Sour Beer indifferent to my notepad |
Ah yes, the moment you may have been waiting for. New Belgium Brewery. The Mecca of micro-brews. The New Belgium Brewery itself is something to behold. As a company they’ve managed to reduce their carbon footprint so much that you may as well call them completely self sufficient. The process of making beer itself produces quite a lot of waste, either in cooked barley, waste water, and CO2 from all the energy required to brew it. But New Belgium, among other more modern breweries out there, has taken the initiative to reduce their energy use from carbon fuels by becoming completely wind and solar powered and making their natural gas usage more efficient. By treating their waste water with aerobic and anaerobic microbes, they are able to not only clean their waste water completely, but also harness the excess methane gas to power an on site turbine that in turn produces more green energy. They even sell their spent grain from making the wort to feed cattle. Frickin’ awesome!
Elite Fat Tire assault bikes. |
Fat Tire: Just in case you haven’t had a Fat Tire in the last 20 years of its existence, I’ll do my best to critique it. If you have, you know full well how good it is. Maybe not the best beer ever, but what it lacks in pizzazz it impresses with in cool, collected style and taste. It’s the kind of amber by which all others must be judged. Sweet, caramely, and down right refreshing. Damn, makes me wish I were drinking one right now.
1554 Black Ale: The darkest of NB’s brews, it’s based on a Belgium dark lager recipe that the master brewer picked up on while making his historic bike tour of Belgium way back in 1989. It was the year 1554 that it was first introduced. Dark (duh), malty, smooth, and hypnotizing, it is one of my favorite NB beers.
Bier Du Marz: Though Beir Du Marz is no longer made, it was NB’s “octoberfestiest” beer that they produced, and damned if it wasn’t good and deserves some space in the hall of great beers in the sky, where all beers go to die.
Kick Sour Beer: For their in-house specials that you can’t find bottled, NB had an array of sour beers on tap. This one was a fall seasonal sour that combined pumpkin and cranberry with the jaw-curling power of sour beer. Its smoothest sour yet and smacking of starbursts a little.
A space bug among us? |
La Folie: Their original sour beer, this is, amongst some, the nectar by which magical space bugs travel through space and time to secretly infest our planet and suckle upon. Personally, the space bugs can have it, but Ali thinks it’s the best sour yet. I’ve also been a little suspicious lately that Ali is indeed a space bug.
Rating: 139 out of 203 weaponized fortune cookies.