New Belgium + Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ale
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream beer. This winter, dip into the fridge—not just the freezer—to find a dozen ways to sate your sweet tooth. Our newest collaboration with Ben & Jerry’s brings together two different types of pint-makers for one common goal: to fill your glass with Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ale.
To craft this confection, we dove into our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes for inspiration, and then whipped hefty doses of chocolate, brown sugar and vanilla into a dough-hued blonde ale base. The result is a full-bodied beer that seduces with a perfect balance of vanilla and chocolate, and finishes with just the right amount of sweetness. Put down the spoon, pick up a pint.
In celebration of this year’s collaboration, New Belgium and Ben & Jerry’s -- both B-Corps -- are once again joining forces with Protect Our Winters (POW) to create tangible ways to fight climate change just as they did a year ago.
Calling this campaign “100 Days to Change Our Ways," the three socially minded organizations want the new Administration to make climate change a priority during its first 100 days. To rally support, events will be held in 12 cities across the country with letter-writing stations, POW athletes speaking out about the dangers of climate change, raffles, and of course beer and ice cream.
To craft this confection, we dove into our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes for inspiration, and then whipped hefty doses of chocolate, brown sugar and vanilla into a dough-hued blonde ale base. The result is a full-bodied beer that seduces with a perfect balance of vanilla and chocolate, and finishes with just the right amount of sweetness. Put down the spoon, pick up a pint.
In celebration of this year’s collaboration, New Belgium and Ben & Jerry’s -- both B-Corps -- are once again joining forces with Protect Our Winters (POW) to create tangible ways to fight climate change just as they did a year ago.
Calling this campaign “100 Days to Change Our Ways," the three socially minded organizations want the new Administration to make climate change a priority during its first 100 days. To rally support, events will be held in 12 cities across the country with letter-writing stations, POW athletes speaking out about the dangers of climate change, raffles, and of course beer and ice cream.
3.1
164 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
Interesting. Aromas of chocolate and vanilla. Nice color and medium weight. Strong flavors that had deceptive sweetness. Hints of cake batter.
12 oz bottle consumed near Enjoy By date.
Look: clear golden body with a decent white head.
Aroma: pale ale plus vanilla-tinged cookie dough, not mixing as well as one might hope.
Flavor: sweeter than the aroma suggests with even more vanilla and cookie dough. Not enough chocolate chips in the dough.
Bottle: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet candy malt. Taste is chocolate and sweet malts.
Actually has a cookie dough aroma. A hint of vanilla and some malt. Pours a clear light gold with a quickly fading bright white head that leaves a light lacing. Light bodied. Doughy. Vanilla. Cookie dough. Clean finish.
Golden with white head. Ice cream, chocolate and buns. Sweet, creamy and cloying finish. Fun!
Klart gyllent med lavt skum. Sjokoladekaramell i duften sammen med havre kjeks. Noe av det samme i smaken som nesten ender litt kvalmende. Unødvendig.
Pours clear light golden. Aroma is sweet, malty, chocolate, cream. Taste is sweet, milky, cream, chocolate.
Gulbrun klar med lavt hvitt skum. Lukter kakedeig, brunt sukker og sirup. Middels fylde. Søtlig, noe tung karamell og korn. Tenker lager med tilsatt kakedeig...
Fra flaske på Mi2, Cardinal mars-17: klar lys gylden med flott hvitt skum som varer. Dessertpreget aroma og smak med lys sjokolade (sjokoladesaus) og naturligvis cookies. Too much, and neither refreshing nor appetizing.
355 ml bottle. Clear golden body with a fast disappearing off-white head. Aroma feels mostly like artificial adjuncts known from various candy sweets. Flavor feels rather artificial as well, I got a flashback from my childhood drinking something called “champagnebrus”. How to describe? Fruity urban, spicy with some artificial vanilla and almost no bitterness. Not all bad, but messy and not much of a beer, mostly a novelty.
From bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 13.03.17. Clear golden. Small off-white head. Unexpected aroma of chocolate sauce. Taste of chocolate sauce and vanilla.
Shared bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours clear golden with a big creamy white head. Aroma is sweet, artificial caramel. Taste is moderate sweet, caramel and ice cream. Not my cupper.
Shared bottle at Cardinal, Mandag i annen. Pours almost clear golden. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, cookies, maize, dust, some fruity notes. Tastes slightly sweet with some balancing bitterness. Thin to medium bodied. Interesting.
355 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 6%. Clear golden colour, large white head. Aroma of chocolate chip cookie dough (surprise, surprise). The flavour is first fruity / citrussy, then distinct notes of chocolate chip cookie dough. Weird beer, but good. Dangerously drinkable.
12oz. bottle: This one pours a fairly clear golden color. There was a small white head. Interesting nose. It does smell like cookie dough. It doesn’t taste too bad. A light golden ale in the background. Somewhat sweet cookie dough flavors. Not bad, but i don’t think I want another.
On bottle from Vinmonopolet in Norway, on order. Clear golden color, good foam.
Medium aroma intensity; light choclate cockie with some citrus and nice yeast influence. Medium body & complexity . Some immediate sweetness, balances well. Enjoyable
I was helping a friend move in DC, and his neighbor invited us to her apartment for a party. She had this shit. I’d never heard of it or seen it for sale before. Beer shouldn’t taste like ice cream. I had a taste and stuck with whiskey for the rest of the night.
Golden with a fine white head. Yeasty aroma with definite pastry notes. Flavor is the same as aroma with some vanilla added. Flavors seem artificial. Interesting and fun but one is more than enough.
Had a bottle of this and it eventually reminded me of dessert. On draught its light gold with a white head, smells like cookie crisp cereal and tastes like ice cream.
Tastes light with cheaper scratch n sniff chocolate. Overall well below expectations.
Color is good. Foamy white head. Aroma is of cookie dough. Very cool and about odd. Taste is a light malty ale with cookie dough. Way more like cookies straight out of the oven than I expected. Mouthfeel is a but syrupy. Finish lingers but not too harshly.
*12 oz bottle into pint glass
From a 22oz bottle into a Game of Thrones stem glass. Pours gold with head and lace. Aroma of cookie dough, cocoa, raisins, amber malt. Medium carbonation and significantly sweet mouthfeel. Flavors of cookie dough, milk chocolate, crystal sugar, minerals, slight hay, vanilla. Overall sweet, not a big malt body but nonetheless quite tasty.
Bottle. Pours blonde. Aroma and flavor are vanilla, butter, bready and cookie malts, and very faint chocolate. Medium body.
Strong vanilla aroma, with bready and caramel malts. Smells like cookie dough with a big of earthy hops.
Pours very clear amber color with small wispy head.
Strong vanilla flavor with bready malt. Cookie dough.
Medium bodied with medium high co2, lingering cookie like finish.
Interesting beer. Not really for me though.
This is more cookie dough than beer. Very sweet, lots of butter and chocolate. Slick mouthfeel and thoroughly distasteful.
(Tap) clear, bright yellow golden colour with a small white head; aroma of spice, cookie dough; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Pours a light gold with a thin white head. Aroma of sweet malt, chocolate and cookie dough. Taste follows, it is what it is
bottled - pale golden color. Actually smells and tastes like chocolate chip cookie dough. Not bad - if you like that sort of thing.
Aroma is malts, earthy and a good hint of cookie dough/chocolate. The flavor is malts, citrus, cookie dough/chocolate in the middle and a hoppy/mildly bitter finish. Good enough, though it would have been better suited as a stout with the chocolate chip cookie dough.
Tallahassee, Fl - Whole Foods - 12 oz bottle. Medium golden, sparkling pour, very light bubbly off-white head. Aroma has some green olive juice accents, some vanilla. Flavor is sweet, some raw cake mix, a touch of vanilla, some hard candy sweetness. Mouthfeel is thick enough,