Fort Collins The Kidd Lager (Schwarzbier)

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Schwarzbier
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

(12oz bottle) Small beige head atop clear red-black body, nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, roast, caramel/toffee, light earthy. Taste is medium sweet, roast, chocolate, some earthy, caramel. Soft, light body, light acidity.

Black pour wit ha thin beige head. Aroma is lightly smokey roasted malt. Flavor is roasted malt with hints of nut and a crisp bitterness. Dry finish. Nice.

Pours, deep, dark reddish brown with a thin yet chunky tan head that has medium retention and lacing. Aroma is smoke, toast, caramel, wet limestone, dry leaves, and herbal hops. Flavor has strong smoke at first which fades a little as the toast and grain notes ease their way in. A little vanilla pudding, and herbal hops, accompany smoky and toasty bread malts on the finish, with a low but worthy hop bitterness.

Clear dark rubied black body with a thin tan head. Light chocolate aroma. Taste is smoky, roasty, coffee tastes with a light crisp finish.

Pours a dark black that allowed some ruby highlights around the edges. The head is not quite 2 fingers thick, frothy, tan. The nose is lightly roasty, some mild chocolate notes, a little earthy and nutty, very mildly smokey. The flavor is a little roasty, some dark malt character, thins out in the middle, smoky taste on the way down, almost indistinguishable hop character. Not bad.

Pours black with a thin off white head. Smoky, caramel malt aroma. Slightly smoky malty taste with nice roasted grain. Nice easy drinking swarzbier and good use of the smoked malt.

Pretty average schwarzbier. The body is a little watery and at times bland. I like the dark brown color with a bit of an orange hue. The head is decent at first, but then fades to almost nothingness, and leaves very little lacing around the glass. The nose has hints of sweet maltiness and caramel. The flavors make this beer drinkable but not exceptional, with notes of caramel, vanilla, coffee and a slight hint of milk chocolate. The finish is a little light and watery, as mentioned, but features a nice flavor of cream and vanilla. This is a very drinkable and smooth lager, but nothing at all exciting.

Bottle: Dark copper brown pour with a strong chocolate and roaste malt aroma. Very burnt and coffeeee flavor. Smoke was also there but blended pretty well. Good brew.