Taps Red Cream Ale

Brewed by Taps Brewing (Canada)
Style: Cream Ale
Virgil, Canada

Another above average beer from this brewer. Pours coppery red with a good foamy beige head. Bready, caramel, slightly burnt malty and spicy aroma. There’s a sweet burnt malt, treacle type flavour, sugars, and an odd yeasty funk I am not sure is supposed to be here, but here it is. Well made though, and good for a cream ale.

had a bottle of this today, not a fav unfortunatly, very accidic i found in the nose all the way through, there are definatly some malts there but ohh i think the clear bottle has hurt this poor beer.

500 ml can in Toronto. Reddish brown color, low white head. Highly effervescent. Rather weak aroma of caramel malt and hops. A touch of dark fruits. Fruity, malty flavor. Smooth, with dark fruits and some bitterness that is quite earthy. Slightly candy-like as well. Not really special or interesting, but quite drinkable and not really bad.

500ml can. Murky red color. NIce finger of head, good lacing on my glass. Aroma is sweet, kinda like cake icing, but i can detect some hops in there, along with some ripe fruit. Flavour is clean, and slightly malty, with a touch of hops, and the sweetness from the aroma is there in the finish. Mouthfell is slightly thick, i guess you could say creamy. Wow, i must admit i wasn;t expecting much, but this is a very nice offering.

On tap at Taps on Queens in Niagara Falls. Pours a crimson hued light brown with a medium sized white head. Loads of caramel, light malt, and a bit of toast and maple. Medium bodied, creamy, with some cream soda flavors coming through. Finishes up with a light dry bitterness. Best of the first four I’ve had.

Can, 473 ml, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on July 14 2008; eye: caramel, lightly hazy, light effervescence, voluminous beige head that falls rather rapidly, a bit of lacing; nose: nice hops mixed with caramel syrup, lots of grapefruit, lime; mouth: watery, a bit of lime, a bit of caramel syrup, finale in citrus-caramel; overall: once is enough FRANÇAIS Canette, 473 ml, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 14 juillet 2008; œil : caramel, légèrement voilée, légère effervescence, mousse beige abondante qui tombe plutôt rapidement, un peu de dentelle; nez : bon houblon mêlée avec un sirop de caramel, beaucoup de pamplemousse, lime; bouche : aqueux, un peu de lime, un peu de sirop de caramel, finale en citron-caramel; en résumé : une fois c’est suffisant

Amber colour with large head. I noticed a very malty aroma right away. The flavour is malty with light hop background. The body is sticky.

An interesting twist on the cream ale style....red carmel malts add some dimension to the fruity tastes left by the yeast. Pour puts a clouded amber-red ale in the glass with a smallish sticky off white cap that reduced to a surface clinging lace...aromas of caramel, spice, fruits...very subdued. Medium-light bodied with a creamy mouth feel. Sweet up front like toast and toffee but there are enough hops to yeast by products to offer a nice fruity undertone...the finish is the best best part of this ale... the hops and roasted malt "char" gang up to turn the caramel sweetness into a kind of licorice-toffee taste with a light fruity side note.....very different but in a nice way. Some may say this is too sweet for an ale but I think that the sweetness is well enough in check to keep the drink from becoming cloying even though the balance is a bit malt weighted.