Cumberland Cream Ale

Brewed by Cumberland Brews
Style: Cream Ale
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

Clear light yellow with a fizzy white head. Light grain aroma and taste with a slightly thin palate.

Yellow pour with creamy white head and lace. Corn light sweet malt and earthiness. Sweet corn, light paper, light earthy bitter. Medium bodied but fizzy. Decent cream ale just lacking something.

Weak appearance segues into a weak offering. Very little taste, followed by an odd sour finish. A disappointment, particularly since the other offerings are overly hopped.

On tap at the 2010 Microfest in St. Louis. Pours a pale golden with an average white head that diminishes. Smooth sweet pale malt taste with very little hoppiness.

Draft at Cumberland. This was actually the best of the beers I had this trip from Cumberland. Pours clear yellow. Nose is corny and grainy. Taste is much the same with some distant hoppy notes. This would be tasty on a hot summer day, too bad it was about 20 degrees outside. Overall, though, pretty nice cream ale.

Why the fuck is Cumberland literally INCAPABLE of making c clear beer? Get a damn Bright Tank for god’s sake. This beer’s character is primarily corny (taste and aroma of corn) and creamy. Hard to describe. A bit strange with the corn upfront but pretty smooth and mellow finish. Not as bad as I remembered, but still not my thing really.

On tap at Cumberland brew pub. Pale yellow with a medium white head. Aroma of mild perfumed malts backed up with a little honey. Taste is of sweet malts with some lemon, honey and some mild roasted malt character to it. Tilted to the malty side and not as creamy as other cream ales, but probably better.

clear pale yellow with a small disappearing white head. aroma pale malt and corn. flavor sweet pale malt and corn. light body moderate carbonation. finish slightly bitter. medium dry. light drinkable beer. nowhere near as good as the rest of cumberlands beers.