New Belgium Le Terroir

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Draft @ Papago. One sniff of this one and sour will come to mind. Wow packs a sour bomb aroma on the nose along with fruits. Hazy yellow body with witte head. Flavor is packed with sour tart, apricot and apple ruits. Sour aftertaste lingers for aftertaste. If you a fan of sours this one is your cup of tea.

on tap @ papago. pour is a hazy orange iced tea color with no head. it’s very still but carbonation is pretty active. i can smell this beer long before i present it to my sniffer. sweetened aromas of wood, earth, pale malt, brown sugar and sour. not vinegar sour, more like under ripe tart apricots or peaches. the flavor starts a bit malty and sweet then quickly turns toward dry and sour. it’s got lots of fruit...lemons, granny smiths, sour fresh peaches and apricots, wood, honey, brown sugar and an earthy herbal funk. it finishes crisp, tart and dry then it turns the whole inside of my mouth puckered. sharp, tart, dry and clean mouth feel (yup, all of them). this is a sour beast...

Tap at Brouwers’ Bigwood fest ’07.

Mindblowing amarillo dry-hop aroma thickly layered with oak atop a funk sour. Rarely have a had a beer generate this sort of anticipation with its aroma. But sadly, the taste comes in strange given the expectation that the nose creates. Basically, this seems a failed experiment. I get a funky heavy unpleasantness to the flavor; flemish-style overly sweet-and-sour, fumes burning up into the nose. I’d inhale any time, and admittedly this is a very different, ambitious beer...but a not beer that I particular want to drink. Head to head against the Lost Abbey Yellow Bus, this one is not even close to in the running.,

On tap at Brouwers Belgian fest May 2007. Amber color with a nice foamy head. Nice oak wood lemon funky smell. Taste is big tart funk at first then a tart fruity lemon yeasty wood flavor to finish. Not as sour as the La Folie but just as tasty.

Bottle sampled on 6/23/07 shared by boboski: Pours a hazy golden bronze with a thin ring of spotty lacing white head. Aroma of complex tart light fruits and pale biscuity malt with some leather and cheesy funk. Body starts with a hint of sweetness and lots of oaky cherry tartness and funky complexity toward a drier, earthy tart finish. A very nice brew.

On tap at FoBAB ’07. Yellow hazy appearance. Funky sour aroma with lemon and other fruit. Sour lemon flavor, some orange. Thin to medium body and sour tart pucker. Freakin’ awesome but not as good as la folie.

FOBAB ’07....appearance: golden brown thin white head....aroma: white wine, grapes, sour oak woodiness, and lemon peel.....taste: woody, and delivering a nice sour sensation, and more citrus and funk notes to follow.....was a nice way to recalibrate the palate at this point in the day.....NB needs to bottle this sucker.

FoBAB 07. honey aroma, color. sour, duh. almond. great flavor. almost a duvel type beer to me without being so unappealing.