HOORAY for New Belgium!!

**SenorWanderer** · 08-24-2007, 01:31 AM

I just finished off a 12pk of New Belgium's Skinny Dip. YUMMY! Makes me want to play around with kafir lime. Anyway, half of the bottles didn't have labels on them. They had a little bit of glue residue, but no labels. In a previous life that would have annoyed me just a little bit, but in my current incarnation as an aspiring homebrewer I found it very convenient. Must have been a bad day at the label machine!

anthrobe · 08-24-2007, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SenorWanderer

I just finished off a 12pk of New Belgium's Skinny Dip. YUMMY! Makes me want to play around with kafir lime. Anyway, half of the bottles didn't have labels on them. They had a little bit of glue residue, but no labels. In a previous life that would have annoyed me just a little bit, but in my current incarnation as an aspiring homebrewer I found it very convenient. Must have been a bad day at the label machine!

I had that once and wrote to them. They sent me free posters!!! I really didn't care either but why not get some free stuff

gonzoflick · 08-24-2007, 02:30 AM

What type of beer is the sknny dip?

**Yuri_Rage** · 08-24-2007, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by gonzoflick

What type of beer is the sknny dip?

It's a panty dropper...

ColoradoXJ13 · 08-24-2007, 02:36 AM

They just released their new seasonal, called Mothership Wit, an organic belgian witbier, i'll try it soon.

anthrobe · 08-24-2007, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ColoradoXJ13

They just released their new seasonal, called Mothership Wit, an organic belgian witbier, i'll try it soon.

Can't wait to see it. I am waiting for the annual Tour De Fat bike festival they put on. Will be here in Tempe in October. Had a blast last year!! Maybe they will be serving that one up?

Got Trub? · 08-24-2007, 03:37 AM

I have about 20 cases of New Belgium bottles I use for all my homebrew. Great bottles - even use them for highly carbonated hefe's without issue. Hardest part was drinking all that beer inside them so they could be used for homebrew...

**Yuri_Rage** · 09-06-2007, 02:44 AM

I just bought a six of Mothership. It's not bad, but it pours REALLY clear for a wit, and it's probably the lightest colored beer I've ever seen. If you swirl the bottle at the end of the pour, as is usually recommended with a wit, you can get a bit of yeast into suspension and achieve a slight cloudiness. The aroma is definitely Belgian wit - yeasty with sweet citrus notes, but there is a slight stale note in the nose as well. The flavor kicks Blue Moon's ass (go figure), but the staleness from the aroma carries through just enough to make it only a good beer rather than a great one.

All in all, it's not bad. It's the best commercial wit from the US that I've had to date.

david_the_greek · 09-06-2007, 03:32 AM

Sadly Detroit is not fortunate enough to get good deliveries from them. I think they just broke the Chicago market right? I'll get some when I can and will have to lust after/try to copy till they do deliver on my side of town.

ColoradoXJ13 · 09-06-2007, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Yuri_Rage

I just bought a six of Mothership. It's not bad, but it pours REALLY clear for a wit, and it's probably the lightest colored beer I've ever seen. If you swirl the bottle at the end of the pour, as is usually recommended with a wit, you can get a bit of yeast into suspension and achieve a slight cloudiness. The aroma is definitely Belgian wit - yeasty with sweet citrus notes, but there is a slight stale note in the nose as well. The flavor kicks Blue Moon's ass (go figure), but the staleness from the aroma carries through just enough to make it only a good beer rather than a great one.

All in all, it's not bad. It's the best commercial wit from the US that I've had to date.

I bought myself a 6-pack finally. I don't get that stale smell...I have heard though that the farther you get from CO, the more variability there is in the freshness of the beer. I think that NBB distributes all their beer in CO, so they are guaranteed that it stays cold the whole time, and is taken care of. I get the feeling that once it leaves their hands for other distributors, there are problems.

It does pour very clear for a Wit (compared to Hoegaarden for example) but I get a nice fresh nose from it, definitely taste the coriander and orange peel but they are not overwhelming. I like it a lot, very refreshing and tasty. It is actually very similar to the Wit I brewed a few months ago, which ended up strangely as one of the clearest beers I have ever brewed, although it is much higher ABV than mothership wit.