Sparkling Ale
Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.53
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from the lcbo, in a fancy pine box. Pours a clear rusty, brown, with a creamy, dense off white head. Aroma is very malt forward, lots of caramels, and toffee with a soft nuttiness. Reminiscent of a German bock, light grassy notes, minerals, solid cereals and malts.. Low bitterness, easy drinking malty, sweet finish.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Sparkling Ale from Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Light caramel malts and raisin. Clear copper with a rich beige head. Malty with some raisin and yeasty notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Beautiful wooden box with different old-school brown bottle inside. Pours a clean copper colour with amber highlights. The beige frothy head is big, long lasting with thick bubbly-creamy lacing. Cereal grain smell with caramel malt sweetness and some spices. The taste shows some light toasted, roasted malts in the finish, lingering some light burnt wood. The taste is thankfully not as sweet as the nose gives out to be. Caramel again, but with hints of bananas, so wheat in here maybe. Light hops blending things a little. Was expecting like Cooper's Sparkling Ale, but no. Kind of a rich amber-spiced-wheat beer. Not bad, but not one I would have again. Nice to try though, an older recipe like this.