Fort Collins Z Lager

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

12oz bottle picked up at Wilburs
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing. Aroma is mild smokiness and caramel. Flavors of smokey, grains and caramel
Decent, would taste good sitting in front of a campfire.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

OK, so I bought this thinking it was a regular old lager. I should have known it was something more at the first sip. Malt and yeast near carob aroma. Has a taste that somewhat reminds me of many ales. Creamy mild carbonation. Interesting linger with spice and some bitterness. I would have never known this was a smoked if I didn’t see it on this site.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Courtesy of SeaBass. Pours clear copper with micro white head. The aroma has even yet nearly understated smoke to go along with sweet sugar malts, a bit of grain and hints of corn. The taste is very much the same with a very pleasing combination of understated smooth smoke mixing with crystal malts, malt sweetness, a touch or two of grain and a sense of corn kernels. Nice well balanced stuff.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle: Poured a reddish brown with a light beige head. Aroma is light smoke, caramel malts, and hops. Taste is smoky wood, malt, and hops.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

It pours a light and thin copper with a spotty light-tan head and some specks of lacing. The aroma is of caramel malts, light hops, bread and yeast, grassiness, and mild spices. The mouthfeel is smooth and slightly thin. Flavors of caramel malts. hops, bread and yeast, bitterness, and light spices. Good and mild.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

a little lighter on the smoke than i was hoping for. a pleasant enough brew that shows a little fruit and carmel in the nose and flavor. medium bodied. subtle.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Certainly not the best rauchbier I've ever tasted. Pours a clear copper colour with a large white head. Aroma is smoked wood, grainy malt, and gunk. The flavour is a bit on the sweet side for a rauchbier, although the smokiness is there in the flavour and the finish is bitter.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a nice clear coppery amber with a decent, if not persistent, off-white head. Aroma is strong and malty with smoky, fruity and caramel hints. Mouth-filling flavor is malty and slightly fruity with a hint of caramel and a whisper of sweetness. Texture is very smooth and minimally tingly.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

pours a dark copper .. . great looking foam, B+ lacing . . smells almost of honey baked ham . . very fun smoked brew, light yet refined . . way 2 east to drink . . great stuff oh ya! . . another good smoke brew from FC!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

The aroma is of extreme smoked malt, sweetness, and smoked meat and is excellent and very roasty. The appearance is dark black but a very rich and clean burgundy when held to the light with a nice brown head on top that diminished as it sat in my sampler glass. The mouthfeel is medium-bodied, smooth, and complex. The flavor is very smokey and clean as well as smokey malts and beef. Overall, I have wanted this brew for a while and I was very satisfied with the offering; nice smoked porter here for sure, recommended.