Odell Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1989

Contact
800 East Lincoln Ave, Fort Collins, CO, CO 80524, United States
Description
Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing was started by Doug Odell, his wife Wynne, and his sister Corkie. Thirty years later, the culture of family and collaboration still thrives fostering a brewery full of beer-centric people. It is this passion for beer that inspires Odell Brewing to create quality, hand-crafted and innovative brews. Odell Brewing is committed to providing exceptional service to its customers while making positive contributions to their co-workers and community through its outreach and charitable giving programs. Odell Brewing was named the “Best Medium Sized Company to Work For” in Colorado in 2015, is the 34th largest craft brewery in the United States, and recently sold the majority of the company to its co-workers (now co-owners) in a combined management buyout and Employee Stock Ownership Program.

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

750ml bottle pours a clear, burnt orange with some creamy, white head. Nose has apricot, white wine vinegar, lightly vegetal. A little basic. Flavor has a lot more apple, grapefruit, light barrel, light port. More complexity here. Lots of stone fruit. High acid.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2024 at 14:36


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Consumed from the can, at the members party at the climbing gym. Grass clippings, mild resin, lavender, and corn. Sweet and malty, with a fair, sticky bitterness. Light to medium body, hard, and sticky. Pretty clean and solid.

Tried from Can on 11 Dec 2024 at 03:55


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12Fl Oz can, drank at home on Thanks Giving Day 2024 (28th November). Clean golden body, white crown. Hop bitter with a piney leaning, decent malty backbone and slight citrus hints in the finish, happy enough with this!

Tried from Can on 28 Nov 2024 at 22:20


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[12oz can from Low Cost Beer.] A cloudy amber pour with a loose white head; aroma of orange mouth with a and tangerine; piney bitterness in the mouth with a smooth malty body and lots of orange citrus; then a short-lived pithy bitterness to finish.

Tried from Can from Lowcostbeer on 24 Nov 2024 at 18:42


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Notes from April 2009 I've had this before, but never in the capacity to rate it. Thanks to SupeWhite92 for reintroducing us, as well as saying hello to a bunch of beers I have yet to be formally acquainted with. :D A big inch & a half of yellowed off-white froth develops over a clear, wheaty gold body. Lace is akin to a sticky DIPA: a.k.a., ugly & all over the place. Aroma is so damn green with leaves & imaginary chunks of hop pellets grinding in between your fingers. (I actually drank Odell's new red a few days ago, & got the same intense hop aroma. Another bottle is in the queue for a review :o) Nothing else can make it through though. Not absurdly overpowering or sharp, but deep & rich in the perfume of pine & tangerine rind. Malt is apparently nonexistent. Not sure if I like that. Feel is quite under-carbonated; slightly wheaty. Taste is much bitter-sweet tangerine rind, leafy greens, & lemon grass. Minoring slightly in sheet metal, the flavor thankfully has some notion in the back end of grainy malt & earth. It remains relatively juicy & sweet if you ignore everything else. It washes away pretty clean. Too green to my liking, but it's what the people want, right? I remember this being a little more dank the last time I had it(a year+ ago). It's gotten better. Still not a hophead, but I can enjoy this. :)

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2024 at 22:10


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Notes from May 2009 Received a couple months ago from resident red fanatic SuperWhite92. Refrigerated all this time. The newer, sessionable Odell Red he sent was way too intense & raw for me, so let's hope this one does me better. :) Raised dot lettering along the bottom left corner that I can't quite make it out. 2??804 Poured into my DFH tumber, pretty cold. Nice sturdy inch of chewy-looking, lightly tan, creamed head. A slightly murky, reddish brown body. Inactive. Wavelength-like lace. Smell is sugar syrup & plenty of sharply & zesty grapefruit rind, a bit perfumey & floral, & also a touch of something refreshing like cracked celery. Not aggressively raw or fresh, but more solvent-like because of the abv. Taste is first brushed off by it's creamy mouthfeel. Really great initial feel. Malt comes on a little sweet, settling to be doughy instead. Hops are grassy & slightly bittersweet. Nothing too intense, but very sappy & resinous. The bitterness is quite lingering, giving a menthol-like effect. A little clove works it's way in there too which is interesting. The alcohol is in everything, though always mingling with some aspect of the beer. A very tasty beer with a little more demanding heft & aftertaste then expected. Great for a nightcap ...or a lunchtime nap. ;)

Tried from Can on 02 Nov 2024 at 02:14


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Notes from October 2009 Straight flush into an imperial pint glass. Two plus inches of fluffy oatmeal head. Surprisingly sticky, uniform spiderweb lace over a ruby-edged black on brown body. Smell is sharp chocolate coffee roast, straight white sugar, a touch of lactose, & prickly/citric hops. First sip is like watered down, low calorie, 1% chocolate milk. Light-stepping grain. Weak tar fumes maybe? Earthy. Gentle roast, a soy newspaper twang, & a very casual, cherry pit-like twangy bitterness to close it out. Near stoutly roasted, but with some decent body & mouthfeel filled in. Carbonation is right on for me. Milky, but still a bit light for the style. Thanks to russpowell for padding my Odell resume with a good one. :)

Tried on 01 Nov 2024 at 04:32


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at the Thirsty Growler. Clear, orange amber, flimsy head. Mellow herbal hops, caramel nose. Honey nut Cheerios. Semi-sweet leaning off-dry feels with a honey drizzle, slight herbaceous hops, a twinge of unintentional vanilla, nice middling acid, pecan & puff pastry. Caramel full finish. Crispy carb, low abv, just enough body. Drinks easy.

Tried from Draft on 31 Oct 2024 at 19:49


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7.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Aromas are what you'd expect from the label on the can: lambic cherry and raspberry backed up with hints of oak. Flavors are similar to nose, medium tartness and fairly dry. Good body and carbonation. Almost seems like there's some salt in there. Decent for this type of beer which is not really my cup of tea. I prefer more balanced.

Tried from Can at Bodega Brew Pub, Inc. on 14 Oct 2024 at 18:48


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