New Glarus Spotted Cow

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

On tap at the Hotel Trempleau. Pale gold with a HUGE white head. Creamy and sweet. This is now my all time favorite cream ale. Archetype of the style. A delicious beer.

bottle, smells malty and lightly, hinding in the background is a little hops. pours a hazy yellow, not golden but yellow. tastes smooth and easy to drink. malt corn citrus a little dry and bitter in the end not bad. dood beer for a hot day like today.

This is a decent enough drink, good for a hot Summer day, but nothing spectacular. It’s a cloudy, straw-colored drink with a very short-lived head. The aroma is malt with tart oranges. Medium bodied and carbonationally challenged, it has a light malt flavor with a bit of citric tartness. Oddly, I don’t really detect their admitted addition of corn. I’d drink it again, but not if there were other choices.

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Bottle: Cloudy pale yellow gold with a small white head that faded quickly. Aroma is bready malt, yeast and grain with a tiny hint of floral hops. Flavor is malt, corn, yeast and a little bit of citrus hops. Smooth and medium bodied with little carbonation, this one goes down very easy. Nothing spectacular but still very good.

Very pale cloudy straw color, with a small layer of coarse white head that fades quickly. Very lot threshold of aroma. What is there is soured corn and vaguely grassy hops. Some mild dill hop flavor, strange sour malt, abrupt dry finish. Medium body. Kind of lifelless on the palate. I have to wonder if the bottle I am tasttng is a bit past it’s prime. This is not bad, but certainly a confusing tasting. The sourness is actually kind of refreshing and interesting, but also a bit off, and I just can’t believe it is intentional in a cream ale.

I honestly did not understand this beer. Almost no hops flavor, compounded by an overly aggressive corn taste (I always thought that was a bad thing?). It had almost no taste, and a rather bad aftertaste. Just not my style of beer.

Light to medium yellow pour with a decent amount of carbonation. Smells a bit of funky hops. Some yeast, corn and fruitty flavors in the taste. Fairly unique flavor profile. Slighty sour taste as expected in a farmhouse ale.

Straw gold. Nose bready, honey, some fruitiness. Unimpressive more or less, some toastiness, bit of lemon, fruit, a bit of corn. Not bad, just far from remarkable.