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New Belgium Fat Tire 3.07 1691

New Belgium Fat Tire

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53
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
16913.07/5.03.07/5.05.2%68.2English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Named in honor of our founder Jeff’s bike trip through Belgium, Fat Tire Amber Ale marks a turning point in the young electrical engineer’s home brewing. Belgian beers use a far broader palette of ingredients (fruits, spices, esoteric yeast strains) than German or English styles. Jeff found the Belgian approach freeing. Upon his return, Jeff created Fat Tire and Abbey Belgian Ale, (assuming Abbey would be his big gun). He and his wife, Kim traveled around sampling their homebrews to the public. Fat Tire’s appeal quickly became evident. People liked everything about it. Except the name. Fat Tire won fans is in its sense of balance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness.
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 Bullit (1374), Glasgow, Scotland
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
May 13, 2009  
Bottle, bar, Chicago. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma of toasted malts. Flavour of biscuit malts, caramel, some hops. Plain and boring.


 TheGrandMaster (1862), Auckland, New Zealand
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
May 13, 2009  
Bottle (in NZ). Pours a dark orange with a frothy head. Biscuity malt on the nose. More sweet than anything on the palate, a bit bland and lifeless, with just brief cut of bitterness in the finish.


 Barreras (128), Diamond Bar, California, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
May 12, 2009  
Pours a golden orange color, with a full head. Tastes a little creamy but overall good. Not your typical amber ale but drinkable nonetheless.


clcontact (18), South Dakota, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/105/56/103/513/20
May 10, 2009  
good color, taste is ok, sometimes it is bitter the body is dark in color which gives it a good appearance


EHGsean (28), Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/514/20
May 8, 2009  
I was in Phoenix and picked this up at a local corner store. Although there are a number of American Amber Ales out there that out shine this one, you could do a lot worse at a gas station corner store. Could be hoppier to balance the malt sweetness.


 dionysus (116), Arizona, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/514/20
May 6, 2009  
Bottle pours clear amber in color with a quickly collapsing, dense, off-white head. The aroma is fairly mellow with some light malt and biscuit. Flavor profile is also pretty tame as well, showing some sweet toasted malt and nutty yeast. Not a bad beer by any means, just not a whole lot to it. I’d still rather see this in a friend’s fridge than plenty of others out there.


 stobbe74 (714), Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
May 6, 2009  
Bottle. Pours an amber/orange beer with slight chillhaze and an offwhite head. The aroma is caramelsweetness, and the flavor is malts/grain. Overall this beer is about average, nothing exciting.


 yalnikim (781), Wellington, New Zealand
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20
May 4, 2009  
04/05/2009. 12oz from Beerstore.co.nz. This one, me thinks, is more a flat tire than a fat one. One for the masses. Sweet and malty without the hop, yeast or roast character(s) to carry it off. My scores reflect its well made mediocrity.



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