New Belgium Le Terroir

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

Date: 02/09/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Extreme Beer

hazy yellow, big creamy white head, lots of lace, big spicy aroma with a touch of sweet malt, flavor hitsyou in a quick succession of waves with tart, bitter, sour, oak, cherry, and finished with the tart oak

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4
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Date: 06/23/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

opaque orange, fine white head, huge tart aroma with a lemony character and light spicyness, creamy body, lots of tart flavor that leaves you with puckered lips, nice fruity lemon character, light oak and spicyness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

(GABF05) Lightly hazed golden body with white head. Aroma is medium sweet, cherry, oak, some sourness. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, oak, tart/sour. Light-medium body, some acidity.

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 24/09/2009 Sour fruit aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured hazy in appearance strong in alcohol and sour with a crisp and dry malt finish.

Dulled out golden pour that shows a lasting white head. Weird extremely original and hard to define aromas that certainly has a candy sweetness aspect, Christmas sugar can alike. The sour based beer at times reminds of dill, in a lactic form. The weirdness is only enhanced by the dry-hopping, amarillos providing a potent mandarine induced floral tones. Funky yeasty nature, cobwebby, sweet. Extremely original experiment, medicinal, lactic, citric, balsamic and eventually finishing corky, even on draught.

(750ml Bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy orange body with a spare white head. Nose is sour beyond belief! Flavor of lemon sourness with a dry oak finish. Huge thanks for sharing Jason!

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.

Bottle... O-Town Throwdown... This beer rocks!... Murky golden ale with a small, white head. The aroma is a sour, earthy swirl of lemon, leather, cheddar and horse blanket. The only real way (for me) to describe the flavor is Super Sour!... it’s everything acidic and acetic. Beautiful! Medium-bodied and tannic with average carbonation. Finishes super sour and dry. Thanks to Tom from Unique Beers for bringing this bottle to the Throwdown!

Orange beer, small just off-white head. Beautifully C-hopped, and only light lactic and acetic hints in the nose. Great, perfectly fresh hops taste, on top of beautiful lactic acidity. Fresh pipe tobacco smoke, and again hops (fresh) in the swallowing, grapefruit-like. Dry-out effect, dry, dry, dry. Absolutely great combination - the perfect marriage between bitter and sour. Super! Notes for the Brettanomyces refermented Le Terroir Orange-amber beer; nearly no head, transparant. Soft straw-like, soft-hoppy nose, with lots of fusels and higher alcohols. Lemon-like sourness, extremely remarkably clear but falling away rapidly, hops flavour/ aroma without the bitterness. Flowery background flavours. Sharp, burning MF, more acid than alcohollike, of cours. Sharper, more phenolic than the usual dry-hopped Terroir, but nice all the same; yet the Bretts and the dry-hopping seem uneasy bedfellows.