Gluek Premium Rattlesnake Beer

Formerly brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Cold Spring, Minnesota USA

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

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As much as I hate snakes, I should’ve known to stay away from the bite of this awful mess. Avoid like its namesake.

(Bottle, from a rattlesnake festival in West Texas) Pours a pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma of butter, grain, soap, and skunk. Raunchy flavor...

Crystal clear golden coloured body with a super-thin white head. Aroma of pale malt, stale hops, light alcohol and nothing else. Light-bodied; Pale cardboard & malt taste with some stale hops and light alcohol. Overall, a pretty bad beer, but this was expected. However, I was real happy to be able to sample this beer, brought back six months ago by jon[r888710] from Galveston Island, Texas. Many thanks to him for this beer!

Perfectly clear golden/peach boy with a very thin and shortlivd white head. Aroma is non-descript fruit, soap, musk and an odd plasticy/manufactured smell. Taste is odd malt, some sourness, carbonated dryness. I don’t know, just odd flavors. Pale malt, cardboard and a tad of alcohol. Wack beer. Purchased at the bottle shop on Galveston Island, TX.

I had this beer many years ago at one time when I was only giving ratings to the beers but was too lazy and stupid to write down my thoughts. I will update this as soon as I get my hands on this beer again.

Bottle. Pour is sub-par:no head at all and an oily gold body. Nose is very skunky and sweet and I swear I could smell soap. Taste is like a really bad Budweiser (ya, you heard it right). I can’t really explain the taste. It is really sweet, the strongest adjunct (esp. corn) taste I have ever experienced, overly carbonated and cardboardish. There is a taste that tastes like dishwater mixed with vomit (I am not being dramatic, that taste is there!). The worst part is the finish. After every sip, I would wince. It is slightly dry and sharp and leaves a taste like cardboard and unwashed ass. This is very, very bad and should be avoided at all cost. Trust me.

F'n funny that I see two fellows I know as being the other raters of this swill that sits on sale for under three bucks a sixer. Confession time - I have wanted to have mostly good beers in my ratings. Don't always know what you're getting involved with certain beers, and thus the adventure. This piece of dog disposal my former company once sold. While normally keeping my mouth shut on middle of the road issues I confronted the boss on this putrid effluvia. The packaging just says it all. Being that I am from trailer trash beginnings I can say this is catering to ME. Rattlesnake, clear bottle. Can you say "worse that CORONA" ?? The cardboard holder smells better than the beer and the clear bottle more attractive than its contents. If you can find it at this price buy it. I dare you.

They must think that selling a "rattlesnake beer" in Texas is a sure fire way to shift some cases. Yuck. You have to laugh at the label, however, as it says "handmade". What is handmade beer? It isn't like hand-made chocolates where you actually use your hands (vs. a machine). At what point does a beer become hand-made? If you use your hands to turn the water tap on? If you use your hands to lift the bag of hops? Naturally aged? Is there a fake way of aging? Joe has it right: fizzy, yellow corn beer. That's all that needs to be said. Oh, moderately sweet and plain ugly yellow without much head.

Fizzy, yellow corn beer. Stinks of adjuncts and kettles. Pappy Kershenstein should not be proud of his beer. You know it's bad if they print "smooth" on the front label.