New Belgium Old Cherry

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Bottle thanks to 5000: Pours a transparent copper ruby with a thin, wispy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of lightly sweet sugary cherries and a hint of grainy pale malt. Body starts with average fullness and decent sweetness and fruity cherries before a slightly doughy semi-sweet finish. Hides it’s alcohol pretty well, but could be a little fuller or have some tart balance.

Wet dough and cherries on the nose. Amber color with a soapy head. Caramel sweetness, tart with a noticeable bitterness. Big carbonation, flavors finished with complexity. Easy drinking, mildly tart cherry beer, would be better with food than by itself.

Aroma is a mild malt scent with a hint of fruit. Color is a bright amber with good carbonation and a thin head. Taste is light and malty. Starting with a light/medium body it goes down easy. Finish is a mild malt flavor with a very faint hint of fruit and slight tartness. After taste is dry and clean. Its a nice easy drinking brew that is good on a summer day, but it just doesn’t have much going on.

Not a fan. Weird color on the pour. Reddish amber with a small foamy off white head. Nose is medicinal, cherries, and wood. Taste for some reason remindes me of strawberry nesquick which I hate. I pretty much could not get past that. Medium mouthfeel, short finish.

Bottle, Folly Pack from Kegs & Barrels in McKinney, TX. Pours a hazy amber with off-white head. Aroma of malt and some citris. Flavor is malty, nice fruit notes, sweet cherry notes. Mouthfeel is medium body, high carbonation, overall, im glad they didn’t overdo the cherry....not bad .

Decent beer. Pours with an off-white foamy head covering a clear, deep amber body. Aroma of cherries, caramel, wood, nuts, milk chocolate and cinnamon. Taste is cherry and some chocolate malts. Lively bubbles.

Redish light amber with an off-white head. Nose is light cherry with some grain. Flavor is slightly sweet with a touch of cherry, decent carbination with a little bitter cherry finish.

Bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is clear medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), lightly to moderately yeasty (sweat, cheese, dough), with a note of detergent, hint of cherry. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter, unclean. Medium body, syrupy/watery texture, soft/lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Good grief. Highly unpleasant. I was kinda hoping this would be a passable, if overly sweet and fruity, fruit beer. It’s certainly syrupy sweet, but replace "fruity" with "cheesy and sweaty". Throw in some soap and that’s Old Cherry. I don’t understand how they could mess up a beer like this so badly. This is amazing, really.