 Murphy (1759), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Jul 17, 2004 Aw yea, another great smokey beer from FCB. This time the smokiness is much more evident in the aroma. Still huge smoke in the taste, backed up by a solid body. Looks like a regular copper colored lager, but this is way better.
Beaver (460), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Jul 11, 2004 The Smokin’ Lager poured a cloudy copper-red with a lot of tiny floating particulates. It had a huge light tan head the had great retention.
It’s aroma was caramel malt and smokiness.
It had a big sweet, caramel malt backbone with some smokiness on top and a smoky aftertaste. There was not as much smokiness as I was expecting, I think the Double Z was more pronounced from what I remember. It did have a nice balance between the sweet and smoke. It was a little on the thin side.
Overall, this was similar to a lot of FCB’s offerings (sweet and smoky and a little thin).
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