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New Belgium Black is the New Wit

New Belgium Black is the New Wit joins the Garage Series. A witbier brewed with coriander and orange peel.

The Garage Series comes off the brewery’s pilot system, and hits specific markets.

Style: Witbier (w/ Orange Peel, Coriander)
Availability: Draft only, as of Continue Reading →

Posted in Don't Miss This, New Belgium

New Belgium Rampant IPA Coming to Cans

New Belgium Rampant Imperial IPA is slated for cans.

The brewery launched Rampant IPA in March of 2013, and hop heads fell quickly in love with it. Building upon the success of New Belgium cans, (and well, craft beer in cans in general) the brewery will be bringing Rampant IPA to cans.

…The hop profile heavily features Mosaic and Calypso, bringing stone fruit flavors to the front seat. We’re talking peaches, apricots, things like that. Centennials are in there too, rounding out the aroma with a big citrus blast. Rampant also offers a sturdy malt backbone to balance the flavor in such wonderful way. It is a really great beer, like really great…

New Belgium Rampant IPA will be available in 12oz cans. Release date to follow.

Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Mosaic, Calypso, Centennial
Malts: Pale, Black

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. 12oz Cans (Soon)

8.5% ABV, 85 IBUS

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

New Belgium Black is the New Wit

New Belgium Black is the New Wit joins the Garage Series. A witbier brewed with coriander and orange peel.

The Garage Series comes off the brewery’s pilot system, and hits specific markets.

Style: Witbier (w/ Orange Peel, Coriander)
Availability: Draft only, as of 11/13/14

7.8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Belgium, Seasonal Return

New Belgium Frambozen Returns Ahead of Cold Front

America is about to get it’s first big arctic blast of the winter fall, and ahead of it, is New Belgium Frambozen.

Frambozen is a brown ale, featuring the juice of fresh picked raspberries added to fermentation.

Every year, New Belgium sends a delegate to the Pacific Northwest to oversee the process of turning freshly picked berries into a pure juice to be added in fermentation. The coming of Thanksgiving at New Belgium is ushered in with the first sighting of our cellar operators scuttling about, covered head to tow in a festive crimson berry wash.

New Belgium Frambozen is available in 12oz bottles and draft for a limited time. Editors note: Fantastic with turkey…

Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries)
Hops: Target
Malts: Pale, Munich, C-80, Carapils, Chocolate

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Late fall seasonal.

6.5% ABV, 16 IBUs

Image via New Belgium

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Belgium, Wicked Weed Brewing Co

New Belgium & Wicked Weed Create “Tributary”[PICS]

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) and New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, CO) have teamed up on a new offering – Tributary.

Tributary was brewed at the brewpub in Asheville (future home to New Belgium), and will release on November 15th, 2014.

Tributary features malt from Colorado Malting, and Riverbend Malt in Asheville. Additionally, the beer features yeast from both New Belgium’s brettanomyces strain and Wicked Weed’s saison/brett blend. Rounding out the ingredients are sugar beets, Mosaic hops, and one experimental, yet to be named breed.

Barrels of water were shipped from Colorado to be added to the brew as well, signifying water’s important role in brewing. Abby Dickinson, Marketing and PR at Wicked Weed:

 “Two smaller tributaries coming together make a stronger, larger, more beautiful river… The same goes for craft beer. We are all a part of a larger community and when we can come together and support each other, we are a part of something more beautiful…”

A portion of the proceeds from bottle sales will benefit the Western North Carolina Alliances’s French Broad Riverkeeper program. Wicked Weed/New Belgium Tributary will be released at 2 pm on November 15th.

Style: Imperial Saison (w/ Sugar Beets)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Arrival: 11/15/14, 2 pm

?? ABV

Images via Wicked Weed Brewing

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Belgium

New Belgium/Perennial Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout Releases

New Belgium / Perennial Artisanal Ales Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout has started making appearances in various markets. The new, drool-worthy creation gracing New Belgium’s Lips of Faith Series is a Belgian-style stout with a touch of chocolate and salt. 22oz of dessert in a bottle.

Dessert is best poured. And the brewers at Perennial agree. So we dreamt up a beer that would bering together chocolate sweetness, Belgian yeast, deeply roasted malts and just the right shake of salt to pour a creamy stout worth of a cherry on top.

New Belgium/Perennial Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout is available in 22oz bombers and draft for a limited time.

Style: Belgian-Style Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Salt)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Arrival: Late September/October, 2014

9% ABV

Image via New Belgium

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Distribution Expansion, New Belgium

New Belgium Will Distribute to Kentucky Next Year

New Belgium Brewing (Ft. Collins, CO) is widening their quest to be in all 50 states with the addition of Kentucky in late 2015.

The brewery will be ship to 10 wholesalers once they open the Bluegrass State, their 38th state of distribution.

We’ve been starting the distributor selection process earlier than in the past,” said New Belgium Brewing’s Sales Co-Pilot, Brian Krueger.  “This allows us plenty of time for planning so that we can really hit the ground running when we open these new territories. Kentucky has been on the horizon for a while now so we’re excited to be moving on to the next stage.”

The 10 distributors include:

1.       Eagle Distributing Company -AB
2.       Golden Eagle Distributing, Inc. -AB
3.       J.B. Distributors, Inc. -AB
4.       Bud of Owensboro (Hand Family, LLC) –AB
5.       Kentucky Eagle, Inc.-AB
6.       Perry Distributors, Inc. – AB
7.       River City Distributing – M/C
8.       Smith Brothers Distributing Company –AB
9.       Stagnaro Distributing – M/C
10.    Edward Utley Jr., Inc. –AB
 

Look for New Belgium’s offerings in Kentucky after announcements of the Asheville, North Carolina facility coming online.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, New Belgium

New Belgium Ted’s Beer

by Reid Ramsay