Hop Grail
La Folie Grand Reserve Honey Saffron
- Fruited Sour
- 7.7% ABV
- Label approved Oct 10, 2019
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90 seek it out · 80 would buy again · 70 fine, wouldn't seek it · 60 disappointing · 40 flawed or drain pour
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New Belgium Brewing Company's Fruited Sour. Label approved 10 October 2019.
Stronger than 91% of the 750 Fruited Sour labels we've read.
From the label“FOEDER AGED SOUR ALE WITH AFRICAN HONEY, AFGHAN SAFFRON & ROSE PETALS”
How to serve it
- Serve at
- 42–48°F (6–9°C)
- Glass
- Teku: a stemmed bowl that gathers aroma, built for sour and hoppy beers
About 220–270 calories and 18–31 g carbs
About 150 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Fruited Sour. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
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About this beer
This is the 37th of 94 labels we have from New Belgium Brewing Company, Inc. It is one of 154 fruited sour labels approved in October 2019. Its label was approved 15 days after it was submitted.
Brew it
A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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Style: SourBrewery: New Belgium Brewing Company, Inc.