Sleeman Cream Ale

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.

Bottled. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is mild fruits, maize, malts and some slight notes of caramel. Flavour is the same along with paper and some mild notes of rubber.

Bottle, 5%. Clear pale yellow colour. Mild flavour, slightly sweet. Low bitterness. OK rounded.

Date: 04/01/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Classic City

clear yellow, frothy off white head, strong vegitable aroma, sweet malt flavor, touch of acceptble corn character, light balancing bitterness, flavor exceeds the aroma

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: *+/4

All I can taste in this is corn. Corn grits, corn syrup, corn bread...mmmmmmmm corn bread

Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet fruity aroma with mild caramel notes. Sweet flavor with fruity and mild cardboard notes. Ends mild bitter.

Very pale ale which proposes a light corn aroma. Tiny bitterness, tiny notes of hops among other cereals, but far from complex. It lacks of substance, not Sleeman's best.

Clear, deep golden ale with a small, fizzy, white head. The nose is of citrus fruit, corn and a touch skunky. The flavor is well-balanced, but fairly thin and nondescript. Not offensive. Light-bodied with a fizzy mouthfeel. Short, crisp, clean finish. Thanks to my father-in-law, Max, for the bottle from the great white North.