Colonial Pub Pints Brown Ale

Brewed by Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Cold Spring, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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It’s been a while since I’ve been Glueked, and this one surprized me by being fairly drinkable. From thew can it pours a clear orangeish brown with a creamy, tall beige head... which unfortunately reduces to a film within two minutes. It’s got a sweet aroma, worty malt smells with caramel and a bit of chocolate. But it has no balance in the flavor, the sweetness getting to be a bit too much for me by the end of the glass. But for a Gluek, that ain’t bad.

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A big thanks goes out to CanIHave4Beers for the chance to taste this beer. Brownish hazy brownish orange color. Thin alabaster head. Some choco-malt inthe aromatic volatile sweetish lager aroma. Nice label on this 16 oz can. Almost heller or something in the aroma and taste. Quite beery in every aspect. Finsih is a bit sweet and perhaps not cloying nor syrupy. Not bad overall. Good beer in a can.

A little shocked this beer is only ranked in the 10th percentile, I even drank it head to head with Surly Bender and while it pales in comparison to that brew I would not say it is 83 percentage points worse. A little too over carbonated and a strange palate to it, but not a terrible brew all in all.

Carmel, grape and pear nose. Creamy head dissapears in about a minute. Leaves nice natural lacing. Tastes like t smells. For 4.25 for 4 pints. This aint a bad beer. Best I have had out of the brewery. I will buy again. Nice fridge stuffer.

160z can: The whole "Pub Pints" angle seems a bit gimmicky. I cut the can open after pouring to look for some sort of "widget", but the can is empty. The beer does poor with an initially thick and healthy beige head, but it settles rather quickly as you begin to drink. The nose is sharp, almost tart, with alot of CO2 it seems. Eventually it settles and mild hints of caramel and esthery plum come forth. The body has a nice, creamy mouthfeel and is medium bodied. Notes of sweet caramel, honey and nuts are abound. Easy to drink and finishes just sweet enough to leave me wanting more. I kind of like this for a session brew, although the "extreme carbing" ruins the nose. Oh well, still a good drinker.

16oz can. Poured clear reddish-orange with a short cap of off-white/beige head. The aroma picked up sour fruit skins with caramel and nutty notes way in the background.. not good. The flavor was also marred by persistent fruit skin sourness and acidity.. caramel and some dark fruity sweetness come through on the back-end, and is almost decent for a split second.. this finishes very metallic, sour, and tacky. Light-bodied with higher carbonation.. sour, ugly, and lingering feel at the end. The worst part may be that being "light-struck" is ruled out b/c of the can, and I think this is a fresh batch.

Can purchased at the New Pioneer Co-Op in Coralville, IA. Dark orange amber body with a light kahki coloredv head. Smells of caramel and hot cream of wheat cereal. The taste has some light toffee and iced black tea. There is just a little bit of pear core in the finish. This is drinkable but certainly not pleasurable.

Medium head with a huge smell of chocolate and sweet malt. Nice full body and it delivers on the sweet malt and chocolate preview. There is a bit of metallic taste? I could accidently drink too many of these.

Pours amber with lasting tan head, looks good, smells of alumminum, very sweet, malty and slightly hoppy, this is one of the worst beers i have tasted, the only reason i gave it an overall 5 and not a 1 is because it looks pretty. I had to pour it out have way through.

Can poured a clear brown with a small lasting light tan head. Aromas of carmel. chocolate, light fruitiness and a hint of nuts. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of carmel and light fruitiness with a crisp clean finish. A verey disapointing beer!

22-May-07 (16 oz can: Purchased at BevMo in La Jolla, CA) I was prepared to say, "This isn’t THAT bad," but after just one sip, yes, it really is that bad. When first taking each sip, the beer is lightly sweet, fairly sugary, caramely and somewhat toasty, certainly not great quality here, but its drinkable I suppose. But as soon as I swallow, those flavors disappear and the mediocrity take a hard nosedive. The palate-torturing aftertaste is metallic, papery and tart and leaves me with cottonmouth. Light-medium bodied, mostly an impression created by the sugar, finishing thin and watery. Brown sugar, acidic earth and sauerkraut in the nose. Amber-brown in color with only a slight haziness. Small, light-tan head fades to a small ring, leaving no lacing. Pretty awful stuff, especially the atrocious aftertaste which is one of the worst I can remember.