Lawson Creek Red Ale

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

12 ounce bottle courtesy of maniac. Thanks for the beer and the dire warnings regarding said beer. Pours a slightly hazy reddish copper color with a thin head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma is nutty with big caramel notes. Very malty taste with lots of nutty grainy notes and faint leafy hop and tea like notes. Subtle raisin as well. Medium bodied. Could stand to have a bit more complexity but not all that bad.

12 oz bottle. Pours nice amber color. Head was beige and fizzy. Smell was very malty. Taste was more malt than hops. I like my red ale to be more hoppy, but this isnt the worst.

Date: 11/23/2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Kroger

Clear amber, thin beige head, sweet carmel malt aroma with soft floral hops, touch of tartness in the aroma and flavor, boreing

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.7/5.0
Score: 4
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This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent softly carbonated brown colored body and a fair lacing. The aroma was brown malt and grassy. The crisp and clean mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The mild flavor contained notes of Irish red malt. A decent one, thin but not one that I would consider buying again.

Not a bad beer at all, It has a satifying some-what woody taste, an ok amount of head, not a lot of lacing, Decent price for a good solid "red" ale, not really worth trying at all...

Bottle. Very small ivory head that mostly diminished, poor lacing, visible carbonation, transparent, and an orange-red hue. Nose was malty, toffee and some caramel. Flavor was malty, caramel and a lot of toffee. Tingly mouthfeel and light body. Nothing to write home about with this one. It was drinkable, but nothing really to knock your socks off.

Pours orange-red with a white head. Not much in the way of an aroma. Same goes for flavor -- very thin and one-dimensional, not much going on here. Disappointing.

Sweet aroma, brownish copper color, almost no white head. Sweet flavor, very simple, but nothing noticeable. Slightly astringent after taste. Underwhelming.