New Belgium Adding Fruit Series Tartastic Raspberry Lime Ale Bottles

This morning we get our very first look at a new bottles coming from New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, CO and Asheville, NC.  This is Tartastic and is is a raspberry lime ale that will be part of the new Fruit Series.  The beer will hit a sessionable 4.2%-AbV and this is the new 12oz embossed bottle label.  This beer will also be packaged in kegs (below), so stay tuned here for release details.  This beer will be released in early Feb 2018.

UPDATE 1 FEB 2018 from New Belgium:

Rotating beers offer slightly tart, fruit-forward flavors in sessionable format

Fort Collins, CO New Belgium is launching a new kettle-soured series of fruit-forward beers in 2018, riffing on the Belgian tradition of adding fruit to create crisp, slightly tart and refreshing flavor profiles. Tartastic Raspberry Lime Ale is New Belgium’s first release of the series, marking the transition of Tartastic from one year-round offering, Lemon Ginger Sour, to a rotating stable of sessionable fruit beers.

Tartastic Raspberry Lime Ale pours a light raspberry hue with welcoming aromas of raspberry, strawberry and cherry, followed by lemon and lime. Beers in the Tartastic Fruit Series are New Belgium’s take on shandies and radlers, according to Ross Koenigs, Brewer at New Belgium.

“We found most of the current competitive offerings to be overly sweet, almost artificial in flavor,” Ross said. “Our goal here is to let the fruits’ natural sweetness shine through while being complimented and enhanced by blending with a kettle sour. The crew in the brewhouse is pumped to have a new platform to explore all that fruit can bring to the beer table.”

The new Tartastic Fruit Series taps into New Belgium’s decades of brewing knowledge from working with fruit, a tradition true to the brewery’s Belgian roots. Each beer in the Tartastic series is a blend of two beers – one that is traditionally fermented and one that undergoes a lactobacillus fermentation that creates a subtle tartness. By blending the two brews, the tartness is deemphasized and the result is a very refreshing and sessionable beer packed with fruit flavors and aromas.

The Tartastic fruit series will feature other new flavors rotating throughout the year, including the return of fan-favorite Lemon Ginger Sour. Tartastic Raspberry Lime Ale is available now in 12 oz. bottles as well as draft.

Tartastic Raspberry Lime Ale

Malts: Pale and White Wheat
Hops: Nugget
Yeast: Ale

ABV: 4.2%
IBU: 8

For more information about New Belgium or any of its beers, visit www.newbelgium.com.

About New Belgium Brewing

New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Belgian Style Ale and a host of Belgian-inspired beers, is recognized as one of Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work, one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Small Businesses and tops Bicycling Magazine’s Best Companies for Cyclists. The 100% employee-owned brewery is a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Business as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, one of World Blu’s most democratic U.S. businesses, and a Certified B Corp. In addition to Fat Tire Belgian Style Ale, New Belgium brews fifteen year-round beers: Citradelic Tangerine IPA, Fat Tire Belgian White, Voodoo Ranger IPA, Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA, Voodoo Ranger 8 Hop Pale Ale, Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze IPA, Sour Saison, Honey Orange Tripel, Dayblazer Easygoing Ale, Tartastic Fruit Beer Series, 1554 Black Lager, Bohemian Pilsner, Abbey Belgian Style Ale, Trippel and a gluten-reduced beer, Glutiny Pale Ale. To learn more, visit NewBelgium.com and follow the brewery on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.