wet wood, some funk. It's really promising!

The first sip gives me sour peaches, iced tea with tons of lemon juice, some woody notes, lot's of floral/herbal sour notes that linger around. It finishes a little dry, but there's an acidic note that sticks around until the next sip. It's very refreshing and a little warming.

Mouthfeel is medium body with some gritty low carbonation.

An excellent sour beer that I've been drinking for a week now. I can only have one or two in a sitting, but I will be really bummed when this keg kicks.

On-tap at Beachwood BBQ,

A: Pours a lightly hazy orange with a small cap of bubbles.

S: Stone fruit, with an intriguing pumpkin note.

T: Mango and apricot dominate the palate, strong acidity.

M: Big acid, crisp, smooth carbonation, medium-bodied.

D: Good stuff, maybe in the end though I didn't like it as much as the other stuff I tried that day. Definitely worth a taste though if available.

On tap at Brouwers, served in a snifter.

Pours a hazy orange/golden, some reddish highlights, thick white head forms, settles down to a thick ring, some lace spots stick, looks good. Smell is wow, crazy acidic, vinegar, lemons, charred wood, lightly fruity, oak, crazy sour, blasts the nostrils in a good way. Taste is great too, very acidic and insanely sour, musty, some fruit, charred wood, touch of oak/vanilla, more sour fruit, lemony and acidic, vinegar, very good. Mouthfeel is light bodied with medium carbonation, crazy acidic and sour, awesome stuff. Wow, this is Cantillon sour. Probably the sourest American Wild I've had, this stuff was awesome.