Lake Louie Coon Rock Cream Ale

Brewed by Lake Louie Brewing
Style: Cream Ale
Arena, Wisconsin USA

Bottle thanks to Brigadier sampled on 2/13/07: Pours a clear pale champagne golden with a thin ring of white head. Aroma of sweet slightly creamy pale malt with a touch of mild fruity notes. Body starts mildly sweet and smooth with a slightly earthy noble hop balance. True to style and very drinkable, but otherwise bland.

12 oz bottle from Firm Worm in Arena. Pours a light honey, pale golden ale. Nose is minimal of pears and corn. Flavor is clean and crisp. Though my first impressions is that of a light beer, I would have recommended this as a regular college light beer. A very good light ale.

12 oz bottle. Poured a clear, very light golden color. Head was thick and bubbly with good retention and lacing. Aroma was of light cereal grain and some grassy hops. Pleasant grainy aftertaste. Pretty standard cream ale.

Poured a clear very pale yellow color. The aroma was doughy with just light amounts of malt. The flavor was very light with a short finish. Light on the hops. Light body. Seems like this isright on for the style but not my cup of tea. The overall gets some boost for being to style.

12oz, no date. Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a beer pour this color--slightly hazy dirty dishwater yellow with a fading one finger white head. Aroma of corn/grain, grass, a bit of earthy hops. Flavor is the same grain and corn thing with minimal bitterness noted. A bit thin in body, though still somewhat creamy and having light-moderate carbonation. This is pretty tasty for a boring and for the most part boring style--this would be a good one to go camping in the summer with.

Pours a diluted lemonade yellow with an enormously thick head of white. A deepsea tubeworm rising out of its hole; a tower of foam rise proudly to the ceiling. Insane. Busy carbonation. Thick chunky lace. Mild bread dough aromas with some lemon cookie. A smidge of tartness in the air. Subtle grain flavors, a bit of lemon zest. Mild corn as it warms. The Wisconsin crop shines more and more as the temp rises. Cream ale character? Check. But there’s no obnoxious corniness nor alcohol involved. Would be a good drinker in the summer’s heat. In January? Eh.

12 oz bottle (Riley’s Wines of the World, Madison WI October 2006) consumed a bit above fridge temperature from a Coors Banquet pils glass. Giant snow-white foamy-thick head subsides quickly to a moderate creamy wisp atop the clear light-honey body....fresh grainy nose, hints of honey, creamy malts dominating, bready and just right....body is soft and smooth, faint hints of sourness underlying the predominantly sweet malts, with light, pleasant woody bitterness to finish....low to moderate carbonation, touch of stickiness in the mouthfeel, this seems to represent much of what’s good and what’s boring in the style all at once. On the whole it’s successful but also a reminder of how difficult (impossible?) it is to make "great" cream ale.

From a 12 oz. long neck bottle with the distinctive Lake Louie catfish logo, no freshness date. Poured a lightly hazy golden orange with a small foamy white head. Aromas of honey and lemons with soft bready malts. Good medium carbonation and a softly crisp, velvety, creamy smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Delicious tasting, a sweetness from the white corn that goes along with a pilsener-like honey maltiness, its easy to tell that fuggles hops were used from the cutting sour lemon flavor, the proper soft bitterness for a cream ale and a nice sweet and sour finish. I’m not a big fan of cream ales, but this year I’ve had two excellent Wisconsin cream ales, first the Mallards Ale from the Great Dane, and now, Coon Rock from Lake Louie, a cream ale with an easy, highly quaffable drinkability, something I would recommend trying.