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Lips Of Faith - Dark Kriek
New Belgium Brewing Company
- From:
- New Belgium Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 15.08%
- Reviews:
- 96
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 14, 2014
- Added:
- Jan 27, 2009
- Wants:
- 16
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Ratings by aforbes10:
Reviewed by aforbes10 from Iowa
3.65/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.65/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottle from the Davis Co-Op shared with my wife on valentine's day. Pours a dark brown with excellent clarity and a short, unstable head. Laces fairly cleanly. Vague cherry odor with similarly vague chocolate in there too. Flavor is mildly tart cherries on a chocolate malt base. Yeasty, biscuity notes that i recognize as common to most N.B. beers. Cherry tartness increases somewhat but doesn't approach sour...much more of a sweet beer than any kind of lambic. Medium bodied. Drinks well. Nothing to call home about but nice to sit and enjoy after dinner.
Feb 24, 2009More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JAXSON from Pennsylvania
3.26/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.26/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
2009 rate.
Bottle. Pours a clear dark cherry red with a frothy head. Nose is sweet and sour, red berries, faded hops, slightly medicinal. Collage of sweet and sour dominates this, which I like, but there's a little too much sweet and the cherry flavor is a bit strange. I can't stand the slightest bit of medicinal cherry flavor in a beer, this borders on it. Not bad, just alright, not really my thing.
Dec 24, 2010Bottle. Pours a clear dark cherry red with a frothy head. Nose is sweet and sour, red berries, faded hops, slightly medicinal. Collage of sweet and sour dominates this, which I like, but there's a little too much sweet and the cherry flavor is a bit strange. I can't stand the slightest bit of medicinal cherry flavor in a beer, this borders on it. Not bad, just alright, not really my thing.
Reviewed by katan from Colorado
4.13/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
4.13/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
22 oz into a glass. going to the cellar for one.
A - Pours a deep dark brown color with some amber highlights. Strong head formation, brownish in color - quickly breaks down to a film. Appears lightly carbonated.
S - Combination of fruits and yeast. I get quite a bit of cherry and other fresh fruits, but then it is balanced by a very earthy brett and wild yeast. Tobacco, leather come to mind.
T - Starts off lightly malty, brown ale like with some crystal malts. The brett yeast comes in big time, very wild, very earthy - deep. The cherries and the sewetness come in later, bringing the beer back into balance. Finishes with a strong sour fruit flavor and just a hint of wood tannins.
M - Moderate body, strong carbonation. Very well built for a beer of this style. Let the yeast run. Finishes somewhat cloying and sweet, but right on the center of the tongue the brett yeast brings some bitter balance.
D - A very complex ale - I can only see drinking one of them. But the flavors are so unique that in itself is very drinkable. ABV will sneak up on you. Can be filling, but thats okay for a slow sipper like this one.
A very unique beer. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Dec 21, 2010A - Pours a deep dark brown color with some amber highlights. Strong head formation, brownish in color - quickly breaks down to a film. Appears lightly carbonated.
S - Combination of fruits and yeast. I get quite a bit of cherry and other fresh fruits, but then it is balanced by a very earthy brett and wild yeast. Tobacco, leather come to mind.
T - Starts off lightly malty, brown ale like with some crystal malts. The brett yeast comes in big time, very wild, very earthy - deep. The cherries and the sewetness come in later, bringing the beer back into balance. Finishes with a strong sour fruit flavor and just a hint of wood tannins.
M - Moderate body, strong carbonation. Very well built for a beer of this style. Let the yeast run. Finishes somewhat cloying and sweet, but right on the center of the tongue the brett yeast brings some bitter balance.
D - A very complex ale - I can only see drinking one of them. But the flavors are so unique that in itself is very drinkable. ABV will sneak up on you. Can be filling, but thats okay for a slow sipper like this one.
A very unique beer. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Lips Of Faith - Dark Kriek from New Belgium Brewing Company
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
113 ratings
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