New Belgium Brewing Company
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| New Belgium Brewing Company | |
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| Location | Fort Collins, Colorado USA |
| Owner | Employee-owned |
| Year opened | 1991 |
| Annual production | 300,000 US barrels |
| Active Beers | |
| 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale | Dark ale |
| Abbey Belgian Style Ale | Abbey Dubbel |
| Abbey Grand Cru | Abbey Dubbel |
| Biere De Mars Ale | Saison |
| Blue Paddle Pilsner | Pilsener |
| Fat Tire Amber Ale | Amber ale |
| La Folie | Flemish sour ale |
| Sunshine Wheat Beer | Belgian White |
| Trippel Belgian Style Ale | Tripel |
| Seasonal Beers | |
| Frambozen Raspberry Brown Ale | Fruit beer |
| Skinny Dip | Belgian ale |
| Saison | Saison |
| Springboard | Belgian Ale |
| 2° Below Winter Ale | Extra special bitter |
| Discontinued Beers | |
| Devil’s Advocate | American strong ale |
| Loft | Belgian ale |
| Mountain Mantra | IPA |
| New Belgium NBB Love | Flemish sour ale |
| Porch Swing Single Ale | Belgian ale |
| Transatlantique Kriek | Lambic |
| Two Cherry Ale | Fruit beer |
New Belgium Brewing Company is a regional brewery located in Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2004, it produced approximately 300,000 barrels of its various labels.[1]
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[edit] Beers
Fat Tire, an Amber ale, is the company's flagship beer. The recipe originates from a co-founder's bicycle trip through Belgium from brewery to brewery. The company promotes its Fat Tire ale locally by the public placement of colorful vintage bicycles outside its brewery, which is located adjacent to the public bike path along the Cache La Poudre River. A likeness of the bicycle also appears on the label of all Fat Tires.
A very unusual ale is La Folie, broadly in the Flanders red ale style. This beer is fermented in foudres, or large wooden barrels. It is aged in these foudres for one to three years, and blended to achieve the desired flavor. Intensely sour, it is an unusual beer in a style not often brewed in the United States.
[edit] Distribution
Before 2006, New Belgium distributed in only 15 states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Colorado). In Spring 2006, the brewery began to distribute some of their beers in other markets. For example, bottles of Fat Tire distributed in Chicago claim "Chicago Inaugural: The 1st Fat Tire Ale served (legally) in the second city."
[edit] Business and energy practices
The brewery was founded by husband-and-wife team Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan in 1991 and emphasizes eco-friendly practices and employee ownership in its marketing materials. It is located in northeast Fort Collins near the Cache la Poudre River on the grounds of the former Great Western Sugar plant.
New Belgium Brewery has made it a goal to be entirely wind-powered.[2] Rather than directly using wind-generated power, the brewery elects to pay an increased rate for their electrical energy, which is supplied by the City of Fort Collins Utilities in order to ensure it comes from the cleanest source possible.[3][4] About 10% of the brewery's powers comes from methane gas created as a by product of their on-site water treatment plant.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Beer Me! - New Belgium Brewing — Fort Collins, Colorado. Retrieved on April 28, 2006.
- ^ New Belgium, Sustainability. Retrieved on April 28, 2006.
- ^ City of Fort Collins, Wind Power Program. Retrieved on April 28, 2006.
- ^ City of Fort Collins, Commercial Subscribers. Retrieved on April 28, 2006.
- ^ New Belgium, Process Water Treatment Facility. Retrieved on April 28, 2006.
