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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From a bottle poured a dark amber color with a good amount of head. Toasted malty flavor with a almost burnt aftertaste.

12 oz Bottle: Aroma has got a decent malt characteristic, caramel, and a bit of funky hop note as well. Appearance is amber/red with an off white head that lingers. Taste has got some decent hop notes it has some nice caramel malt in there as well. Palate is lightly dry with a lingering malt characteristic. Overall, Not too bad at all. Cheers!

Very middle-of-the road. Had some nice hos notes and spiciness, but nothing special.

Pours a clear ruby amber with minimal head. Aroma is slightly fruity (figs) with some caramel malts. Flavor is somewhat lacking compared to the aroma, high level of carbonation with a bit of malt and some yeast esters but much of the sweetness is lost.

Fort Collins Red Banshee has a thick, creamy, beige head and a hazy, reddish-brown appearance, with some lacing left behind. The aroma is of sweet, caramel, brown bread and a little hop sting. Taste is very similar, and one gets some mild hop bitterness and even, unfortunately, some rotten flavor. Mouthfeel is slick and medium, and Fort Collins Red Banshee finishes semi-dry and relatively easy drinking. Overall, this is a pretty good beer. RJT

This one I’d put exactly average. Not good, not bad. Dark brown clear pour with minimal head. Nice nose on this with some slight caramel hints. Decent drink, but not terribly remarkable.

12oz bottle - pours amber with ample tan head. Nose is molasses. Flavor adds light hops and spiciness. Taste is sweet. Don’t like the type of sweetness.

Aroma is a nutty mild fruit scent...pours dark red...taste is coffe cocoa....finish is soso

Bottle. Light caramel malt aroma. Clear deep red amber with a small beige head. Sweet caramel malt and light grassy bitter flavor. Medium body. Overall there’s something off in the malt/hop balance... conflicting instead of working together.

Bottle. Buttery barley malt and hay aroma. Reddish amber color with small head. Sweet buttery caramel malt and lightly bitter herbal hops. Okay - diacetyls a bit too heavy though.

Pours red brown semi clear color with large tan head disappearing quickly. Nice lacing. Nose seems like a malt bomb, like a loaf of bread, some yeast, almost some fruit. Bread flavor, sweet. Medium to light body. OK.