Bottle. Copper colored with a small white head. Smells like smoaked ginger. Sweet and bitter tasting. Not my favorite but not horrible.

Copper colored beer with a thin off white head. When I first smelled this my initial reaction was "ginger ale." There is a light, fuzzy sweetness in here that reminds me of ginger ale. That light sweetness carries through in to the taste. Almost like they used Sprite instead of water. Light grains with a little roast to them. Very bubbley on the tongue, which just adds to my soda impression. Easy drinking beer, but not much else to balance the sweet.

12oz bottle-pours a thin bubbly white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel. Taste follows with sugar, toasty, fruity, which over powers the hint of hops-spicy. Syrupy. OK carbonation, 3.0. on a cooler October or November day I’d probably rate higher, therefore 3.3

2006 version in the bottle from Wilbur’s. Pours a deep reddish amber with a large frothy off white head. I must admit, it looks like a marzen. Bread dough aroma is strongest, but a bit of fruitiness and toastedness can also be discerned. Flavor is medium malty with a strong earthiness to the taste. Medium to light carbonation makes this a smooth and easy drinker. At a fest, I figure that I’d get rather smashed on this due to its drinkability. Nice rings of lacing remain in the glass as it goes down. Still, there’s that omnipresent chocolate/roasted aftertaste that I seem to get from just about every Ft. Collins Brewery product.