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New Belgium Fat Tire 3.07 1699

New Belgium Fat Tire

Percentile
53
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
16993.07/5.03.07/5.05.2%68.4English 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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 PilsnerPeter (2667), Flushing, New York, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 28, 2008  
Bottle: Pours a deep copper with good clarity and a wispy off white head. The aroma is malty- a bit sweet with a maltose character and a hint of diacetyl. Light feel. Malt dominates the flavor with a lightly caramelized character and a mild husk note. It’s slightly buttery in the flavor as well. Not enough hop character for the style, in my opinion. Eh.


 Rciesla (3880), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/103/511/20
Dec 28, 2008  
Bottle. Pours an amber body with a thin tan head. Sweet malt, toasted malt, a light breadiness with a light earthy dry hoppiness in the finish. not bad.


 CheersMate1 (866), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Dec 23, 2008  
Very clear beer with little head. The beer has an orange hue to it. Not so bad looking. There is a nice malt aroma. Very toasty type aroma to this one. Not much of an aroma as far as hops are concerned. Thin palate with a heavy focus on malt and sweet flavors. Not really a hoppy beer at all. A very malt oriented beer with a sweet bread taste to it. Not one of my favorites; a rather bland beer if you ask me.


 JohnQPublic (387), Brooklyn, New York, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 22, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a clear amber, with a healthy white, fluffy head. Nose is a bit toasty, some slightly bready malt, maybe a bit of grassy hops. Flavor follows suit - toasty, slightly bready, clean malt character, just a bit of spice, and a hint of balancing, almost grassy hops. Body is light, carbonation is fairly light.


knights97 (85), Tennessee, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/103/57/20
Dec 21, 2008  
Picked this up in a bottle, pours to a amber color, very light body beer that is heavily carbonated, with very little flavor to it.


 Harsebrau (168), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/511/20
Dec 20, 2008  
Fat Tire in a can! Actually Tastes better in the can than bottle. Aroma is bready and hoppy. Grain flavor with slight hob bitterness and citrus. It is a crisp beer but fades into a cereal, breadiness in the end.


 DalzAle (516), Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Dec 18, 2008  
12 oz. bottle, pours a pale orange color with a quickly dissipating head. Some citrus aroma and not much else. Flavor didnt have much that jumped out at me, just another standard amber for the masses. Ok beer for BBQs and big gatherings, but nothing to write home about.


 stankenk (130), Maplewood, Minnesota, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/515/20
Dec 18, 2008  
Pours an Amber color with a thick white head. Aroma of biscuit malts, bread, citrus and some spice. Comes across the palate as sweet and malty with pronounced caramel and buttery notes. Picks up a smooth nuttiness through the middle and ends slightly bitter but still mainly malty like a biscuit. This is a good goto beer if you at a bar that mainly has macros.



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