New Belgium 2° Below Winter Ale

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

This beer pours a golden amber color with a medium white head leaving lacing down the sides. The smell is very pungent as is the taste... Definately spicy tasting, but not in the traditional sense. There are a good amount of hops in there that makes this thing very crisp and tangy. This is a very unique beer... I like it though! Nice winter brew! Cheers!

From a 12-ounce brown bottle, it pours a bright amber-hued gold with very fine bubbles and a lasting white head. Unique spicey?, hoppy, almost smokey aroma. Medium-bodied with a pronounced malty, slightly caramely flavor, with a delicate hops presence. Nice late alcohol warming. Very clean and drinkable ale.

From a distinctive New Belgium 12 oz. bottle with a blurb and a best before date, 27.Apr.07, on the right side of label. Poured a clear orangey copper with a foamy, fluffy, rocky white head with good retention, slowly settled into a sudsy lacing, minimal amount of laced sticking. Aromas of spicy, leafy hops, roasted nutty grain, a bit fruity and light sweet caramelized malts. Good, steady carbonation and a crisp, creamy smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Pleasant tasting, caramel sugary English malts, buttery, a light fruitiness from the yeast, spicy, dry leafy hops that have a good soft bitterness, towards the end, roasted grains with traits of roasted nuts, and dry leafy, caramelized malty finish. I enjoyed this new seasonal from New Belgium, much better than the Harvest Saison Ale released earlier this fall, easy drinkability, I could drink this all night.

A wonderful beer for the wintertime. The 6.6% alcohol level keeps you nice and warm. Recently brought a 6-pack up snowboarding with me, and it really did the job.

Certainly not what I expected, but I was suprised... I liked it. I was expecting something more like SN’s Celebration ale, and while it was no where near that, it is also no where near any other ale I have had recently.

Fantastic! Poured from bottle. First took a sip from the bottle to get a orange zest taste on the tip of my tongue. Crisp citrus and grass aroma. Through the taste I still am getting grass, though I with this brew I have had my introduction to the juniper taste that is very apparent here. The body isnt too heavy and leaves a clean after taste. Mouthfeel is wonderful, the flavors really travel far on this on going down. I am certain to recommend this, during the winter especailly as it reminds me of beautiful greens themselves. Well done!

Pine/citrus aroma. Clean aroma. Amber color with vigorous off-white head. Starts with strong flavor - sort of cedar/juniper. Don’t know where the pine/citrus went. Medium mouthfeel, thins on swishing. About the middle there is a warm, pepper impression. Never had anything like this. The "pepper" sort of takes the place of hop, though there is detectable bitterness. Ends with a bit of sweetness struggling against everything else. Which may indicate balance. Unique. Good stuff. There’s a bit of lacing as well.

not a bad beer! ...has some nice wintery feel to it...has a good head!, lacing as well...some muddled tastes but basically a good average winter, a tad thin too...