Charles Reibenbach Lager

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Honestly, this could be a lot worse. Very light flavor, mostly sweet malts but not too sweet, with a tiny bit of actual hop flavor.

Judge this beer by what it is. Anexample of a post-prohibition lager. Considering the price, it really a bargain. The aroma is low hop but malty and clean with a distinct corn aromss. Appropriate to its style. The mothfeel is full with residual body from its corn component but without any off flavors. The appearance is deep gold and clear. The best feature is its drinkability. For a corn adjuncted beer its flavor is clean and pleasant. There is no starchy residue on finish but the malt balance is shifted toward sweet rather than hop bitter as I would prefer. For a beer of this price I am higly impressed. Its not great beer, the style its in is not great beer but its very pleasant and a good example of what it is. And...Its cheap. By the way,I joined this site to rate this beer...it seems to be misunderstood by most of the other raters.

Dude, this tastes like assyeast. I can’t call it anything else. It’s just purely offensive to drink.

Okay, I joined RateBeer to give this review - I hate cheap beer usually, but sometimes I gotta go old school for nostalgia’s sake and pick up some Blue Ribbon (etc.) - I’m 2 beers into this Reibenbach 12 and it’s not that bad for cheap beer. - the corn and rice reminds me of High Life, which I can handle once in a while. The can is very well designed and I have to admit, it was 99% of the reason I picked this up.

This might possibly be the most watered down beer ive drank. Ugly piss yellow with a tiny fizz head. Aroma is just like the flavor, corn and rice and really disgusting. It may be dirt cheap but thats how it taste also.

UPDATED: OCT 4, 2006 Sweet and somewhat sour. Very light golden yellow in appearance. Watered down taste. Cheap beer with a cheap taste.

Pale yellow. Fizzy head. Nose of sweet malts and lemony citrus hops. Slight hint of corn. Wow. That isn’t very stimulating at all. Sour grains and slightly bitter citrus flavors. Watery. No discernable palate whatsoever. I concur with Jordo on this one. BOOOO! or something.

Can: Clear watery fizz, very light straw yellow. Nose of corn, fusel alcohols, grainy, floral hops. A metallic sharp watery taste with mild grainyness. Fairly boring and not fun. Booo!

Tastes pretty lousy. It has a weird taste like some malt liquors, but lacks the kick or the strength. Was $3.99 for a twelver, so I don’t feel too bad. The cans do look cool though.

Frankly, I was expecting some real abuse for the price, but in all fairness it wasn’t so bad. In fact it wasn’t particularly anything. No color, body, or taste pretty well sums it up!