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United States · Flanders Red Ale · 7% ABV
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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
New Belgium La Folie if you want funky, vinous complexity that evolves over sips,
Opperbacco Montepulciano IGA if you want fruit-forward wine-beer fusion that hits immediately.
Both clock in at 7% ABV and 15 IBUs, so they're closer siblings than they appear. La Folie demands patience—it's a slow burn of oak and sour cherry that reveals new angles as it warms. The Montepulciano, by contrast, leads with grape skin tannins and a juicy directness that doesn't require decoding.
At a glance
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Beer DNA
Body
Δ 22
Sweetness
Δ 30
Situations
In words
New Belgium La Folie
La Folie tastes like someone left a glass of Burgundy next to a barrel of sour cherries and called it beer. There's a vinegary snap at first, then this deep woody undertone surfaces—not aggressive, just present, like furniture in a room you're getting used to. The sour builds gradually rather than ambushing you. It's the kind of beer that makes you pause mid-conversation to figure out what you're actually tasting.
Opperbacco Montepulciano IGA
Montepulciano hits you with wine tannins right away—that drying sensation on your gums that wine drinkers recognize instantly. The carbonation carries plum and dark cherry notes forward aggressively, almost jammy. There's no sour here, just wine-grape structure wrapped in a light beer body. It's more straightforward than La Folie, and that's the point—this one doesn't need thinking, just drinking.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 19 vs 19 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 7
Only New Belgium La Folie
Shared character
Only Opperbacco Montepulciano IGA