Sleeman Cream Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Cream Ale
Guelph, Canada

This was the best Air Canada could do on my trip to RBSG in Montreal: A yellow beer with a huge white head. The aroma is slightly hoppy and slightly sour - I wonder if some sort of brewing cereal has been used. The flavor is sour hoppy, with a dry end and a thin body.

Bottle, 5%. Clear pale yellow colour. Mild flavour, slightly sweet. Low bitterness. OK rounded.

Bottled. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is mild fruits, maize, malts and some slight notes of caramel. Flavour is the same along with paper and some mild notes of rubber.

Date: 04/01/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Classic City

clear yellow, frothy off white head, strong vegitable aroma, sweet malt flavor, touch of acceptble corn character, light balancing bitterness, flavor exceeds the aroma

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: *+/4

All I can taste in this is corn. Corn grits, corn syrup, corn bread...mmmmmmmm corn bread

Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet fruity aroma with mild caramel notes. Sweet flavor with fruity and mild cardboard notes. Ends mild bitter.

Very pale ale which proposes a light corn aroma. Tiny bitterness, tiny notes of hops among other cereals, but far from complex. It lacks of substance, not Sleeman's best.

Got this 12oz bottle as a gift: Pours a transparent dull golden with a thin ring of fizzy white head that leaves a thin wisp of lace as I tilt the glass. Aroma of semi-sweet, toasty grainy malts and some noble hops. Actually kinda smells like a good pilsner. Body on the other hand is very thin, fizzy, and almost devoid of flavor. Just a touch of sweetness and more of a drier bittering hop finish, but the lively carbonation makes detecting subtle flavors difficult. This wouldn’t be so bad if it were concentrated a little more and had less carbonation.