New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

i cleaned my room the other day for the first time in 6 months and found my notes from tasting this a while back with duff and eczematic (the machine). plenty of marzipan, some oak and vanilla. faint tomato juice in the finish balances perfectly. even better than my own schitt kriek

A very thin white head tops a very dark cloudy red body. The aroma hits you from the bottle and continues right into the glass. It is deep cherry pie with a touch of cinnamon and butter. The first thing i noticed as I drank this was that it is smooth with a creamy mouthfeel. The taste is sour cherries, a little hay and cinnamon. The finish is peppery and lively. This is excellent and would be perfect as a dessert with a fruit pie or cheese cake. It could be a little more tart.

Aroma of strong cherries and cinammon blended with sugar with notes of oak and vanilla. Reddish brown and cloudy with swirling, fine bubbled off-white head. Tartness is there but you really won’t notice it hiding behind the big sweet cherries. This could be one of the best non-lambic fruit beers ever. Mouthfeel is so smooth and creamy. Medium-full body. Extremely enjoyable dessert confection. Bottle (enjoyed at Mondial RB Gathering 2004 with CapFlu, CaptainCougar, jercraigs, MartinT, OKBeer, Radek and Rastacouere).

Red-brown color with a nice head. Lots of carbonation (like champaign). The aroma is pure delight, cherries step to the forefront. The cherry tartness slaps you across the face but then mellows out to sweet-sour balance. This beer is not sugary sweet and bland like some cherry beers. Among the very best in it genre into the world, many Belgium breweries wish their Krieks were this good. Re-rate: A very fresh bottle I got on trip to Milwaukee - the oak undertones seem to be more noticeable this time. Again, simply a great beer.

Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ... Hazy bright red ... Sweet deep fruity cherry nose ... Sweet fruit lots of fizz ... lots of cherry with a lovely tart fizzy finnish. Its packed with flavour ... My number 1 beer of the event and the one i most want to try again.

Tk2 Bottle at home ... Thanks to Ughsmash for this ... slightly hazy pink/orange ... wonderful sweet deep nose ... quite tart ... but lots of fruit ... bursting ... Pretty much as i remember it... having had a whole bottle its maybe a few points lower but im enjoyin it enough i cant bring myself to lower it.

The Kilburn Gathering. St Louis, Chapeau, Floris, and now New Glarus. I love these easy drinking beers with that wonderful balance of sweet and sour. This is, however, one of the better producers, and - as they are respected by other beer geeks - I don’t need to feel awkward about admitting I like them. Morello cherries, Christmas candle wax, marzipan, black cherry jam, Christmas spice - frankincense. O my! Beautiful taste and mouthfeel. Beautiful balance of sweet and sour. Mmmmm. Nice one.

Poured a murky brown with a reddish tint and a tinted pink head. Aroma is all cherry. Like others have said fresh cherry pie. Flavor of cheery, sweet, tart, acidic. Light bodied.

Picked up bottle from New Glarus gift shop. Cool! Pours an opaque red with a creamy off-white, lasting head. Aroma is cherries immediately with some yeast and barley malt. Taste of tart cherries, spicy and sweet all wrapped up together. Sweet yet clean finish. None comparable to all the other fruit beers. This one stands alone.