Sleeman Cream Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Cream Ale
Guelph, Canada

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

Bottle, brought back by vacationing friend. Pours a light gold with a quickly disapating inch thick head. Aroma is a little sour. Very bitter initial sip, but the aftertaste mellows quickly with the malt. Not a bad beer, but nothing that would send me to Canada to get more of.

Are we talking about the same beer here? Mine was draft ... no idea what they actually gave me. Big and dark and almost red ... with a huge creamy mouth feel. Lightly hopped, non-distinct malt. Nothing obnoxious or skunky, nothing distinctive except the great reddish color and the wonderful creamy feel.

Clear gold colour with thin fast fading white head. Sour bread yeast nose. Sour bread yeast taste with smooth malt finish.

UPDATED: AUG 23, 2005 Bottle. A light corn colored ale. Smells of skunks and adjuncts. Taste at first is quit assualting. Big skunky flavor at first subsiding into a rather "smooth" and non threatening aftertaste. Its like this beer decides to kick your taste buds butts and then make up for it on the way down.

pours golde with a medium sized fizzy white head, aromas of corn, hops, a bit sour, the taste is watery, sour, a tad bitter, and corn-like, i wouldn’t drink it again.

Canned(330ml). -pale yellow coloured, medium fizzy white head, aroma is slightly hoppy with corn notes and slightly soury, thin brew with dry aftertaste

Ok because of creamy taste/mouthfeel but nowhere near a Creemore. Dry, crisp. Better than mediocre national brands, of which Sleeman is now #3. Oily taste with cream, like a latte. Ok pour. Dried out my mouth.

12oz bottle - from the sampler -Pours pale golden with a decent sized white fluffy head. Aroma is of corn, grain, a touch of caramel. Flavor is about the same. A slightly sour aftertaste lingers unpleasantly. On the palate this is light and watery. Definitely not their best brew.