New Holland Phi
The ratio Phi was discovered by ancient scholars. It was used to design the Acropolis in Greece and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. DaVinci determined the human body was proportioned using this same ratio and applied it throughout his work. Nature uses this "divine ratio" in the design of everything from DNA to planets and galaxies. So we asked ourselves a question. "What would be the result of a beer designed on these principles?" Here it is, a beer recipe generated by Phi. Is it divine? You be the judge.
3.4
155 reviews
Holland, United States
Community reviews
Tan with little head, this beer has a strong fruity, malty and slightly sour, alcoholic taste. Conflicting, but interesting and good. Suggested with dark chocolate.
12 oz bottle. Clear orange color with rapidly disappearing white head that withered into a thin cap and left only a touch of lace on the glass. Aroma is of light soy sauce, malty molasses, and the adhesive used to make casts. Tastes of light cider vinegar, white wine, and tart cherry. Lightly acidic on the tongue.
Pours golden orange with a small white head. Fruity aroma, orange especially. Nice sour sweetness. Decent.
Very similar to Pilgrims Dole in appearance and arome. Some coffee in taste with no alcohol in aroma and taste. A very nice strong ale.
12 oz bottle. Pours a clear orange golden color with a white head. Aroma is floral and tart with acidic overtones. Flavor is lemony sour with hints of floral,pine and yeast. A bit too sour for my taste buds and lacking flavor as well. Average.
From a 12 oz. long neck bottle with a blurb on neck label, where the word "ale" appears, another blurb along the right side of label, the numbers 3 and 5 are highlight on the front label.
Poured a cloudy golden hued orange with a foamy white head that settled into a thin bubbly lacing.
Aromas of a tart, vinous orange fruitiness that mingles with the alcohol, a bit herbal and mineral, and a touch of grain.
Good carbonation and a crisp, dryish, creamy smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel.
Pleasant tasting, grainy with a touch of caramel, a soft sour orange, a spicy herbalness, the hops have a light bite, the alcohol is in the background, but you can taste it, and a dry yeasty and caramel finish.
I’m not sure how this is aging, I know I liked when it finish came out, seems to me to be a little more tart and the alcohol is a more pronounced than what I remember from last year.
2004 vintage. 12 oz. bottle. cellared til fall 2006.... poured and looked like thick rootbeer wih a small tan head. smelled of dark fruit and sweet malt. started with dark sweet taste of prune and roasted malt then quickley shifted to a more astringent, coffee and dry tartness. ....a difficult flavor for me.....
I tried this a while back in Sprinkle’s store and thought it was okay, but upon further examination (and potentially having a bad bottle) this stuff isn’t that good or what I remember, at all. Pours a rather hazy orangy amber with bit of a white head, falling off quickly. The nose is creamy and sweet with strong ctirusy lemon and orange aromas. This beer feels relatively full in the mouth, but also a bit chalky. The flavors are a bit unpleasant. Sour, really sour and not in any well orchestrated way. Lemon and pine needles and a bit sweet and creamy. This just isn’t a combination of things that works out. The after taste is bitter pine needles and burnt wood. I’m not a big fan.
Different than I remember when I tasted it a while back, but I didnt rate it at that point. Now I like it a lot less. Smells sweet and malty, like bread, light fruits, maybe banana. The flavor is very sour- especially in the finish. Fruits liek grapes and apples are there.
Dark dark beer with a supermalty aroma, the taste is of a sweet and sour stout, and simply not to my liking. Shame on them for their $5 12 oz bottle of non delicious beer, but at least it has some alcohol in it.
Bottle, at least a year old.
Black brown body with a light gray skin of head that lasts. Nose is a coffee blue jellybean and some alcohol notes that hit the back of my nose like rubbing alcohol does. I don’t like the taste, dry astringent grape flavor with the acidic black patent and coffee note. Something is sour here. Not pleasant.
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Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange with a thin fizzy head that is kept going by plenty of carbonation bubbles. Aroma is yeasty and fruity along with a sight effervescence and a touch of caramel. Caramel and butterscotch dominate the taste with sour fruit in the background. Finishes warm.
12oz bottle. Clear and copper. Spotty white head with a slight white ring. Sweet, apple aroma. Figgy, caramel and bready. Full and mildly lively. Super fruity and cloying. Sticky apples initially. Then slight caramel notes. Fruity notes, such as tart cherries and raspberries and prunes. Finishes tart and sour. Lingering sugary malt sweetness. Satisfying and smooth. Esters abundant.
a strong beer, also has unique flavor, leaves an impression though hard to figure out what that is. a pleasant try, not a repeat buy
Very unsual tasting beer. Really not sure what style of beer this beer is suppose to be. At 9% abv, it clearly is a strong beer, but has an odd combination of sweet malt flavor, and a very apparent sourness. Phi pours to a murky, deep golden, to amber color. with a thick, white head, that fades, and a soft to moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is sweet malty, with some vinous notes as well. The palate is full, and slightly slick on the tongue, with flavors of sweet malt, and toffee, paired with some estery fruit, and vinous sourness. Phi finishes with more sweet malt and fruit up front, then ends vinous and sour, with sourness lingering. Unsual beer. I wasn’t crazy about it when I first tasted it, but as I worked on it, I enjoyed the sweet and sour nature of this beer, but it isn’t a beer I would want to drink alot of. Would make a good aperitif beer. I liken it to Campari, and it would also work with rich, hearty dishes, as the sourness could cut though the richness of hearty foods.
Hmmm.... I thought this was a lager from the flavor. Aroma of dark malts with a hint of raisins. Taste was basically OK, but it developed a pronounced unplesant sourness while it warmed.
Semi-clear orange-amber color with a white head. Malty, fruity, yeasty aroma. Flavor is citrus, but is a bit sour and somwhat cloying. Not that good, but drinkable. Strange that some people here have described it as dark brown or black in color, while others have described it as more amber, golden, or orange.
Deep black with nice moka head. Sweet choclate and salty soya in aroma. Rather bizarre taste of sour coffee, astringent. Sweet and rich, and rather cloying. May 2005.
Draft at Rich O’s - Pours golden with a mostly receding white head. Strange fruity aroma. Taste is a bit sour, cloyingly sweet, with a strange yeast profile. The alcohol was not too evident, but all in all this was not a good beer. A failed experiment in my book.
This bottled brew poured a medium sized head of frothy fine to large sized long lasting brown colored bubbles that left behind a fair lacing. The body contained average carbonation, was nearly opaque and dark ruby red brown in color. Its aroma contained notes of nice dark malt roasted malt . Its mouth feel is initially tingly smooth with a mild vinous palate and a aftertaste. Its flavor contained mild caramel toffee roasted dark beer brown malts notes. All-in-all very nice brew.
Bottle. Clear amber in color with a nice lasting tan head. Sweet and malty aroma. Caramel notes. Sweet caramel and chocolatety flavor. Raisiny and plum notes. Medium bodied. Finish is fruity. Nice beer.
(12oz bottle, thanks Barry) Small, persistent beige head that leaves nice lacing atop clear, very dark mahogany body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, plum, some anise. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, some chocolate, raisin, sour, burnt. Watery medium body, alcohol fairly well concealed.
On tap.
Poured a clear amber with farily low carbonation and little head. Dried sour fruit aroma -- dried apples & cherries, dates, some sour grass and some malt. Rather tart dried fruit flavor with decent malt support and medium-light hop bitterness. Never shows its 8.7% ABV. Medium body, slightly thin palate. Dry tart aftertaste. Intriguing beer that I’m not likely to drink more than one of at a time.
A lot going on inthe aroma, light fruits, ginger, clove and allspice, honey and malt. Clear orange-gold color, almost no head formation. Fruity flavor, citrus and peach, a bit of spice and hop bitterness in a very short, clean, and dry finish. Medium body with moderately low carbonation. Truly unique, complex aroma with a crisp, clean flavor, they seem at once at odds with each other and complimentary - hard to describe. I would buy this again.
sour and fruity, orange in color. this tastes a lot less alcoholic than 8.7%. it has a relatively dry finish to it. i bought it because of it’s claim of llimited availability. i’d drink it again.
Bottle, 04. Deep mahogany brown pour, little head, but decent carbonation still. Smelled and tasted a bit aged, and was pretty good. Malty and a tad sweet, with light sour darker fruits. Only a tiny bit tart. Tasty.
Bottled. 2005 version. Very odd. Taste is deeply fruity, with sour cherries predominating. Really overruns any malt profile for me. I can see others get the same impression. Not a terrible beer, but I wonder if this is what they intended?
Bottle 2005: Intrigued by the label, thats why I gave this a higher overall rating. After reading the label one would imagine this to be some mind blowing brew, well....Poured out a dark brown color with a slow lacing head. The aroma was of sour grapes and fruit. Taste is a bit watery and almost wine-like with a slight note of malt but mostly sour fruit. Not bad, not great.
2005 version. Orange honey looking pale beer with little head and a fairly clean look. The aroma is quite pungent and sour; full of fruit. There is cherry noticable and a strong sourness along with an alcohol character. Wine like flavors with a smooth and fairly full palate. Sour fruits, cherry. Fairly decent character and nice sourness.
Brune foncée et trouble, grosses bulles savonneuses. Arômes de craies, de minéraux (talc ?), annonçant déjà une présence acide. Brèves flaveurs de malt grillé et chocolaté et de fruits rouge laissant ensuite place au cuir, feuille de fenouille et à l’acidité. Corps d’épaisseur mince à semi mince, carbonatation active. Problèmes ? Bouteille, Bello Vino, Michigan, août 2005.