New Belgium Lips of Faith - Prickly Passion Saison
Peter
3.2
178 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
On tap. Poured a clear golden copper color with a small white head that fades quickly. Aroma is fruity and sweet with a lot of yeasty esters, over ripe banana and faint wheat. Tastes of passion fruit and pear with a lot of yeasty notes, banana, bubblegum, sweet wheat malt and a touch of spice. Medium body with good carbonation and a lingering sweetness.
22 oz bomber. Pours a mostly clear orangish amber with a nice white head. Aroma is Belgian yeast and fruity with pear and apple. Taste is funky and fruity and hides the ABV very well. Nice saison.
Hazy golden color out of the bottle with a fizzy off white head. Light, spritzy fruit loop nose. Fruity beer with what I assume is passion fruit. Some strawberry notes, strong spice, honey and dark sugar sweetness. Full mouthfeel.
Decent looking and A very fruity saison. It has an intriguing aroma featuring apple cider, pear, apricot, and biscuit. The flavor is also very fruity with plenty of yeast too, imparting a light funk. Lingering aftertaste. Only slight presence of alcohol. Medium body. Unique and interesting brew, but a bit too much funk for my tastes.
Gold pour, white head. Some tropical fruit and yeast flavors and it’s pretty good, but not great.
Draft. Poured a clear medium orange color. The head was one finger high and off white. Smelled of hay, clove, fleshy fruit, and white pepper. Medium bodied and delicately sweet. Earthy hay, clove, white pepper, and pale malt flavors. Decent enough.
August 30, 2012 bottle at BVery’s tasting. Light orange pour with limited head. Citrus, fruit, spice and yeast in the aroma and taste.
Bottle: Clear gold beer with a white head. Aroma is tropical fruit, passion fruit and wheat.
Bomber. Golden pour, small white head. Citrus/pear/pineapple thing going on here - good spritz from the carbonation, I’m really enjoying this.
Bottle at the Funky 8, Brooklyn, NYC. Quite sweet, not very mellow or refined. Has some sugary fruits throughout, some yeasty malts. Sits a bit heavy on the palate. Not super drinkable (as a good saison should be), though there are some interesting aspects to this beer.
Bottle. Sweet fruity mango and pineapple aroma. Cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Yeasty, bready malt, sweet mango/passion fruit flavor with a light dry bitter finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation.
On tap at Blue Palms during RBSG 2012. Sweet generic tropical fruits, similar to fruit punch or ’tropical’ flavored chewing gum, some apricot as well. Oversweet, flabby body. Laughable to call this a saison.
Clear gold. Aroma has an aroma that I get with a lot of NBB Belgian beers, kind of dusty, eggy yeast but not in an awful way, some citrus as well. Pretty sweet taste, thick texture, not as light and crisp as I was hoping.
From tap at Blue Palms. Pours hazy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is toasted malty. Light yeasty. Bitter, caramelish, dry phenolic and light spiced. Bitter and phenolic dry finish.
22 ounce bottle. Served in a tulip, the beer pours a mostly clear orange/amber color with about an inch off-white head. Head retention and lacing are both good. Aroma is mostly fruity, it smells like pears, passion fruit, green apples, bready malt and some Belgian yeast. Taste is similar to the aroma, it tastes like pears, passion fruit, bready malt and some banana, and there’s also a lingering earthy bitter finish. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s a bit syrupy and smooth with moderate carbonation. I think it’s a nice brew, it’s worth a try. $8.99 a bottle.
I guess it looks fine for a saison. Other than that it sucks. Overly sweet and floral tasting. Like drinking candles or something. Not something i would recommend to anyone.
Bottle. POurs clear bright orange with a soft sudsy white head that fades to a thin film. Aroma is strong bread malt and booze with subtle sugars. Taste is more malty bread with subtle yeast and a warming alcohol sweetness. Palate is medium and warming with a dry heavy finish.
On tap at blue palms brew house. Nose is earthy, not much fruit. Flavor is pretty standard Saison--I'm not getting the eponymous fruit at all. Solid but kind of meh.
nah, way to sweet and fake fruit candy syrupy. Some Saison yeast characteristics come through later
A clear reddish orange beer. The aroma is dominated by the passion fruit as well as yeast, but it’s not very pleasant. The flavor is fruity but slightly bitter with a medium body.
tap - Pours lightly hazy orange with a small white head. It has a fruity, yeasty, slightly funky aroma. The flavor is sweet with some mild, drying bitterness in the finish and a hint of farmhouse funk. It’s medium bodied and on the sweet side for the style. Overall it works very well and in my opinion is a little underrated.
Bottle. Pours dark orange with a thin light beige head that leaves no lacing. Aroma is sweet fruit, mostly pear. Pear, tropical fruit notes, yeast, some light barnyard and earthy bitterness after everything else. On the full side of medium. Finishes with mild sweetness. Not bad at first but less so as it warmed up a bit. Took a chance on this one and it didn’t really deliver.
Draft. Pours a thin white, medium duration white head, with some lacing, over a slightly hazy amber (SRM 8) body.....nose is vinous, peach, melon, light banana/bubblegum, clove...taste is sweet melon, clove banana/bubblegum, honey, with light sweetness throughout....mouth feel light of medium, alcohol hidden, carbonation adds a pleasant foamy quality. This is a very rich sweet Saison. It is too sweet for the style, and is under hopped. BJCP 7/3/12/4/6
Pretty thick mouthfeel and flavor for a Davison. It is not light and crisp at all. Taste is sweet with a little bit of tart citrus finish. Decent alcohol but won’t be having again.
Bottle at home, from my Minneapolis Town Hall glass; Pours clear orange, thin white head, poor lacing. Nose is clean pears and apple, light estery yeast, tropical fruit, light spice. Flavours of pear, confused fruit, yeasty, estery, kind of disappointed in this one.
<>650 ml bottle
This wasn’t the best Lips of Faith that I have tried. In fact despite being solid I poured about a third down the drain just so I could move on to something different. I love the experimentation but in this case it didn’t work out well.
Aroma / Appearance - The cloudy coppery body glows with a dim orange hue. Wisps of white head release cotton candy, pear slices, Jolly Ranchers, and traces of a floral mustard.
Flavor / Palate - The tart bite that hits the senses first contains bursts of pears, hay, cotton candy, and powdered sugar. Next comes a mouthfeel of elephant ear fresh from the stand of a state fair vendor. The fruity finish is what I expected but still becomes a bit boring after a while. If this had only been a 12 ounce bottle I would have had no problems finishing it off. 22 ounces was just a little too sweet though.
Pouring at Where the Wild Beers Are. Sweet musky fruit on the nose. Medium bodied, malt, toast, and a good amount of musk. Medium bodied, caramel. Malt, toast, very faint musk on the finish.
Bottle at WtWBA Brooklyn 2012. Pours a golden body with white lacing. Aroma is floral, bitter hops, bitter citrus, and light smoke. Mouthfeel is carbonated with notes of bitter citric hops, smoke, malts, and earthy floral flavor.
Thanks to thirdeye11 for sharing this bottle.
The beer pours a yellow color with a white head.. The aroma is heavy on the fruit with some Belgian yeast, a little bit of alcohol and some biscuit malt. The flavor is quite a bit more complex than the aroma. I get a ton of prickly pear notes, as well as some passion fruit and Belgian yeast. There is also some nice white pepper notes as well as some other mixed spice and alcohol. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. I liked this one.
Slightly hazy nice orange coloured body with a honey glow and a thinnish, one centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of coriander seed, yeast, wheat, curacao, apricots and a touch of nutmeg - fairly nice! Medium-bodied; Assertive malt and wheat flavour at first with a bunch of yeast, some wheat, a lot of coriander seed and a touch of grassiness at the end - nice. Aftertaste is very barnyardie with a lot of yeast, a ton of herbal flavours and a good grassy character that shows off the saison-y flavours. Overall, a nice beer that shows very well but doesn’t show much fruit or sweetness. Still, a very nice beer that if you are a fan of the style, a good choice to take. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago (Lincoln Park), Illinois on 04-December-2011 for US$9.99 sampled at home in Washington on 26-April-2012.