Lawson Creek Red Ale

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

I bought the six-pack because I could put in other varieties of the beer and not have the grocery store clerks know (i admit to it), but it was not a smart investment. By far the worst 'red ale' i've ever had, and very close to the worst beer ever....look no further than Lawson Creek for the worst beers you've had!

This stuff tastes like dust and poor beer have been mixed together. Yuck!!

A pretty pedestrian offering dressed up like a microbrew. Available at Kroger at bargain basement prices, my Dad bought all four Lawson Creek varieties to try them out. This wasn"t bad, but it was obvious that the ’flavor’ had been added after brewing by some unnatural process. The thought isn"t a bad one, but the execution seems syrupy sweet and sticky. Better than having to drink a macro, but a poor excuse for an Ale.

The name and price ($4+change for a sixer) caught my eye at the store. Pours a cloudy, orangish-copper with a decent head. The flavor and aroma remind me of warm apple cider. I want to try their other offerings but this was only a so-so beer.

When beers don’t really stick out in my mind it gets hard to rate them. This is one of them. Not bad looking but the taste leaves a whole lot to be desired. Boring.

Once again like their vanilla stout I will raise the question of how can you have aa "cold lagered" red ale? Pours out a weak reddish rusty color with aa bubbly soft drink like head. Taste was boaring but not offensive.

Kroger-brand beer? Yep, this is it. This is one of the most hilarious labels I’ve ever seen: Within an inch of each other, you see the phrases "red ale" and "cold lagered". Yow! Cloudy appearance, strange bubbly head that reminds me more of a soft drink than of beer and fades quickly. Don’t laugh, I seemed to get pencil shavings in the smell. "Annoying" is the best way to describe the flavor, the aftertaste was like a gnat buzzing around in your ear that you want to swat, but it doesn’t kill the gnat and you’re just left with a ringing sound in your ear, and then it comes back in the other ear. It would be very hard to take a big sip of this stuff. This wasn’t one of my more serious ratings.

Weak head. Tobacco and woody nose, smooth, tobacco finish along with bubble gum....just plain annoying without a flavor that makes you want to take another sip.