New Belgium Lips of Faith - Fresh Hop

Fresh pickings for some lickings. This beauty of an ale boasts a fresh crop of cascade, centennial, and amarillo hops. We’re talking from vine to brew within 24 hours fresh. Citrusy. Soft fruit tones. Fresh hop IPA.

3.7

197 reviews

Fort Collins, United States

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2.9 Bronzed, silken head, thin but nice. Floral bitter nose. Body is quite acerbic and plays bitter sour notes on the palate. Finish is warm with fresh grainy tannins.

3.6 Bottle. Pours a dark golden amber color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is green hops, pine, light fruits and some moderately sweet caramel. The flavor is piney hops, light fruity, caramel, lightly toasted malts. Decent enough.

3.6 Bomber from Cedar Bluff Discount Wine in Knoxville. Yellow-gold pour with a medium off-white and good retention. Aroma is pine, orange peel, sweet malts. Tastes are earthy hops, salt and peppery spice, grapefruit, toasty, pine, resiny. Bitterness is up front and then the toasty malts. Thin to medium palate.

3.4 Bottle shared by jayhawk73. Thanks Jeff. The beer appears transparent and golden hued. A thick white cap rests atop the beer, leaving some decent lacing on the tulip. The aroma brings some pleasant hop aromas, subtle earthiness, light pine. Good flavor. Hop forward and pretty fresh. Easy to drink. The finish offers a light yet lasting bitterness. Carbonation level is a bit low. I would like the aroma and flavor to be bolder and more aggressive. This one has potential, but lacks that in your face quality that makes fresh hop brews so delectable. Overall, pretty good. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 12-15-2011

4.1 22oz bottle $5.99 Bright orange color, great head, looks good. Smells herbal as well as citrusy, good. Taste is a bit if citrus but I mostly get melon rind, green hoppiness, a bit vegetal but good. I’ve already been through three bottles in less than a week, good stuff. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-08-2011 21:17:47

3.9 In short: A straightforward old-school, clean, medium dry, golden-blonde IPA with citrusy/grassy hopping. Very satisfyingly How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed probably fresh, a few weeks after purchase, bottle forwarded to me by mcberko, thanks a lot Matt The look: Mostly clear golden blond body topped by a large white head with good retention In long: Nose is typical citrusy and grassy hops with a focus on grapefruits and sundried yellowed grass. Nothing original here but with all the new breeds of hops popping up left right and center it is surprisingly refreshing to go back to the good old fashion hops and with no Citra, Nelson Sauvin and friends. Taste is equally straight to the point. A clean low sweetness malt bill that is somewhere between a baguette and crisp crackers, a tiny bit of honey and some residual sugars, a good amount of grapefruity and dry yellowed grass hops. Bitterness level is medium and it leads to a relatively dry finish. Well levelled medium carbonation. It clocks at 7% but I’d session it all night, this is very easy to drink. Nothing original here, but the execution is flawless. I really like this beer, and once I was finished drinking the beer I hugged the bottle and I told it I really liked the moment we spent together, and if only I could have a dollar for every time I had a discussion with a bottle of beer I could pay the psychiatric help I obviously need.

4.2 Wonderful hop aroma. Pine like hop flavor. Clean hop bite. Golden color reflects good malt character.

3.5 Clear copper pour with a white fluffy head.. The aroma is citrusy and a little bread. Taste is similar and overall, pretty good stuff.

3.6 Tap at Max’s Taphouse, Baltimore - 22/05/12. Clear golden with a foamy off-white head. Big citrus nose, grapefruit, pine, grass. Taste follows nose perhpas lacking a bit of malt? Medium bodied with a dry finish.

3.8 Bottle split with mcberko. Pours a semi-clear yellow amber with a bubbly, frothy head. Aroma of citrus, burnt caramel, grass, resin. Flavour is beautiful! All of the above, like licking fresh wood, quite earthy - like nature in a glass. Fresh, silky, medium dry, balanced. Nice.

3.9 22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden with a medium, foamy off-white head - medium retention. Aroma of grapefruity hops, toasted hazelnuts, with a very toffee malt backbone. Flavour of floral and citrusy hops, some light peach-like fruit, bitter grapefruit notes, and biscuity, caramel malt backing. Not sure if I would guess this was fresh hopped, maybe somewhere in between fresh and dry. Nevertheless, a well-made, well-balanced, flavourful IPA. Excellent.

3.5 Bottle - Looks great, clear amber with a big foamy white head. Pungent pine hops on the nose, with some citrus rind and lightly toasted bread hops. Pretty big sweet maltiness in the taste, with citrusy hop resin that builds into a sticky, bitter pine finish. Well-carbonated and slick, pretty big.

3.7 Decent fresh hop IPA, though I got an old bottle. Earthy, green and raw. Fluffy carbonation. Easy-drinking texture. Mild to moderate bitterness, as expected with a fresh hop. 70 IBUs is questionable. Or the doughy-sweet malts are obscuring some bitterness.

3.7 This beer pours a clear orange-gold color with a medium foamy white head that burns away steadily. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of hops, pine and malt. Medium body with a piney hops character and notes of sweet malt and fruit. The finish is moderately bitter with a piney hops aftertaste. Above average overall.

3.2 A good IPA. Easy to drink and smooth going down. Can taste the citrusy notes in it. Would go well with a steak or other BBQ.

4.0 22oz bomber pours clear light copper with gold hues and full smooth near tight off white head. The aroma offers up sort of citrus tangelo, some mango and some peach mixing with mild levels of spicy Belgian yeastiness. I also get other fruit notes like red apple and kiwi. The taste has a classic even mix of Belgian spicy yeast and various citrus hop notes. This is crisp and leaves a nice spicy Belgo yeast to citrus hoppiness lingering deep into the after taste.

3.7 Bottle: pours clear pale golden, frothy white head that's bubbly. Nose is orange, clean, yeast, grass, floral hops, fresh pine forest. More grassy, floral hops, citrus, fresh, earthy malts, medium, dry bitterness, not overwhelming bitterness and quite drinkable.

3.7 Thanks to thirdeye11 for sharing this bottle. (This is reviewed from notes, it was drank fresh). The beer pours a yellow color with a white head. The aroma is full of pine and orange notes from the hops, as well as a hint of biscuit malt. The aroma is very fresh smelling. The flavor is full of big, resinous and sticky pine notes, with a little bit of orange citrus. There is also some bread from the malt and a low amount of bitterness. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

3.3 22oz bottle poured into tulip glass. No bottled on date that I can find. Bought just a couple weeks ago. Aroma: Peaches, oranges, floral hops, malt, caramel, grass, Appearance: golden yellow with a slight orange tint. hardly no head that faded immediately. laces glass nicely. few bubbles rising to the top Taste: medium sweet, mild sour, mild bitter Palate: medium body and slick texture. lively carbonation on the back of the tongue but not much up front. finish is medium bitter and mild sour. bitter lingers for a bit but not too overpowering. Overall: Very good balanced IPA but not worth the price in a bomber for the taste or the ABV. Nothing really special. Would much rather have a Firestone Walker Double Jack for less money and higher ABV.

3.7 On tap at kelly's. Pretty similar to stone ipa. I thought I was drinking it for a while. A little maltier-more biscuit, more caramel. Hops are kinda soapy.

3.6 Good ipa. Dark copper. Nice hops. Delicious. Lasting bitterness sits on palate. Nice lacing.

3.7 Pours a clear amber color with a large frothy white head. Good head retention. Nice fresh hops in the aroma, floral, citrus and green. The taste is green hops, floral and almost vegetal. Medium-full bodied. Nice.

4.4 Bomber with some bad ass labeling. Pours a clear orangish golden color with an enormous almost three finger white head. Great retention and lots of sticky lacing. Tons of citrusy, floral hops. Lots of delicious aromas. Piney resin notes as well. Delicious juicy citrusy hops. Grapefruit, with some leafy oily hop resin. A little malt sweetness but it’s a hop bomb. Bitter dry finish. Smooth and creamy. Perfect carbonation. Great mouthfeel and excellent bitterness. I love it’s juicy hop bite you get at first. Probably my favorite so far from New Belgium.

3.6 Sampled on 3/16/2012. This IPA pours a medium orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Medium sized white foamy head, with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is caramel, fruity and sweet, grapefruity and citrusy. A medium bodied IPA The malts are caramel and sweet. The hops are grapefruity, citrusy and herbal with that extra little herbal/vegetative/garlicky taste from the fresh hops. It’s more in the background on this beer. Not a huge hop bomb, but the hop flavors last a while. Decent carbonation. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

3.3 Pours clear, deceptively heavy. Fresh aroma, strata out great but ends with a slight soapy ending that grows as the consumption increases.

3.8 20120402 bomber from Honeygo. At this point I can’t imagine it’s still fresh-hopped, but tasty IPA anyway and it’s held up very well. Easy on the sweet malts, especially for a new Belgium beer, and really forward with the Centennials. Soft bodied but plenty effy, with a quick, pithy, brisk finish. Quite enjoyed this one, and at eight bucks I might even buy another. The overall success of most of the recent influx of New Belgium beers has been a nice surprise.

3.8 A - Pours a clear golden-orange with a finger of frothy white head. The head fades down at a normal pace leaving behind a thick frothy ring around the glass and some lace. S - Aroma is full of piney, earthy, and citrus hops with a touch of sweet malt in the background. T - Starts off with some fresh earthy and citrus hops with a bit of bitterness. Through the middle, some stronger pine notes come through with some more bitterness and a touch of sweet malt. The finish is a mix of grapefruit and earthy hop flavors with a bit of sweet malt. M - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth with a dry, bitter, resiny, and earthy finish. D - Very drinkable. Good level of hop flavor with nice complexity and bitterness.

3.6 On tap 1702, pours light copper big white head. Dank and pine aroma. Well balanced flavors of dried grass, toast and pine bitterness.

3.1 Name: LoF Fresh Hop IPA Date: February 19, 2012 Mode: Bottle Source: Crabapple Bottle Shop Appearance: clear gold, frothy white head, heavy icy lace Aroma: sweet malt aroma, fresh floral hops, spicy Flavor: sweet malt flavor, bready, plenty of hops, light bitterness Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20 Rating: 3.1/5.0 Drinkability: 7/10 Score: ** /4

3.7 On tap. A nice gold color with a white head and lacing. An aroma of fresh, citrusy hops with a bit of resin. The flavor is the same, with a slightly fizzy texture and a smooth, bitter aftertaste.