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6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is cream, medium body, lower carbonation, and a little lacing. Taste is cream and pale malt.

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Cedar Creek. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with medium creamy white head that lasts. The aroma is wheat, floral, citrus. Medium body, wheat, straw, light dry finish, decent.

5.3

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Milk, vanilla, biscuit malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow with large white head. Moderately sweet creamy corny biscuit malt and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. A decent cream ale - which means a mediocre beer.

4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Pour is a clear golden with a huge white head. Aroma is wet paper bag lager malt with a faint whiff of wheat. Flavor is is a really thin watery mouthfeel with some neutral flavor less lager malt. It’s like Shiner tried to make a macro lager and boy they were successful.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 2/27/2017. Pours fairly crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 2 finger dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, corn, wheat, biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, light pear/apple, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big cracker, corn, wheat, biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, light pear/apple, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of cracker, corn, wheat, biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitterness and grainy malt, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/grainy/bready, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very nice cream ale. All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; Very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful for the low ABV, and a great example of the style. A very enjoyable offering.

7.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

ottle: Clear, honey-gold with a tall, off-white head. Grain, vanilla aroma. Flavour is sweet and light....grain malt, a hint of corn and honey. A touch of raw vanilla bitter. Very solid.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle sent for review, tasted Oct. 31. Its twist-off top pours into a slightly gold beer color under a fizzy head, with the look and smell of your average light lager beer. The first taste has more hops to it than I would have thought. German Noble hops that impart a little pepper perhaps? Then more of a sweet malt taste settles in. I’m usually cautious of cream ales, because they are meant to be the ale "equivalent" of light lagers: low on hops and more malt forward, and sometimes that extra malt makes the beer a little too sweet. The Shiner Homespun flirts with that excess sweetness, but skates away from the edge of being cloyingly sugary. After running some of that light malt across my palate I do get a light finish that leaves little aftertaste. A pretty good beer for first courses, fish, cheeses and lightly spiced pan-seared meats.