Fort Collins Z Lager

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

Looks like this beer has a new label. Fairly clear medium amber, perhaps a bit of chill haze. The aroma is smoke, light toasty malt, and partially boiled peanuts. This isn’t the best rauchbier around. It could probably use a slightly richer malt backbone to balance everything out, but it’s not bad either.

(br-btl bk-lbl fire barrel Z, Fort Collins Brewery in CO, 4.5%)

golden-malt §hops §smoke, overall simple and balanced, easy drinking but nothing special.

Not bad! Nutty smoked burnt flavor going on here. Bit thin but very consumable.

12 oz bottle from Spirits Red Bank. Poured suprisingly lighter in color then expected with a slightly hazed orange/amber body sitting underneath an average sized foamy off white head. Aroma had suprisingly more smoke then I was anticipating. The smoke has a mostly wood background but there are hints of meat as well with some fruit in the background. Medium bodied with average to lighter carbonation and a soft finish for the smokiness. Flavor is very similar to the aroma with mostly a smoke and citrus hop flavor prevailing. Nice stuff and rather unexpected.

Bottled. Poured clear medium garnet with a dense cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up sweeter caramel and fruity notes paired with charred hickory smoke.. soft, nearly too sweet on the malt front, but very well balanced. The flavor found the same sweetness along with a pinch of honey at the core.. smoke was light, but ever-present across the palate.. finished tart with some earthy character joining the sweetness and smoke. Light-medium bodied with moderate-plus carbonation.. tart where it needed to be with a great flow.. I really dug this.

Nice, pronounced smoke aroma. Smoke is present, but not at all dominant in the flavor. Quite harmoniously integrated in with the light caramel malt sweetness. Nice.

12oz bottle from total wine and more in atlanta. dark copper pour with a thin off-white head. smoke aroma. some caramel in there somewhere, but mainly smoke. flavors of caramel and roasted malts and then the smoke - actually a little less than I would’ve expected given the smell - but it’s the main attraction. caught the caramel again and slight citrus hops. I am not generally a smoke brew fan (even the ones that are highly thought of) -- those was ok though.

dark amber, quickly vanishing head. aroma is char and smoke, spice, bacon. Taste is salty smoke, hammy. malt. Medium body but a little flat. very drinkable considering its smoked. would pair well with meats.