Catawba Valley Farmer Teds Farmhouse Cream Ale

Brewed by Catawba Valley Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Morganton, North Carolina USA

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

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Can from Bruisin’ Ales (Asheville). Cool Crumb-like art on the can. Pleasant quality pilsner aroma. Pours hazy yellow with thin head. Light refreshing body. Feels like a hybrid of a lager/pilsner and a wit. Floral and dry to the palate. A great lawnmower brew.

on draft at barleys...pale yellow with little white head and not much lacing. tastes quite light and floral with some fruity undertones. just now realizing its a cream ale and just not a fan.

Draft. Lightly hazed straw body, small white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, corn, some bread, light spicy. Taste is moderately sweet, corn, cream, some bread, light lemon. Light-medium body, somewhat creamy. What with the standard association with the word, the beer should lose the "farmhouse." Otherwise, it’s an adequate Cream Ale.

Good. Flavorful, some fruit notes. On tap. Would drank it twiced. Cream colored yellow. Nice beverage with BBQ

Draft at Barley’s.Pours a light yellow with a tiny white head. Scent is light malt and hops. Taste is sweet malt with yeast. Thin

On draught at Barleys, Asheville on 7 July 2006. At first I thought this was called Father Ted’s Farmhouse Ale. Pale gold in colour. Light - in flavour and body - and a bit lager-ish. Clean enough but a bit dull and with too much residual sweetness for my taste. Can’t say I’ve had too many cream ales but, so far, I’ve not really found it a style to my liking.

UPDATED: APR 29, 2012 Draft at Brixx. Clear pale golden with a lasting disc of cream. Faint fruit tinge to the pilsener-like, grass and honey, bouquet. Flavor is light lemon caramel, brassy grain, and a hint of grass. Light-medium bodied, well-balanced, soft and tingly.

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2012 A fantastic example of an oft maligned style. Farmer Ted’s proves that a Cream Ale can be flavorful and quenching all in one without being boring. Excellent golden yellow with fluffy white head. Fruity nose and balanced body. Long grainy finish and extremely creamy body.

It tastes like old Milwaukee’s best left out in the sun that Farmer Ted decide to bathe in. I mistakenly ordered a pitcher of it before I tasted it and ended up giving the whole pitcher away to someone else. It tricks you because when you first have it you think, "yeah this isn’t that great but whatever I will drink it" but then out of nowhere the aftertaste slams you and I legitimately gagged.

The aroma is weak with malt and light hops. The appearance is pale gold with a small head. The taste is like the aroma with nice yeasty finish. The palate is smooth but quite thin. Overall a great example of the style.