Tap Takeover Thursday - New Belgium

November 03, 2016 4:00PM - 11:59PM at The Happy Raven

Featuring three unique brew from the always enjoyable New Belgium Brewing Company.

La Folie
La Folie, French for "the folly," is a beer steeped in New Belgium brewing tradition. This wood-aged, sour brown spends one to three years in big, oak barrels, known as foeders. And when the beer finally hits the glass, La Folie is sharp and sour, full of green apple, cherry, and plum-skin notes. Pouring a deep mahogany, the mouthfeel will get you puckering while the smooth finish will get you smiling. Not a beer for the timid, La Folie is a sour delight that will turn your tongue on its head.

TASTING NOTES
VISUAL
Ominously deep dark red bronze hue.
AROMA
Green apple, plum skin, jammy, caramel sweetness, cherry pit, peppery alcohol, citrus zest
FLAVOR
Sharp, clean and sour and malty- like biting into a fresh picked Granny Smith Apple.
MOUTHFEEL
Mouth puckering and thirst quenching.
BODY
Medium
BEER FACTS
ABV
7.0%
IBU
18
YEAST
Lager Yeast
CALORIES
200
HOPS
Nugget
MALTS
Pale, Munich, Carpils, C-80, Chocolate
SPECIAL PROCESSING
Oscar Production: A base beer is fully fermented, filtered and then moved to barrels at room temperature (no carbonation). Barrels are aged for 1-3 years and it’s a blend of 2 Oscar barrels: Acidifying and aging gives it its complex tart aromas and flavors. We taste barrels every three months and then blend different foeders with different flavor profiles and ages together at different percentages to make a complete single sour brown that is decidedly La Folie.

Le Terrior
Le Terroir: French, meaning ‘from the terrain, soil, land, ground, earth.’ You may have heard it as a wine term speaking of the environmental conditions of the vineyard, the pH of the soil, even the slope of the land. But beer has it too, especially a New Belgium sour beer, which oozes terroir from the pores of the wooden foeders we age it in. Le Terroir is a complex blend of sour Felix, and then dry-hopped with Amarillo and, for 2016, Crystal hops. The result is a fruity, citrusy, winelike drink with a huge hop nose.

TASTING NOTES
VISUAL
Golden orange hazy glow.
AROMA
Juicy ripe passion fruit and orange citrus, soft overripe peaches, slight earthy wood beer funk!
FLAVOR
Fruity and tart, with notes of lemongrass and mango. Amarillo's tropical fruit notes and the barrel's soft fruit sours seem to be the perfect marriage.
MOUTHFEEL
Tart, juicy, and dry, fast on the tongue.
BODY
Medium
BEER FACTS
ABV
7.5%
IBU
12
YEAST
Lager Yeast
CALORIES
210
HOPS
Nugget
MALTS
Pale, Wheat, C-80, Carapils, Oats
SPECIAL PROCESSING
Dry-hopped with amarillo and crystal hops.


Fruit Fly
A new spin on the classic tart Berliner weisse. Fruit Fly is a kettle-soured, quaffable ale brewed with tropical passionfruit and fruity Citra hops.

TASTING NOTES
VISUAL
Bright yellow with an opaque, heavy sheen, fluffy white foam, and thick lacing.
AROMA
Citrus is definitely in the forefront, as well as bright acidic acetic notes. There is also an aroma of overripe tropical fruit and a hint of other general fruitiness.
FLAVOR
Opens sour with a touch of sweetness, then goes into a quick bit of bitterness, before finishing with a lingering sourness.
MOUTHFEEL
Refreshingly tart
BODY
Medium body that's juicy and mouth puckering with a dry finish.
BEER FACTS
SPECIAL PROCESSING
Additions of passionfruit and dry-hopped with Citra hops.

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