Fort Collins Red Banshee (Retro Red)

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Good looking beer, a deep red with a tint of orange and a tall, creamy beige head. The aroma is sweet and malty, has a touch of toast, apples, and berries. The flavor is toasty and sweet, fruity with a light earthy bitterness to balance it out. Good session stuff.

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Nice dark red color but has a very thin, filmy head. Aroma is of wine/grape and some woodsey malts. Sugary taste, red-wine towards the finish. Finish is bitter but not harsh and has a bit of piney hop resinous. Pretty good.

Bottle. Pours a bronzen ruby with thin beige head. The aroma is light toast, a dark sweet note, berries, and a faint note of fudge. The taste is much more like fudge, some nutty notes, toast in the finish. Quite interesting.

Deep copper color with a medium head. Head dissipates quickly, leaving spare lacing. Aroma of caramel and brown sugar and earth. Mostly sweet. Medium-light body. Fairly dry finish.

Bottle from Capone’s. Deep ruby color with aroma of caramel malt, cabernet, hops, brown sugar, some berries. Tastes caramelly, with hops, earthy malt, berries, and cabernet notes.

A very dark amber to brown color. It has a nutmeg and caramel aroma to it. The flavor reminds me more of a brown ale than an amber. Somewhat sour with nutmeg and grapes present. This is a pretty good session beer.

A bit of a brown pour with an aroma of brown sugar and if bitter is a smell it is in this beer. A pleasant sweet beginning that changes to a bit of an odd bitter. Not a bad beer for the style but not one of my favorites. The aroma and flavor are off just a little.

Bottle from Frugal McDugal in Nashville, TN. Pours a clear deep mahogany red with an off white head. Malty aroma with berry like fruitiness. Initial flavor of caramel, brown sugar, and molassess cookie. Mid palate has some nuttiness and hints of purple grapes. Bitter finish is very acidic with notes of hairspray, which loses some major points with me. Starts off well and has a train wreck in the end.

Red Amber Coloring with No Head. Toasted Caramel Malt Aroma. Dark to Grain Bread, Toasted Malt, Little Sweet...Light Dry Breaded Aftertaste...Heavy Enough Amber Where I Can’t Say I Would Drink it Session Style...But a Nice Lighter Alc Drinking Alternative.

Sample size: Brown red tone pour. Flavor is mildly sweet, caramel like. No complexity; a simple red ale that is neither offensive nor impressive.