(Fort Collins, CO) – For many, this is a dream come true.

The heavily-decorated Le Terroir has received its share of attention in beer circles despite being limited, for the most part, to the status of a festival superstar. That will finally change as this Lips of Faith Series brew appears to be on is on its way to 22 oz. bottles for a Q1 release. New Belgium’s Bryan Simpson says that it will be released “concurrently” with New Belgium Dunkel Weiss, slated for a January-March timeframe.

Le Terroir label description: “Le Terroir is a French term meaning ‘Of the Earth.’ Used to reference the environmental conditional that affect the brew, we like to think about the terroir of our foeders. These wooden barrels age our sour beer in varying temperatures, humidity and vibrations. The terroir of New Belgium, so to speak. Add in another variable by dry-hopping with peachy, mango-like Amarillo hops, and we created a beer that changes every time we brew it.”

Some notes on this one…

It is sometimes described as the pale counterpart or sister beer to La Folie.

It is ranked 4th out of 75 beers in New Belgium’s collection on RateBeer.

It won a bronze medal for American-style Sour at the 2007 GABF.

It took third place in the sour category at FOBAB 2007.

It won a bronze medal for American-style Sour at the 2008 World Beer Cup.

Beer Menus says that this one is aged for two years and also uses Cascade hops (in addition to Amarillo hops mentioned on the label).

Per the late Bill Brand, “The base beer for the Le Terroir was hand selected by Dave Keene at the brewery and kegged for him alone.”