Lawson Creek Red Ale

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

Bottle. Dark amber color with a moderate rocky white head that diminished slowly and produced fair lacing. Moderate malty aroma. Medium body with a watery texture. Medium malty flavor with a small bitter finish.

I think my bottle was a little old -- I hope so at least. It poured with little head, had a sour and malty aroma (skanky, I called it) and tasted not too great. Unimpressing.

Bottle. Pours clear red gold with white head. There is some maltiness in the nose, but the aroma is very faint. The same goes for the flavor: faintly malty, but not much there. The finish is a little bit chalky. Bah. Nothing special here.

In the bottle from a $4.99 sixer. You get what you pay for. The boys a Gluek are remarkable at putting beer into a great diversity of packages. When I visited the brewery, they took me through the warehouse where the empty pallates of cans were held. I saw names of brands that I never knew existed. Lawson’s is sort of like this. It’s not really red. Sort of a pale amber. It’s not really beer. Sort of like tapwater. Slight caramel aroma, but don’t read too much into that either. The Gluek beers don’t ever get too much better, so this is pretty standard stuff for them.

About damn time that i found myself another fine gluek product. Tasted much like water, it honestly had little else going on. Maybe a bit of spice inside of the red colored water.

A decent amber appearance with a large white head. Its all downhill now. A very flat watery taste with a hint of either malt or some chemical poison. Im not dead yet. This is water with food coloring, what the fuck!

Soapy, off-white head on a beer with a crystal clear amber hue. No character in the color at all. Heavy handed crystal malts, toffee, toasted, sweat socks, and ketchup aroma. The faults aren’t too strong though. Very watery and mild flavor. Lightly sweet, moderately acidic (tart/stinging) flavor. Lightly acidic, lightly bitter finish. Mineral taste. Medium-light body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Tastes like diluted sweet tea.

bottle. Light amber color with rapidly dissipating fizzy head. The hops are detectable in the taste, not much else to say. It’s very carbonated with a fast-fading finish of some additional slight hops. It’s a weak beer without any perks.