Blackhorse Vanilla Cream Ale

Brewed by Blackhorse Pub & Brewery
Style: Cream Ale
Clarksville, Tennessee USA

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

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Fairly decent for what it is. Its Vanilla all right. I am pretty sure they use a fake vanilla flavoring on their basic pale ale with less hops. Its beer blended with the coal miners stout.

A pronounced vanilla aroma. Looks like a pale lager, not a cream ale. The aroma is nice. The beer is not for me. It has plenty of vanilla, but it’s just not a good flavor to me, simple as that.

Served a pale yellow color with a small head that fades slowly and very little lacing. Aroma is all vanilla. Taste is mostly vanilla, muting the other characteristics. Reminds me mostly of a Cream Ale. Fairly light body, smooth. fairly easy drinker,but for me one and done. I know better than to have fruit or flavored beers but every once in a while...I stay from the path.

Appearance: Served up a clear, pale yellow body with a lasting, white head. Smell: Slightly sweetish wafts of buttered vanilla with only the faintest background hints of extra pale malts. Taste: Very light malt profile with only a minute hint of grains. With Blackhorse’s glaring issues with diacetyl coupled with the vanilla flavoring, this beer comes across as, well, not a beer, but rather like a tall glass of AW Cream Ale. No real apparent hop character or bitterness, so, it’s Cream Ale from start to finish. Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium-light carbonation. Drinkability: A smooth, easy-drinking cre--err, beer.

Solid yellow, whitish head. Aroma is sweet vanilla ice cream. Taste is more vanilla, watery, sweet pale malt backbone, One note beer.

Sampler. All vanilla here. Light sweetness, watery. Like a flat vanilla pop.

Name: Vinilla Cream Ale
Date: 07/26/2003
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Nashville

hazy yellow, big white head, sweet vanilla aroma, creamy body,funky flavor, too much vanilla? experiment gone arye

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 3/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Score: 4
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light alone, great when mixed with Coal Miner Stout as a black and tan. also as part of beer sampler

Draft at Pub: Not sure what I was expecting from this one but...... A clear yellow color with a fizzy white head. The looks and smell reminded me of a vanilla cream soda. The flavor tasted artificial, full of vanilla. Very light, dry, and watery. Was like a vanilla flavored carbonated water.

Had this beer when I was stationed @Ft Campbell. Excellent beer and great food at the restaurant.