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Ever met a New Belgium Beer Ranger? They are our beloved folks out in the field. Spanning all 29 of our states from the Pacific to the Atlantic, our Beer Rangers do their best to protect, to pour and to partake. And explore many a beer from many a brewery, they do.
Bring out the hops! This clear amber beauty bursts at the starting gate with an abundance of hops: Cascade (citrus), Chinook (floral/citrus), and Simcoe (fruity) lead off the beer, with Cascade added again for an intense dry hop flavor. Brewed with pale and dark caramel malts that harmonize the hop flavor from start to finish, Ranger is a sessionable splendor for all you hopinistas. Thank your Beer Ranger! (Description provided by company)
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ABV:
6.50% ABV
Availability Frequency:
year-round
Containers Available:
bottle
draft
Locations Where Available:
Southeast
Southwest
West Coast
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Great Lakes
Store/Serve Temperature:
close to 55 degrees F
Comments
New Belgium Ranger IPA
New Belgium's Ranger IPA pours yellow-gold, with not much of a head on it. It smells great though. A lot of citrus and a little bit of pine. Not too forest-y, just enough to be enticing.
Ranger has a pretty good bit of carbonation. There's a little burn, but it isn't overly distracting from the flavor of the beer.
Speaking of flavor, it's quite nice actually. Where New Belgium's Rampant Imperial IPA skews more toward the fruit side of things, Ranger has a more floral flavor, and the pine taste adds a nice little bitter finish. Not overwhelmingly bitter, mind you, but certainly a bit more than the Rampant.
Overall this is a solid IPA for the price and convenience of procuring it. You shouldn't have trouble finding it (unless you live in Kentucky), and it won't let you down. Unless you don't like hops. But if you don't like hops, why are you drinking an American IPA?
A Ranger for all environments.
Pours a clear light gold, lots of bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass. Half finger of a white head. Nice head retention. Good looking light colored beer.
Very aromatic hop aromas, lots of floral, citrus and some pine as well. Malt aromas are subtle.
Unsurprisingly, hop flavors are as strong on the tongue as they when on the nose. Very floral and piney hops, with a light and subtle malt, and the bitterness is moderate. A lingering bitterness isn't too distracting or obtrusive. The pine flavors and bitterness become more pronounced as the beer warms up.
A light body and moderately high carbonation.
A very light colored beer, New Belgium's Ranger IPA is full of hop flavors with just enough bitterness to remind you that your drinking an IPA.