New Belgium Brewing

Commercial Brewery | Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 60 (logged 112 times)
New Belgium / Firestone Walker Fat Hoppy Ale: 67 (logged 1 time)
Amber / Red Ale
New Belgium 1554 Enlightened Black Ale: 67 (logged 2 times)
Belgian Dark Ale
New Belgium Abbey Belgian Style Ale: 71 (logged 4 times)
Belgian Dubbel Ale
New Belgium Accumulation White IPA: 58 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener Lager: 65 (logged 5 times)
Czech Pilsner
New Belgium Dominga Mimosa Sour: 63 (logged 2 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
New Belgium Fat Tire Amber Ale: 66 (logged 12 times)
Amber / Red Ale
New Belgium Fat Tire Belgian White: 58 (logged 1 time)
Witbier
New Belgium Frambozen Raspberry Brown Ale: 50 (logged 1 time)
Fruit Beer
New Belgium Giddy Up!: 64 (logged 3 times)
Amber / Red Ale
New Belgium Hop Kitchen French Aramis IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Fresh Hop IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Hop Stout: 54 (logged 2 times)
Stout
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Hop Tart IPA: 67 (logged 2 times)
Wild Ale
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Hop the Pond Double IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Hoppy Bock Lager
European-style Pale Lager
New Belgium Hop Kitchen Rewind IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Hop Kitchen RyePA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Hoptober Golden Ale
American Blonde Ale
New Belgium La Folie Grand Reserve: Honey Saffron: 75 (logged 1 time)
Flanders Brown Ale / Oud Bruin
New Belgium Le Terroir Green Walnut: 67 (logged 1 time)
Lambic / Gueuze
New Belgium Lips of Faith Coconut Curry Hefeweizen: 64 (logged 3 times)
Bavarian Hefeweizen
New Belgium Lips of Faith Eric's Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
New Belgium Lips of Faith Gruit
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
New Belgium Lips of Faith La Folie Sour Brown Ale: 39 (logged 3 times)
Flanders Brown Ale / Oud Bruin (Aged in Barrels, Oak)
New Belgium Lips of Faith Pear Ginger Beer
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
New Belgium Lips of Faith Tart Lychee: 61 (logged 3 times)
Wild Ale
New Belgium Lips of Faith Transatlantique Kriek: 67 (logged 1 time)
Fruit Beer
New Belgium Long Table Farmhouse Ale
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
New Belgium Mighty Arrow Pale Ale: 67 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale
New Belgium Pilsener: 67 (logged 1 time)
Czech Pilsner
New Belgium Pumpkick: 67 (logged 1 time)
Pumpkin Ale
New Belgium Rampant Imperial IPA: 47 (logged 3 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
New Belgium Ranger IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Rolle Bolle
Belgian Pale Ale
New Belgium Shift Pale Lager: 38 (logged 2 times)
American Pale Lager
New Belgium Skinny Dip: 61 (logged 6 times)
American Blonde Ale
New Belgium Slow Ride Session IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Also known as: New Belgium Session IPA
New Belgium Snapshot Tart Wheat Beer: 75 (logged 1 time)
Berliner Weisse
New Belgium Somersault Ale: 32 (logged 5 times)
American Blonde Ale
New Belgium Springboard
Belgian Pale Ale
New Belgium Summer Helles Lager: 50 (logged 1 time)
European-style Pale Lager
New Belgium Sunshine Wheat Beer
American Pale Wheat Ale
New Belgium Tour de Fall Pale Ale: 50 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale
New Belgium Trippel: 50 (logged 2 times)
Belgian Tripel Ale
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Imperial Black IPA
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale / American Black Ale
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Liquid Paradise IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Red Robin 1969 Lager: 25 (logged 1 time)
Light Lager

Limited Edition Single Releases

Collaborations

New Belgium / Cigar City Lips of Faith Ale Brewed with Anaheim and Marash Chilies (collaboration)
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer (Aged on Wood Chips, Cedar)
New Belgium / Dieu du Ciel Lips of Faith Heavenly Feijoa Tripel (collaboration): 48 (logged 4 times)
Belgian Tripel Ale
New Belgium / Elysian Trip XIX Taylor Shellfish Farms Oyster Stout (collaboration): 54 (logged 2 times)
Stout
New Belgium / Elysian Trip XVI Seattle Farmhouse Rye Ale (collaboration): 61 (logged 3 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
New Belgium / Elysian Trip XVII Segal Ranch Cascade Rye IPA (collaboration)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Belgium / Elysian Trip XVIII El Dorado Fresh Hop IPA (collaboration): 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Wet Hop)
New Belgium / Elysian Trip XX Dry-Hopped Brett Ale (collaboration): 67 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale
New Belgium / Perennial Lips of Faith Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout (collaboration): 71 (logged 2 times)
Belgian Stout
New Belgium / Red Rock Lips of Faith Paardebloem Ale (collaboration)
Belgian Strong Pale Ale
New Belgium / Three Floyds Lips of Faith Grätzer Ale (collaboration): 8 (logged 1 time)
Grätzer / Grodziskie
New Belgium Bicycle Kick (collaboration): 75 (logged 1 time)
Kölsch
Two Beers / New Belgium Graff[t] (collaboration): 53 (logged 3 times)
American Pale Lager

Logs for beers from this brewery

Quite tart as you'd expect from a lambic, although there is a tannic dryness and a sharp tinge to the surness to the finish that may be the "terroir" here? Will be the first to admit I have no idea what a green walnut is supposed to taste like. It wasn't nutty.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
It's pretty much a mimosa. I mean, it's not offensive . . .
Bottle at Mema’s House
Tart, clean, pretty good but absolutely tasted nothing like lychee.
A very weird beer, medium-sour with a biscuity-mellow finish that tastes a bit rooty or medicinal. I couldn't tell if that was the base sour or if it had to do with the nitro finish. Pretty good, though!
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
Very fruity, like orange juice. But then there is this powerful bitterness underlying everything.
It takes a lot to make me think I should've ordered the Blue Moon. The aftertaste is actually pretty pleasant (if metallic), but everything leading up to it is kind of gross. Uric and flat, watery and mildewy.
This is clear. But it is kind of weak sauce as far as bitterness.
Bottle at Work
Brown, Balsamic-esque sour (like Duchesse de Bourgogne?) - a couple years' aging has really smoothed out the ancillary flavors here. Slightly fizzy, clean finish. Very nice.
Actually much better than I thought it would be. A smooth chocolate stout flavor evolves into a medium-tart plum vinegar-like sourness. It's a lot less sour than something like a Tart of Darkness, but still decently so. However, the stout and sour flavors remain somewhat separate and don't really meld into a unified entity.
Really odd, basically a Fat Tire mixed with a fresh tasting, dry-hopped IPA. It's an odd mix of crisp and malty. You can tell Firestone is involved; the hop flavors are strong and good. It's just... odd.
First taste is a strong hit of lychee, followed by an unusual, brief top of tongue tartness. That lychee quality fades really quickly into a generic fruitiness, and the sour all but dissipates into a kind of wheaty funk. The finish is tart again (but in the back of the throat), with some cereal.
Um. I dunno about this ice cream and beer mix. Yah.... No
Honestly, it just tastes like a decent Oktoberfest beer .I'm not getting anything about ice cream or brownie .
Pleasant, thinnish brown with more of a straight malt sweetness than anything caramel brownie. There's a hint of salt but it kind of recedes into a general, drying minerality over time.
Very interesting. This beer is slightly tart, and the overall impression is that of a mellow pumpkin pie ale mixed with a small amount of hard apple cider. It was actually pretty interesting, although I never quite got over the strangeness in a half pint. Will try again, though.
Unappealing, murky light color. Flavor is a mix of medium-heavy roast, chocolate, and a very round hop flavor. In fact, I'd have called this a straight CDA if not for the amount of roast on the flavor. Anyway, not really my style.
This has a character in both the scent and the taste that reminds me of an IPA. More spicy than sour, with a hint of bitterness and a yeasty unfiltered undertone .
Tart opening with a bit of funk. Transitions into a kind of sweet peach flavor, maybe a touch of mango. Fruity finish with some sweet cereal.
Hops first and foremost, with the fresh, fragrant flavor of a dry-hopped pale. Then, a sharp turn to very dry tartness. It's a nice juxtaposition, and definitely intriguing.
Moderately hoppy with some of the flavor overtones of an IPA, But mild and with an undertone of a sour . Dry, mild, and complex.
Not a strong smell coming from this. Medium-tart cherry with a kind of timid yeast funk to finish. I remember thinking that there wasn't very much to remember about this beer at all.
Very refreshing and light.
I'm not sure the combination of nitro and barrel does it for me. There's definitely whiskey here, but it's also rendered weirdly bleachy and subdued by the carbonation. Which is a shame, because the aftertaste is just awesome, smooth chocolate, much like I remember from the bottle version. Get that one instead.
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
It has been far too long since I've had a beer this good.
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
Drunk slowly the heat doesn't add up and the cocoa can be appreciated for its non-viscous, roasted qualities. A very enjoyable beer.
Draft
Thin body, but presents very pleasant spiced chocolate flavors.
Nice, balanced mix of chocolate and cinnamon, on top of a sweetish, water-thin porter base. This almost didn't taste like a beer, but its drinkability is saved by the non-beer flavorings. Still, I can't given it a super-strong rating.
A light flavor of raspberry syrup, sweet and soda-like. Hard to call this a beer.
At its base a mild pale ale with sweet cereal. The brett and dry-hopping add fragrance and a yeasty forward bitterness that give this a nice added complexity. There's a bit of a Squirt-like grapefruit soda flavor that I'm not sure I loved, but other than that... a nice experience. (8 oz schooner)
Tons of pine flavor. Yet smooth and delicious.
Bottle
The smell and opening flavor are all chocolate -- creamy, cocoa-like roundness that, while not actually being sweet, brings the decadence of Belgian chocolate strongly to mind. It doesn't quite mesh well with the finish, which is more dry and bitter than expected.
Bottle tasting at Work
Green cereal taste with an acrid hoppy bitter middle and clean finish.
Bottle
A light, well balanced mixture of floral notes, hops, and caramel.
Bottle at A Friend's
Somewhat vegetal cereal fragrance. Flavor has some rooty tartness and a savory, toasted-spice flavor profile that settles into a cereal-but-not-sweet malt body. Bitterness on the back end builds up over time. Hard to figure out, but not bad, either. Doesn't scream crisp refreshment, though.
Science has finally figured out how to swirl water in an ashtray and make beer. This picture is terrible, but I really needed to show you what it looked like, you guys. Thick smoke on the nose, tastes like sour ashes & bitterness.
This is a good wild-type sour. It for start out a little overwhelming, but give it done time and it will open up.
Not a lot of flavor. Still very drinkable.
Can
A mild, fragrant-fruity pale ale with sweet cereal body.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
In a can! Some funk to the smell and a bit of acidic tang to the finish but the cereal body is good with a refreshing fizziness.
Can
Slightly sudsy hop smell. Rich cereal body taste, like a wheat biscuit. Moderate hopped finish with a little soapy presence.
Bottle
Much less umami than 21st Amendment's Marooned on Hog Island, there's a faint salty brininess that comes across more as charcoal and a spicy bite. So from that standpoint it was disappointing, but it wasn't bad overall.
Smells like a cross between an floral IPA and apple cider. Forward flavor is really nice, with the apple smoothing out hops and transitioning cleanly into the malts. The finish, though, is all IPA, bitter and lingering.
Smell is a sour funky with wheat elements. Cereal body with some apple characteristics and a bittering finish.
Nice caramel, coffee overtone with a stronger than expect malt profile and slightly Belgian character. A bit watery, though.
It was like the Chaka I had earlier today, only more watery. To be fair, I've absolutely had a lot of beer today.
Bottle at Work
Too sour, but I've had worse.
Speaking of things that shouldn't exist. This tastes like de-alcoholized champagne.
Funky, malty, with the expected metallic tang going into the finish. While not especially bright in tone, it is enjoyable.
Mild funk, but it hints in the direction of a good malt body as it contains enough breadiness. Mild, approachable taste, and low ABV, make this easily drinkable. Sweetness in the body comes out due to lack of any bitterness but there is a hint of tartness.
I liked this a lot more than I expected. A well-balanced mix of malt, grassy and floral hops, resulting in more of a Euro dark lager flavor than your typical west coast amber ale. Quite appealing, at least for today.
Bottle at Work
A fragrant, hoppy, moderately resinous start and a slightly bitter finish, but very little in between. It just felt kind of empty.
Bottle at Work
Dry, coffee flavor, thin porter body with a hint of tartness. If there were ever a beer equivalent of a black iced tea with lemon, this is it. Much better than it smells, for sure.
Bottle at Work
Smells better than it tastes. No middle taste, finishes with a harsher finish.
Bottle at Work
Slight funk, black tea-like smell. Black tea continues into the drink but I'm getting an acrid bitter finish.
Bottle at Work
they're right about the coriander...
Bottle at Home
Somewhat syrupy fragrance crossed with hops. The flavor is coconut followed quickly by a strong hit of yellow curry with a slightly bitter, savory finish. I feel like the flavors are fighting and I thought the hefe was an unpleasant base.
Slight funky smell initially but curry smell develops pretty strongly shortly afterwards. Solid coconut taste-- the good type. Though I would find drinking a bottle easier without the curry bite as it has an accumulative effect so gets distracting.
Fermented woody apples present in the smell. A bit of bitterness on the finish.
A nice dubbel base with some unexpected dryness. Lots of tingle on the tongue. But I'm not sure where the rye came in.
Ripe, floral aroma.
Bottle at Home
Not as good as the imports (c.f. St. Bernardus) but pretty good.
Bottle at Home