Selins Grove Captain Selins Cream Ale

Brewed by Selins Grove Brewing Co.
Style: Cream Ale
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania USA

Draught at the brewpub. Pours hazy straw yellow with thin white head. The aroma is lemon and grains and a few peppery spice notes. The flavor is very grainy, with some sweet fruity yeast. It takes on a serious cornmeal taste toward the finish. Pretty well made, but cream ales aren’t my thing.

Sample platter. Very little aroma, with a golden offwhite head. Golden in class with minimal clouding. Red fruit and cream with hints of peach on the tongue. Silky palate, overall enjoyable.

I was pretty impressed with this one. A nice golden color with a good solid head and carbonation, the aroma is fruity and there is a prominent fruitiness to the flavor that is almost raspberry. As the name suggests it is quite creamy, an awesome texture, and very easy to drink. I put down a half growler of this in no time. Slightly high alcohol for a cream ale. Awesome job by the crew at Selin’s Grove.

Tap. Aroma of grains, sweet malt, a certain fruitiness that I couldn’t put my finger on, something in the yellow-orange range. Flavor features the sweet malt, fairly bland, something a little funky, probably I refer to the yogurt yeast quality acrdz mentions. Fairly creamy. Not bad, but nothing I’d return to.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear light orange with a white head. Aroma of grainy malt, peach and apricot. Flavor of sweet malt, light fruits, banana, and light bitter hops. This is very drinkable and tasty. Nice cream ale!

On tap at the Selins Grove Brew Pub. Poured a medium golden color with a small sized white head. Aromas of corn, some breadiness, and lightly floral. Tastes of basically the same.

On tap at Selin’s Grove brewpub. Golden pour with only a hint of hoppiness and a mild yeasty/lager-like aroma. Taste is a melding of ale and lager; slightly corny, but smooth and creamy. Very light and drinkable.

Pint at Selins Grove. Clear honey colored body with a white head. Very smooth and creamy palate - fresh and light without smelling or tasting shallow. A light note of creamed corn (lightly sweet), and smooth throughout the drink, with a wheat/gritty/creamy texture in the finish. Nice, inoffensive flavors of wheat and corn and cracker barley, little to no hop presence, and a medium presence of creamy, yogurt yeast. Easy to drink.