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Raccoon River Vanilla Cream Ale


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A Cream Ale brewed by
Raccoon River Brewing

Des Moines, Iowa USA

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82.15/5.02.25/5.0-0Footed Pilsner, Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Our alternative to the common raspberry beers brewed at almost every brewpub in the country. Originally brewed on a whim as a light summer specialty brew, popular demand forced us to include the Vanilla Cream Ale in our house beer rotation.

 acrdz (4386), Boulder, Colorado, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/510/20
Aug 26, 2008  
Draft at the brewery. Very pale yellow colored body with just the slightest haze possible. Flavor is strange vanilla syrup, stenchy and sour bread and cereal grains and some simple, sour and stale saltine crackers. Nose has some notes of burnt pepper and burnt almonds... the cream ale element is fairly easy to see, there’s some light milky notes, even coming off as cream soda, and if I had to say something nice about it, I’d say that vanilla is a good thing to put in a cream ale, since it actually works without being difficult. But overall there’s not much to get excited about.


 CanIHave4Beers (208), Des Moines, Iowa, USA
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/101/53/20
Apr 29, 2008  
Eh.... Tastes and smells like lightly fermented cream soda, almost no beer flavor whatsoever. Certinally not my thing.


 General_Gao (2579), Iowa City, Iowa, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Nov 11, 2006  
Draught at the brewpub. Clear golden color with thin white head that left a bit of lace on the glass. Cloying vanilla aroma and flavor that suppressed any malt or hop flavor that may have been there. Sweet on the tongue. Tasted a bit like cream soda.


 heemer77 (3782), Savannah, Missouri, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/102/510/20
Sep 6, 2006  
On tap at the brew pub. The body was pale yellow with no head. The aroma was vanilla pudding with some light herbal notes. The taste was strong vanilla with some menthol and potatoes. This was a strange combination.


 jhliesen (358), West Melbourne, Florida, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/53/101/54/20
May 30, 2006  
Draft-4 oz. sampler--The color was a thin, light yellow color. The vanilla aroma was all over you and smelled like a cream soda. Too bad I don’t like cream soda. The vanilla taste completely dominated everything with the taste and flavor. The closest way I could describe it is medicine that is flavored to get kids to take it, but only reminds kids that this is a fake taste and you really are drinking medicine. I felt like I should have taken this in a spoon.



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