Raven Cream Ale
R & B Brewing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
5.91
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This ale is a dark, yet surprisingly light-bodied cream ale. Crystal, Whitbread Goldings, and Cascade hops are added to a carefully crafted blend of 2-Row, C-120, Roasted and Chocolate barley malts creating a truly drinkable beer with subtle nutty flavours and hints of chocolate. Raven Cream Ale is a two-time World Beer Cup medalist (silver and bronze), mellow enough for the casual beer drinker yet complex enough for the most discerning foodie.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at R & B. Pours hazy brown with a beige head. Bready malts on the nose. Flavour has a surprisingly dry malt character, though lacking depth. Marketed at the brewery as a brown ale, which doesn't seem entirely unfair. It's okay, fairly uninteresting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Dark brown pour, with a big sticky off white head. Very sweet malty aroma. Some cereals are present, some nuts, and minimal hops. Velvet mouth feel, soft carb. Sour finish, low bitterness, lots of metal. I guess this bottle of infected, cause the finish like i said is solidly sour.
pictoman (9602) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Poured from the tap (ABV listed as 4.8%). Dark mahogany with small off white head. Mild toasted nuts. Fine, but boring.
solidfunk (21802) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Easy to drink but not a lot to this. Don't get the dark cream ale vibe as well - I guess that's why it's listed as a mild? Pours dark brown with ok head and lacing. Fairly clean finish like like you prerinsed the plates in your dishwasher. Tap at brewery.
Ferris (26037) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft - Dark malts and a touch of toast. Deep mahogany with a decent white head. Dark residing and some toast with a light bitter finish. If the ABV were lower this would be better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Part of the BC Craft Brewers Guild Natural Selections 6 pack (2014). Pours a hazy copper colour with red highlights. The head is creamy, beige, lasts long and lacing is creamy, thick as well. Aromas of nutty malts, raisins, caramel, dates, spicy yeast and sugars. The taste is much milder, watered-down. Very light roasted malts with some sourness in the middle (light infection ?). Not sure about hitting the style. Seems more like a fruity rousse.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from a mix-BC 6 pack. This beer pours a much darker mahoganey brown with a very slight head that vanished fast. Served in a flared pilsner glass. The aroma is syrupy caramel, butterscotch & fudge. This cream ale has the zesty active carbonation I associate with Vancouver beers, thankfully it is pretty smooth and not so rough. The taste is tangy butterscotch and caramel. I think it may have been heat damaged and I am getting diacetyl. It is OK but that sweetness is somewhat cloying. Once it warmed up you did get some cream flavor as well.
Gerbeer (8166) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap. Pours a hazy brown with moderate head. Aromas of nuts and dusty malts. Flavors are similar but with distinct cardboard notes.
yngwie (24083) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, 341ml. A brown one, topped by a dense, off-white to beige head of moderate size. Caramel, tending towards toffee in the aroma. Not butterscotch, but borderline. The same goes for the flavor, it’s also equally boring and uninteresting. Super smooth on the palate, although a bit thin. I hope for a real cream ale when ordering this one, just for the tick, so I got sort of disappointed in that way, but even though it’s very boring and one tracked, it’s sure a drinkable beer. Can’t imagine I’ll have another one though. 130703
Deanf (9789) reviewed Raven Cream Ale from R & B Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Nice amber body, okay bright beige head on top. Aroma is cream and malt. Flavour is a very soft maltiness with a dry bready finish. Mild indeed, but highly drinkable.