New Belgium Lips Of Faith Fresh Hop India Pale Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Sampled on 3/16/2012. This IPA pours a medium orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Medium sized white foamy head, with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is caramel, fruity and sweet, grapefruity and citrusy. A medium bodied IPA The malts are caramel and sweet. The hops are grapefruity, citrusy and herbal with that extra little herbal/vegetative/garlicky taste from the fresh hops. It’s more in the background on this beer. Not a huge hop bomb, but the hop flavors last a while. Decent carbonation. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Slightly hazy golden-orange pour with an ample white head. Very nice but somewhat mild aroma of citrus and pine. Same citrus and pine comes through in the flavor but with just a touch of caramel and malt to keep my palate in check. Very enjoyable but I just wish I had opened this about a month earlier--these fresh hop beers tend to fade fast.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

on draft @ Houston Saucer .. . deep gold tan .. good foam, sticky lacing .. . good gooey sap and pinecone .. . a good simple awesome ipa .. . . i'm here to fix the mistake in the pool..

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

good looking with a nice frothy head. soft feel, and relatively soft flavor, though the accumulating bitter aftertaste gets to be a lot by the end. all citrus with a touch of malt to blalance, but like i said, still soft. liked it, but in a direct comparison, not quite as good as the cheaper Ranger, but worth a try.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Clear honey color pour, tall frothy and creamy white head with tons of lacing. Floral and pine hops aroma upfront, some fruitiness, light caramel malts. Taste is floral, piney and lightly tropical hopped, offset nicely by the light sweet caramel malt, nice medium bitter linger. Good clean effort from New Belgium.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

22oz bottle. Pours a clear light copper orange with a big fluffy white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is caramel and toasted biscuit malt with piney, grassy, resiny fruity hops.

The flavor is toasted caramel malts with some melon and a lot of resiny pine. It has a lot of bitterness in the finish but a bit of a weird plasticky note. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with light prickly carbonation.

Overall, it's interesting. Definitely the bitterest beer I've had from New Belgium. Other than the weird off note in the aftertaste and a little to much of a toasted note, this could be pretty good. Still decent though.