Catawba Valley Farmer Teds Cream Ale

Brewed by Catawba Valley Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Glen Alpine, North Carolina USA

Knoxville Brewers’ Jam 2006. Pours cloudy yellow with white head. The aroma is sulfur and grassy hops. The flavor is a ton of wet hay and cardboard with a gross finish. Stay away from this one.

On tap at Barleys in Asheville, NC. Poured a mirky yellow with no real head. Aroma was faintly sweet and tangy. Flavor very watery, lacked any style.

Draught @ Brewer’s Jam. The initial pour is golden yellow and makes a sparse, bubbly white head like relieving myself into a urinal. uh-oh, the smell is very strong of sulfur, with milder hints of damp hay and perfume. Flavor is pretty bad too, very dissappointing perfume-sweetness with a bit of potent raw eggs. I enjoyed this so little that I had to pour out the last third of my 8 oz. glass on the ground. Poor grass.

Pours out a yellow color with a small white head. Aroma was sweet. Flavor was not good and was somewhat sweet. This brew is kinda worthless.

Draft at Charlotte Oktoberfest 2006. Yellow fizzy looking beer with no head. Taste is sweet and not very interesting. Kind of like drinking a pale lager with a bit of sugar in it. Certainly nothing too exciting.

On tap at Barleys. Very flat and unassuming. As light as a pilsner without the citrus flavors. Not exciting or my favorite beer of the night.

Draught at Barley’s in Asheville, NC. Golden color, slightly hazy. Thin white head with a bit of lace. Subdued aromas of bread dough and sweet corn. Flavors are also very subtle with some light sprucy hops dominating. Crisp, clean, and fairly effervescent. Nothing to write home about.

On tap at Barley’s. Nice. Lighter than I like beer most of the time, but it was a good break from the stouts I was drinking. Lots of carbonation, pretty bubbly, not unpleasant. Very mild hops, fairly sweet, vanilla-y. Reminded me of a pilsener for some reason.