Fat Tire Amber Ale

I agree. I think the label is neat and the beer is very tasty.

Gary

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Just a tidbit: While traveling in Denver, CO this past week, I had the pleasure of trying Fat Tire
Amber Ale, which is apparently brewed by a cyclist who was inspired by a brewery-to-brewery biking
trip in Belgium. The beer itself was very tasty, but the label is the coolest. It's got a color
drawing of what looks like an old Rollfast balloon tire bike parked under a tree. Neat. I ordered
three of them just to support the guy!

New Belgium Brewing was one of the sponsors of this years Bicycle Tour of Colorado
(bicycletourcolo.combicycletourcolo.comOpen ↗), so I got a chance to sample a lot of their beer. It's all good.

Their website is at newbelgium.comnewbelgium.comOpen ↗, and their current beer labels can be seen at
newbelgium.comn ourbeers.shtmlOpen ↗

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NYRides said:

Just a tidbit: While traveling in Denver, CO this past week, I had the pleasure of trying Fat Tire
Amber Ale, which is apparently brewed by a cyclist who was inspired by a brewery-to-brewery biking
trip in Belgium. The beer itself was very tasty, but the label is the coolest. It's got a color
drawing of what looks like an old Rollfast balloon tire bike parked under a tree. Neat. I ordered
three of them just to support the guy!

No need to worry, he is well beyond needing your three-beer support. New Belgium Beers are well
established - and being one of the better microbrews (he lays off the hops, unlike most µbrews),
it's a big seller. It is sold in almost every state west of, and including, Missouri.

As a bartender, I got used to everyone calling it Flat Tire. It seemed like everyone did it -
without thinking - an easy mental slip. It isn't good for business to laugh at your
customers, so you learn to ignore it. ("Could I have a flat tire, please ... ... ... better
yet, two flat tires." )

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'Didn't expect so many replies to this one. I'll REALLY confess now...My first experience with "Flat
Tire" beer was at 9:15am at the Denver Airport. I was at the end of a one-day business trip that
began in NY and just never seemed to end. With my inner clock and sleep cycle thrown all out of
whack by Wednesday morning (I hadn't had a wink between Sunday night and Tuesday night) I somehow
ended up sitting in a Mexican restaurant at the airport eating nachos and guacamole and sucking down
three of these things before I got on the plane. I'm usually a Guinness drinker and, if I have a
beer at all in an airport, it's usually no more than one. Something about this beer kept saying
"have another...it's for the advancement of cycling!"

Anyway, speaking of Colorado, while on a detour trip to REI Sports, I noticed a bike path that
someone identified as the Cherry Creek Bike Path. He didn't really seem to know, though. It ran
parallel to Cherry Creek and to an old rail line. Can somebody tell me about this?

"Chuck Anderson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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NYRides said:

Just a tidbit: While traveling in Denver, CO this past week, I had the pleasure of trying Fat
Tire Amber Ale, which is apparently brewed by a cyclist who was inspired by a brewery-to-brewery
biking trip in Belgium. The beer itself was very tasty, but the label is the coolest. It's got a
color drawing of what looks like an old Rollfast balloon tire bike parked under a tree. Neat. I
ordered three of them just to support the guy!

No need to worry, he is well beyond needing your three-beer support. New Belgium Beers are well
established - and being one of the better microbrews (he lays off the hops, unlike most µbrews),
it's a big seller. It is sold in almost every state west of, and including, Missouri.

As a bartender, I got used to everyone calling it Flat Tire. It seemed like everyone did it -
without thinking - an easy mental slip. It isn't good for business to laugh at your customers, so
you learn to ignore it. ("Could I have a flat tire, please ... ... ... better yet, two flat
tires." )

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common.
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Chuck Anderson said:

As a bartender, I got used to everyone calling it Flat Tire. It seemed like everyone did it -
without thinking - an easy mental slip. It isn't good for business to laugh at your customers, so
you learn to ignore it.

Many people call it "Flat Tire" intentionally. I do, on those rare occasions when I order one
because the establishment doesn't have any real beer :->

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NYRides said:

Anyway, speaking of Colorado, while on a detour trip to REI Sports, I noticed a bike path that
someone identified as the Cherry Creek Bike Path. He didn't really seem to know, though. It ran
parallel to Cherry Creek and to an old rail line. Can somebody tell me about this?

The REI near downtown Denver lies near two shared-use paths: the Cherry Creek Trail and the Platte
River Greenway.

The Cherry Creek Trail runs from Confluence Park near REI southeast to Cherry Creek Reservoir. It's
a nice trail but can be crowded, especially in good weather and on weekends and on the section that
runs along the creek below street level close to downtown.

The Platte River Greenway runs from Chatfield Reservoir along the South Platte north to 104th
Avenue; REI is at about the midpoint of this trail. In most places it's narrower than the Cherry
Creek Trail but it's not as heavily used, especially the northern part.

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NYRides said:

The beer itself was very tasty, but the label is the coolest. It's got a color drawing of what
looks like an old Rollfast balloon tire bike parked under a tree. Neat. I ordered three of them
just to support the guy!

performance was selling fat tire beer jerseys last year...

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I agree. I think the label is neat and the beer is very tasty.

Gary

Fat Tire is a definite post-ride staple 🙂 Although its still good out of the bottle, to me its one
of those beers thats definitely better in draft if you have the choice.

If you like the label, you can buy all kinds of Fat Tire Paraphanelia (posters, t-shirts, hats, etc)
from New Belgium Brewery (newbelgium.comnewbelgium.comOpen ↗). There other beers are pretty good, too
- Sunshine Wheat makes a tasty summer thirst quencher when its hot outside.

There's also "Singletrack Copper Ale" - brewed by the Rockies Brewing Company (formerly the Boulder
Brewery - boulderbeer.com)-boulderbeer.com)-Open ↗ a bit more of a local microbrew than Fat Tire, which is
really more of a "regional" beer by now. I'm fairly sure singletrack ale was bought out as a
marketing response to the success of Fat Tire. The beer itself is pretty good, though they recently
redid their label and I don't really care for the new one - it's got kind of a dorky looking guy and
girl MTB'er on the front.

- Nick