New Belgium / Hopworks Fat Sour Apple Ale
For our new Fat Tire & Friends Collabeeration Pack, we teamed up with Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) from Portland, Ore. Our heroes at HUB pedaled Fat Tire straight to the apple orchard. This slightly sour homage starts out with a snap of tartness, courtesy of Lactobacillus and apple juice, then gets balanced with Fat Tire-inspired malty sweetness and a slight herbal bitterness. Nice ride, HUB!
3.1
188 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
Not very good. Bought in the "friends" 12 pack. So forgettable it went warm. Expected better from hop works. Met my expectations from flat tire.
Clear copper color with a white head of foam. Good lacing. The beer is a funky, herbal, slightly fruity one in the aroma. I get notes of green apple, leather, and homemade hard candy. Slightly sour. Fruity and funky. Medium body and medium carbonation. Not bad, really.
Poured from a 12 OZ bottle into a pint glass. The appearance is a pours a clear darkish golden amber with a medium sized white head. The aroma is heavy with sour apple and wheat. The taste is sour apples, wheat and some yeast. A real good beer.
Seriously?? Thought I drank all of these! WTF! 12oz bottle thanks to Bob I think. Found in the back of the fridge. Pours a clear Amber color with a finger of foamy white head. Aroma and taste of toasted grains, yeast, apple skins, old fruit, Granny Smith apples, and hints of jolly rancher candies.
bottled - sour apple aroma and flavor. Yellow amber coloring. Tart and sour apple flavor. Just ok.
Pours amber with a white head. Aroma is caramel, toast and apple. Taste is tart with very muted sweetness. Medium bodied with a sticky finish. Overall this is not on the same level as the other fat tire collabs, it just does not work as it presents as a mangled mess of an alcopop/cider/beer.
I don’t really like Fat Tire to begin with so perhaps "fat tire inspired" beers aren’t for me. The sour apple version didn’t change my mind, though in their defense, the apple part was the best part of this beer.
Bottle. Pours a light amber color with small tan head. Mostly funky aroma with apple notes. Sour flavor with a bit of sweetness from caramel malt. Medium bodied with sour finish and a bit of hops. Different.
12 oz bottle. Gold color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of Granny Smith, grain, light funk. Taste is of tart apple, grain, hay, and light funk.
12 ounce bottle to wine glass
A: Light amber, slightly hazy, small tan head-quickly disappears
Aroma: grains
Taste: low bitterness, sourness comes out, sweet
Mouthfeel: tart, long sweet and sour finish
Overall: good sour beer, ok to repeat not look for
Drank: 9/18/2016 8:10 PM
Bottle from collab pack. Pours clear amber. Aroma is caramel and toasted malt, light raisins, and faint funk. Flavor is sweet malt profile, light tartness, and faint green apple before drying out to more familiar Fat Tire malt character. Medium body.
From a bottle. Pours clear amber with a fizzy off white head. Tastes like tart apple, doughy malt, corn, and some toffee. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like doughy malt, musky corn, toffee, and some green apple.
Clear copper with a bubbly white head. Grass and barley with the tart granny smith bite. Palate has sweet aftertones. Decent work with the apple addition.
Picked up single 12-oz bottle from Heritage Liquors in Maplewood, Minnesota. Pours a clear golden amber colored brew with a cream off-white head that slowly dissipates and leaves a creamy film top. Aroma of golden grain malt, some hard pitted fruits, a touch of floral hops and some tart apple. Taste is medium bodied, flavors of caramel malt, some light tart apples, floral hops and a touch of bread yeast. Finish is semi-tart at first then a light apple and caramel aftertaste.
Barely any apple character in either aroma or flavor. Aroma is a little skunk and mild ale. Flavor’s tart and a bit fruity. Soft texture. Bland ale finish.
Pours clear gold with little head. Nose is apples and herbal tartness and a little skunk. Flavor is apples. . .somewhat sour and somewhat stale apples. Virtually no finish. Just unpleasant and boring.
This is more a cider than any sour/wild beer. thin head lots of bubbles. This is cider my friend it is not a brett beer it is not a sour. It is drinkable by the masses though. Aroma is light apple. Flavor cardboard and apple juice.
Poured from 12 oz bottle into tulip glass.
Pours a thin off white head that drops quickly. Abundant streaming carbonation in a clear amber color. Aroma of tart apples and bready malt. Flavor is similar and the tartness is somewhat puckering in the mouth. Overall a decent brew in a style that is not necessarily my personal preference.
Pours an amber color with a white head. Aroma is caramel malts and apple. Flavor has some sourness but pretty light. Has some sweetness on the finish from the caramel malts.
On tap at St Augustine’s, Vancouver. Clear golden amber pour. Aroma is sweet, candy and fruit, some sour apple - pretty simple overall. Taste is a little sour, definitely candy and apple notes, pretty clean and simple but decently well done. An interesting effort, but nothing special.
Bottle in Seattle. Clear amber, small white bubbly foam. Vaguely apple aroma, quite sweet and thin. Thin body and fizzy, sweet cider with a malty backbone. Really odd, white wine and cider with a amber malt foundation. Sticky sweet finish. Strange, and not working at all.
Clear, golden pour with a white head. The aroma has sour apple and white grape. It has a light body with fizzy carbonation. The taste is tart with a slightly sweeter finish.
Unclear light orange amber. Thin white head. Biscuit and caramel. Sour apple is there but restrained. Touch of tang. Crisp. Not bad.
Apple, hops, wheat aroma. Taste is tart and sour Apple. Sour Apple cider like. Interesting.
Poured from bottle.
Aroma of cereal and apple juice.
Appearance is cloudy orange amber with a bit of head.
Tasting apple, citrus (mostly lemon), some dry malt. cucumber, not much else.
Palate is moderately sour .
Overall, this reminds me that I don’t like sour apples.
Aroma is apples, fruit and earthy/slightly dirty. The flavor is apples, mild tropical fruit, malts and a mix of sour, tart and mild sweetness in the finish.
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Clean light amber color. Mild tartness in a shallow Golden Ale, no evidence of apple (cider).
Timid.
Not bad. Sour apple aromas and flavours. Kind of fake tasting. But not too terrible..quaffable.
Faint sour aroma. Clear dark copper color with medium white head. Not too much on the bitter end. Average flavor but easy to drink.
Orange body not much head. Sweet slight Apple aroma. Sweet Apple taste with a touch of funk but really not sour enough at all.