Willimantic Carriers Credo Cream Ale

Clear apple juice body with small white head. Aroma is medium sweet, vanilla, bread, light apple, grass. Taste is medium sweet, vanilla, bread, light grass. Medium body, low carbonation.

Growler from tap (2 days). Golden color, average head. Aroma is beery with light notes of citrus. Flavor is good, crisp, clean almost lager like but slight fruitiness; well balanced bitterness. Light to medium bodied.

Pours coppery with a whiet head. Smells fruity with some peppery elements splashed in. Tastes malty and fruity with some nice spicy tinges. One of the better samples I had while here. Full mouthfeel.

Draught pint at the brewpub on 4/29/06
Pale rusty yellow in color, light maize tones, with a small white head that shows moderate retention, little to no lacing. High clarity. Large bubbles rise slowly in the liquid.
Very husky, dry and lightly sourish malts, quite German it seems, with fresh barley and a light corn-like yeast biproduct. Bit of spicy phenols give a punchiness to it, but it’s fairly passing. On th end, a smooth doughiness helps cut some of the dry graininess and spiciness, but it’s rather blanding as well. Aroma strength is medium to medium-weak with no alcohol apparent, and only a touch of lightly spicy hops.
Some fruit sharpness is notable in the flavor initially, along with a sort of very dry biscuit-like note, with phenols and even touches of alcohol. Malt sweetness is faint, some light dough, plenty of lemon sorbet-like notes and a grassy/spicy hop finish. Water to malt ratio is very high, with very large-bubbled carbonation giving it a biting mouthfeel. Light pilsener/pale lager similarities, but too much wateriness, sharpness and bland dough notes.