New Belgium Dark Kriek

Let's take a moment to examine these photos:

• This is the new "Lips of Faith" brew from New Belgium called Dark Kriek. I don't know if they've ever bottled any of their Lips of Faith brews before.


• Check out the screen printed bomber bottle. This is the first time that I know of that New Belgium screen printed a bottle (besides the growlers).


• They used the old school design on the caps. I don't know if they made new ones or if they found a bunch of old ones.

I haven't tried it yet, but I have a couple waiting in the fridge.

Frambozen!

It's about the time of year for New Belgium's raspberry brown ale, Frambozen. When we didn't see it at the liquor store I got a little impatient and I called the brewery this afternoon. It turns out they just tapped it today. I just couldn't wait for the bottles to show up in the stores, so Christine and I took our growler over to the brewery after work and filled it up with some super fresh Frambozen. Man that stuff is good.

It's great to live near that brewery. In addition to the regular beers, they also have experimental brews that you can only get in the tasting room. Today we had a new Belgian trippel and a pale ale. Both very good. And we also learned that mixing 1554 with Frambozen is a good thing.