Cream Ale
Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Cream Ale Regular|
Score
4.42
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With origins dating back to the 1800s, Sleeman Cream Ale is the brew that helped relaunch a brewery. Found on page 64 of the original Sleeman recipe book, it’s made from a variety of imported hops and combines the easy-drinking nature of a lager with the rich fruit character of an ale. You’ll notice a slight aroma of pear or apple in this medium-bodied, well-balanced ale.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampler at a beer tasting at Binny’s, Orland Park. I found this to be pretty nice "snack" beer. Light in color and body, of course, but crisp, with a bit of lemon amoung its pale malts.
Tried
on 14 May 2006
at 17:22
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Pour is a yellow with a white head. Aroma is the same as a pale lager. Nothing to write home about there. Flavor is not much or even worse. Little bready with some hops showing up is about it. Pretty poor. Cream ale my ass!
Tried
on 25 Feb 2006
at 19:31
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Canned(330ml). -pale yellow coloured, medium fizzy white head, aroma is slightly hoppy with corn notes and slightly soury, thin brew with dry aftertaste
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2005
at 05:50
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
This was the best Air Canada could do on my trip to RBSG in Montreal: A yellow beer with a huge white head. The aroma is slightly hoppy and slightly sour - I wonder if some sort of brewing cereal has been used. The flavor is sour hoppy, with a dry end and a thin body.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2005
at 05:26
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
The word "Sleeman" just sounds dirty for some reason. Pours a clear light gold color with a thin white head that was gone quickly. Very little lacing. The aroma is lightly skunky and sweet at the same time. Light-bodied and kind of fizzy with a nondescript flavor. Bland hops and vague sweetness here and there is about it. The finish is clean, bubbly and faintly sweet. Doesn’t do much for me.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2005
at 12:15
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Bottle: Poured a light yellow ale with a thin white bubbly head that’s disappearing way too fast. I can already smell skunk has a poured the beer. The taste is quite weak with a mix of light malt and a weak creamy feeling. This is truly a bad beer (could be a bad bottle but what do people expect with clear bottle!!!).
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2004
at 11:56
1.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 0.5
Ah, my first opportunity to sample a beer from the aquirerers of the legendary Unibroue. I was presented with 12 oz clear bottle. Hey where is the label? WTF? Distressed I determined never the less to partake of this most inexpensive brew. It pours a clear orange-gold color with a small white head. The odor is skunky and vaguely revolting. The flavor hardly improves upon this impression. It is smooth and creamy in texture but the flavor is a god awful skunky sour tang. I poured this down the drain without a bit of guilt. Disgusting! My heavens this is the destiny of Unibroue???
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2004
at 14:46
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
2004 bottle. Pours a clear pencil-yellow. Small white head and quite bubbly. Aroma of sweet corn syrup. Flavor was surprisingly not disgusting and I was able to finish this one quite easily. It actually does have a soft creamy texture and is not sickeningly sweet. Hops are apparent, another surprise. Light, but apparent. Pretty decent for a cream ale, of course, having only Genny Cream ale to judge by, anything would taste better. 5/2/7/3/13
2005 draught at Mondial, 6/4/05. Golden and clear, white bubbly head recedes to cover. Smells and tastes like metal. Bitter something, light unripened nectarines comes to mind, but that’s an insult to nectarines. No sweetness. Corn in the aroma? No lacing, lots of metal on the end. Very watery, bad. 3/2/3/2/6
2005 draught at Mondial, 6/4/05. Golden and clear, white bubbly head recedes to cover. Smells and tastes like metal. Bitter something, light unripened nectarines comes to mind, but that’s an insult to nectarines. No sweetness. Corn in the aroma? No lacing, lots of metal on the end. Very watery, bad. 3/2/3/2/6
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2004
at 08:34
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
It's been so long since I've poured beer from a clear bottle! In case I forgot to notice the clear bottle, the skunky aroma helped highlight the experience. Has the "fizzy yellow" appearance, although Sleeman is slightly darker than most domestic lagers. The body is actually somewhat flavorful, although there are is a metallic harshness that is competing with the sweet malts and light hops. Not horrendous, but I suspect another bottle or two would really wear on me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2004
at 20:24
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Deep gold with the typical Sleeman skunky nose. Corny grainy flavor with dirty line type cigar butt taste.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2003
at 14:19