New Belgium Lips of Faith Le Terroir

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

Orange color with a white head. Aroma is vinegar, citrus, and spices. Flavor is very sour with citrus, tropical fruit, and vinegar notes. Aftertaste is fruity and sour. Overall good beer.

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

Amber orange color, fluffy white head, chunks of lacing. Sout tart funky right up front in the nose and palate, fruity, citrus zest, funky yeasts, light oakiness, honeysuckle - just a fantastic beer. Thanks Jason for sharing. This wasn't on my Wish List but should have been!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 9

Bomber from BCLDB Nordel Crossing. A pour of gold/orange and a lot of cloudiness under a minimal white head. Lots of treats for the nose: fruity, yeasty and a bit of alcohol. Great taste, being supremely sour and tart, plus a peppery bit as well. Sour/tart grapefruit finish. To borrow from one of the above reviews (thanks, Beav!) this one packs a impressive pucker factor. Very nicely done, NB.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 9

22oz bottle. Pours a hazy yellow gold with a medium frothy white head that goes to a thin film that leaves some lacing.

The aroma is nice, lots of acidic brett with some sour apple and some musty hops.

The flavor is sweet tart fruity mouth-puckering sourness with some earthy acidic brett and a bit of hop bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, one of my favorite sours. A huge amount of sourness with some yummy brett.

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

another winning sour ale from new belgium...maybe even their best i've had to date. although a freind said the lvel of hops had faded since he first had this, they were still there, just more of a minor player. still added some complexity and uniqueness to what already would be a good assertive sour ale. lots of wood, barn, funk, vinegar, and hops at the end of the aroma and back of the mouth. slight grapefruitiness, but it;s overpowered by the sourness...not that there's anything wrong with that.

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

An insanely dry hopped sour that works wonders. Amber copper pour with a humungous white head and thick lacing. Vibrant and well carbonated. Fresh hop aroma, the Amarillo is easy to detect and leads way to a funky fruitiness. Fairly tart and refreshing, the sour level was spot on for my preference. The fresh hops and barnyard funk are extremely complimenting to each other instead of vying for time.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 9

Pours a medium tan caramel, light head and lacing .. . delicious light summer aromas of hay, wood, barn, and light spring day in a meadow in france .. . a light refreshing brew with a beautiful touch of sourness- this is amazing stuff .. . quite complex in the mouth some light funk, orange skin, light fruit, wood, and happy thoughts .. . been wanting this for over half a decade and it was better than i could have imagined - pure quality! .. . wishlist cross off, originally put on: 5/12/2006 .. . buy this if you see it .. . So then did the American yum yum clown monkey also represent the FCC?

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

Sampled at the Falling Rock, GABF week 2008
This beer smells quite fruity and is not nearly as tart / sour as the Love that I just drank. This seems to accentuated a fruity grape like aroma here and there is also a toasted, cracker like grain note towards the finish. The fruit character is light but there are touches of apricot, tart melon and some other tropical fruit like notes. A hint of woody / spicy oak character seems to mix in with the toasted grain aromas.

The taste is pretty tart, though much softer than the Love, which allows a touch more fruit character to come through than was in the aroma. The sourness is much more lactic in focus, but still provides an ample sourness; the acidity accentuates flavors of apricot, strawberry, an incredible sour plum note, tart no make that sour melon and an interesting citrus-vinegar component. This beer is somewhat light bodied, but it does have a certain light-viscous heft to it, though it is still very quaffable; the heft is just enough to be well balanced by the sourness (if that makes sense, the sourness cuts through, yet is tempered at the same time by the body of this brew). Some faint oak flavors towards the finish provide a nice, pepper-like spice / bite. There is some acetic character here, it is light (especially compared to the Love), but really helps to add another dimension to the sourness as well as a bit more balance. This is another phenomenal beer, if not for the Love this would have had a much bigger impact upon me.