Carlyle Vanilla Cream Ale

Brewed by Carlyle Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Rockford, Illinois USA

Definite vanilla taste, with a slightly creamy palate. This beer has the flavors I was looking for, but I think it could be better with a stronger vanilla presence. If you like cream soda and beer, you will like this.

Very nice vanilla cream ale altough it’s not my favorite variety. Mixes very well with the stout

Had this one on draught at the brewpub. Light orange pour with a thin white head, great, sweet nose and vanilla character throughout. I don’t know, I think this is really drinkable...

on tap at brewery pours cloudy gold with off white creamy head,smells of vanilla and liberty hops at least i think they are. sweet like a cream soda with a nice hop arrangement to keep it check the wife hates beer. shes my little whiskey girl, but drank this one maybe an up and coming brewer

Pint glass from a growler. Vanilla beers always end up tasting artificial to me. This one tasted flavorful and natural. Good and very drinkable.

Bright translucent yellow-orange with a thin grey sheet for the head. Wonderful aroma, chock full of creamy vanilla and white chocolate. Vanilla Tootsie Rolls come to mind. Leading into flavor, vanilla plays up its prominence, joined by a crisp hops appeal and signature lemony-lager characteristics. It’s got a lively light body and perhaps a little too much carbonation, but the vanilla finish and aftertaste remind me of why I’m a sucker for vanilla anything.

The beer pours to a bronzed copper body with a thin white head. The aroma is light. Vanilla and light grains. The flavor is nice and creamy and full of vanilla and sweet corn grains. The palate is creamy and medium bodied. Very easy drinking.

On tap at brewpub

After a few lighter beers the mood began to slowly shift. This one was a bit darker but still along the same lines as the previous samples. I would have considered a full pint of it. It’s an interesting change of pace from the norm. It reminds me more of cream soda than beer but perhaps that is why I thought it was fun.

Aroma / Appearance - The hazy body was the color of cream soda and smelled likewise. This one might be alcoholic but it would be hard to tell from the nose. It is straightforward and simple.

Flavor / Palate - Vanilla cream soda is held up by a faint malty taste. It reminds me more of a soft drink than a beer; it was painless to finish and fun to try. I don’t know that I would drink it often but the occasional pint would be nice.