On tap at Novare Res as 46 Cream Ale. It pours clear clear golden with a small white head. The nose is soft, creamy, cream soda, sherbet and bread. The taste is crisp, sweet, bitter, creamy, toasty, straw, grass, cream soda and lemon peel with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Hides alcohol well. Decent cream ale.

45 Cream Ale
Funny story here, my mom (who is about as far from a beer drinker as you can get) went here for dinner and without looking too closely at the descriptions, I suggested she get the cream ale, expecting it to be a 4-5%, lighter, neutral-tasting beer. Well, it is surprisingly light with very little hop influence (touch of spiciness) and a creamy, soft texture on account of the wonderfully extracted maltiness (yet remains medium-bodied on account of the good attenuation). Anyways, fast forward a half an hour and my mom had to cut the meal short to leave. I hadn’t realized until too late this was 8+% abv! Haha, quite the sneaky beer, but very delicious and drinkable. Light gold body has a touch of chill haze and plentiful white head atop.
Draught at 3 Tides, Summer 2014.

46 Cream Ale, on Nitro 7/17/15, at 3 Tides.
Yikes, well this was an extremely different beast on nitro (as most beers often are). Suffice to say, if you see this on nitro, you should probably pass. All of the crisp, grainy goodness of a lager, replete with a ton of booze, treated to the wet, loose, watery texture of a nitro beer. About as non-synergistic as I could imagine, and extremely, extremely difficult to drink. Perhaps if there was some more hop bitterness? Even then, the grainy malt bill and high alcohol just wash about in the loose bubbled nitrogenation. The creaminess is lost to the high attenuation and it’s much like a mouthfeel of boozy, soaked grains. I’ll keep the rating for the C02 version, as that’s a great beer. The nitro version would be sub 2’s.....