New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

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

This is for sure my most favorite fruit beer ever (aside from my own cheery wheat homebrew of coarse). I knew I liked this from having some over the winter but I tasted it again at the great taste of the midwest and I really, really like it! I need to get a bottle now in fact!

Like I said in my Spotted Cow review I have tried numerous amounts of beers from New Glarus and this is their best brew out of all of them...there is an aroma of cherries when you pop open the bottle, a rich red color and well the flavor is just amazing...this is probably one of the best beers I have ever tasted!

I’ve enjoyed this fruit nectar on many occasions in the last few years, but only recently did I purchase a bottle with the intent to rate it. New Glarus Belgian Red is the greatest evidence that beer can be civilized and classy. Beer lovers rave about it, casual beer drinkers rave about it, and beer haters rave about it. Pours a beautiful light red with a nice pinkish head of foam, small CO2 bubbles race up the sides of the pint glass. This beer is best served in a champagne flute or perhaps a tulip, fwiw. The cherry nose is similar to NG’s Cherry Stout: sweet yet tart cherries. This is not cloyingly saccharine in the least. The flavor is much of the same cherry balance. Very refreshing during any point of a meal. Words can’t do this fine concoction justice. It really is a beer that has to be tasted to understand. But once you see the light, there’s no turning back.

from beginning to end this is one of the best beers I’ve ever had. On tap is a totally different experience than the bottle. Much more refreshing and enjoyable.

Thankyou SuIIY. Enjoyed with JoshuaB as well. And don’t listen to him, he’s just a hater. Everything he rates he downrates just because he hates fruit and hype. Everyone feel free to call him a hater. This beer is perfection in a bottle.

A world class fruit beer, New Glarus Belgian Red, is one of the most impressive fruit beers on the market today. This beer is just packed with big aromas and flavors, and if you love cherries like I do, it is impossible not to like this beer. New Glarus Belgian Red pours to a beautiful, ruby red color, with a slight pink head that fades, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer, just bursts with aromas of sweet and tart cherry. The palate is wonderful, with lush flavors of tart cherry, sweet cherry, and just enough malt back bone to support the cherry flavor. Belgian Red finishes with more tart cherry flavors up front, then ends with a very refreshing and delicious, sweet/tart cherry flavor that lingers. The ultimate desert beer, this is cherry pie in a glass.

Pours a light ruby red with a little white head that disapates quickly. Wonderful cherry and rubarb pie aroma. Same wonderful taste with some oak influence and green apple too. Mouthfeel is medium silky sweet feel. This is a great beer. Yah, my first 5!

pored in a flute and had with an awesome rotation six pack of ipas’.(avery ipa, victory hop devil, gl commodore, gd titan, 3 fs’ ak, and two hearted). pours a cloudy caramel color with a one finger light tan fluffy bubbly head with light red highlights. aroma is nice sweet cherries with a little tart, some yeast, and a little oaky vanilla very nice. has a medium to full body with descent lacing and good carbonation. flavor is wow very sweet cherries’ with just enough tart mixed in and a touch of yeast and oaky vanilla. WOW AWSOME! almost has a cider type flavor to it and at the same time a champagne, sparkling cider type mouth feel. very awesome stuff i would recommend this to anyone whether they drink beer or not. good job new glarus!! i noticed that the aroma does get better and is perfect as it warms, so i went from a 9 to a 10 to make this my first perfectly rated beer!!! pours a little more dark ruby red color at the last half of the bottle.