Fort Collins Summer Fling

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a copper color with a white head. Aroma is caramel, fruity, and citrus hops. Flavor is caramel, fruity, crystal malts, and juicy citrus hops.

22oz bottle. Orange color. Bready floral aroma. Flavor is a bit soapy. Belgian yeast aromas and flavor notes. . 13 sept 08

Bottle. Pours clear orange with a small, rocky, white head, mostly diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, meal, cereal), light hop (flowers), average yeast (sweat) with notes of alcohol and paper. Medium bodied, sticky-spicy texture, average carbonation, and an astringent finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

Bottle. Pours a light golden body with a white head. Grainy, earthy hop character, some moderate caramel and a light etoh warming. Not so good.

bottle. copper pour with thick frothy head. sour lemon, earthy, cut grass aroma. light grain, dirty, earthy taste. not very enjoyable.

22oz bottle from Evanston, Wyoming. Pours a clear golden color with a large white head. The aroma is sweet honey dipped grains. The flavor is very nice; lots of sweet honey and grains, a light soapy hop in the finish. Very easygoing and not bad at all.

Golden Blonde Ale. Big grainy aroma with tea like hop notes. Hints of some sourness along with caramel and nutty qualities. Very clear golden with small white head. Medium body and mouthfeel. Grainy nutty flavor with hint of sourness and slight alcohol warming. Very nutty flavor. Finish is sweet and nutty with some darker sugar notes.

Bottle on 11/28/2008 in the Great Butters Tasting of 2008. Clear copper amber body with a small frothy off-white head. Bready and toasty, slightly nutty aroma with a caramel background. Bready, slightly grainy flavor, with nutty and caramel notes, some vegetal notes hiding in the background. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.

At Brewery: Poured a yellow with a white head. The aroma was straw, malt, and yeast. The flavor was sweet malts, a touch of yeast, and some fruity spice. Overall, a lot going on in this beer. Refreshing during the the summer.

Bomber poured a clear amber with a small disapating ivory head. Aromas of carmel, biscuit, light earthiness, light citrus and aq hint of spice. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of carmel, light citrus and a hint of spice with a crisp lightly bitter finish.