Barkley Sound Honey Almond Light

Brewed by Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Cold Spring, Minnesota USA

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a clear amber with the tiniest, off-white head. Artificial aroma of caramel and almonds. Light and watery body with an extremely artificial almond aroma. Absolutely no bitterness. Gets more and more horrible the more you drink. Avoid. 020406

Clear bottle. Clear medium gold color. Smells like vanilla extract, some light honey and some corn and grain. Tastes like cream soda, but the finish is terrible... skunky ashtray with no body whatsoever. Not disgusting to drink, but really a poor effort.

I was warned by Michelle (co-owner of the brewpub) that, being a craft beer drinker, I wouldn’t like this. Then I saw it was a Gluek, and I began to wonder why I was paying for it. (It was dirt cheap, the pub wanting to move it out.) After drinking this golden, near headless lager, watery and thankfully near tasteless (bits of sweet malt with an artificial sweetener add-in), I quickly moved on to a Moondance IPA.

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Bottle. Poured amber color with an average frothy white head that diminished quickly with fair lacing. Light sweet aroma. Light body with a sticky texture. Medium sweet flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration.

Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is clear light dirty yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (caramel), with a note of vanillin, hint of cola. Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Light body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Nearly flavorless, very thin and watery and fizzy, with an artificial creme soda kind of aroma. Not truly repulsive, but still distasteful and nothing resembling beer. Very disturbing color...light yellow hue, but with a faint stained brown tinge, extremely unpleasant looking.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent golden brown colored body and a fair lacing. . The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish. The weird malty flavor contained notes of honey almond and candy. A horrible one that I would not buy again.

Autumn Brew Review 2004. Very light yellow color with no head. A little honey in the aroma. Decent enough nut taste with a bit of sweetness. Not great, but not nearly as bad as what I was expecting.

Bottle. Very small white head that mostly diminished, with no lacing, transparent, visible carbonation, and a golden hue. Nose was honey, sweet, dry and some almond notes. Ditto for the flavor. Dry mouthfeel. Light body. Definitely not one to seek out again. Save yourself time and money.