Honey Amber
Cold Spring Brewing Co.

From a 12 oz can with no freshness date; no telling how old this one might have been. Pours into my Sam Adams glass (thanks, guys!) a brownish color very much like tea. Thick fluffy white head fades very quickly down to a thin layer of "spit." Little precipating carbonation. Nose of very sweet malt with hints of caramel and perfumy-sweet honey. Taste of honey malt with hints of ginger. Thin taste. Mouth is thin, flat, and wet. Drinkability is low: this is beer flavored water; or perhaps beer flavored tea.

Overall: It's a NA. It has a bit of a different, very sweet honey flavor, but overall still a typical rather tasteless NA.

Pours a clear amber colored brew with a coke a cola type carbonation.

Smell is sweet unfermented malt and a bit of hay. This smells exactly like an unfermented beer wort.

Taste is sweet malt syrup and faint hop bitterness. This tastes EXACTLY like unfermented wort diluted then carbonated.

Mouthfeel is seltzer water.

Drinkability depends on if you want to drink a glass of unfermented beer wort watered down with seltzer water, I don't.

I almost feel sorry for this. I want put it in fermenter and add some yeast to see what it could be!

I HEAVILY think that this is in fact a brown ale wort watered down pasteurized and carbonated.

Another 99Cent store score, again 2/99.

When held up to the light, this beer looks exactly like a tall glass of iced tea with a slight, slight head on it. The head quickly escapes.

The smell of this beer is a lot like the smell of other infamous Cold Spring MN offerings. Adjuncts with a wierd sweetness that is unpleasent.

The taste of this beer is crazy. It taste's like it looks, like Iced Tea. Very very strange.

THis would be a great Lawnmower beer if you like Iced tea, but why take in the calories? (60) I would take a tall glass or real iced tea before one of these anyday.

On a beer tour of the world i dont know if i would steer clear of Cold Springs, MN. or go and visit it like a side show of freakdom. Are there really any cold springs there or did they change the name of the town to sell more beers? Either way, i hope this beer is not this towns staple income because every beer i have tasted out of this humble little town has been down right nasty.