Pelican Kiwanda Cream Ale

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: Cream Ale
Pacific City, Oregon USA

[At Stockholm Beer Festival 2005] A hazy yellow beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet and slightly hoppy as well as slighlty grassy. The flavor is sweet with notes of peach as well as grass as a good deal of lemon, but the body is a little thin.

Bottled. Pale golden, brief head. Sweet and neutral, lightly grainy and nutty. Dryish grassy finish. Refreshing, but near thin.

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, white creamy head. Fruity hoppy aroma with hints of berries. Peaches and some other fruits in flavour. Also some notes of banana. Soft and smooth until a hoppy finish. Peaches and hops in aftertaste.

On tap at Pelican Pub and Brewery, Pacific City, OR. Pale gold, with thin white head. Some citrus aroma, although some cream in mouth. Then great hop finish. Extremely drinkable, like and English golden premium ale. I had it again at Basement Bar in Portland which was slightly blander and less hoppy.

Bottled, alc. 5.3%
Hazy pale yellow, small white head, lace. Pale malty, floral hoppy nose. "Rubbery" yeasty, a bit watery, hints of banana before late hoppyness. Easy to drink session beer. My first Cream Ale and the last needed beer style in Ratebeer.

GABF-on tap-pours a thin white head with gold color. Aroma is cream. Taste is cream, grain. OK carbonation.

Tap@Pelican Brewpub. Unexciting. Tastes like a crappy lager, malty/grainy and thin, crisp-ish finish, nothting else to report.

[rerate needed] Pours medium opaque with a nice tall white head, smells aren"t that strong, and if I were blindfolded I might call it a wheat and not a cream. Palate is very smooth, which is the reason I would buy it again.