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Taps Red Cream Ale

Percentile
13
overall
Brewed by Taps Brewing (Canada)
Style: Cream Ale

Virgil, Canada

bottled
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492.43/5.02.47/5.04.9%14.3Footed Pilsner, Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Our newest product, Taps Red Cream Ale is beginning to rival our Premium Lager in popularity with our customers. It is a delicious, full-bodies ale with a clear, beautiful red colour. Cream ale is made by using ale yeast fermented and conditioned at colder temperatures. The colder temperature causes a slower, more gradual fermentation, resulting in a smoother flavour. Our Red Cream Ale has a full-bodies silky texture that is crisp and strong in flavour, with a fresh, clean finish.
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 pintbypint (1008), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Oct 30, 2007  
473ml can from trade with matt7215. Pours hazy orange. Frothy and large off white head, lasts forever. Floral aroma with a bit of mal fruitiness. Lemony hops are up front, tangy, a bit sour, this fades to some toasty malt with a bit of light leafy green hops in the finish. Light body with little carbonation. Was expecting a much sweeter product, the tartness was interestng.


 matt7215 (975), Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/52/102/57/20
Sep 28, 2007  
473 ml can. pours light reddish brown with a small off white head. aromas are sickly sweet, so much so i know this is not goin to be enjoyable just from the aroma. flavours are very sweet fruit, caramel, brown sugar. this is probably as sweet as dragon stout but in cream ale format, which makes it intolerable. i will not buy it again.


 DerWeg (762), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/101/57/20
May 30, 2009  
Starts off kind of a cute cottage beer - cheery orange-red pour, forward flavors and aromas of slighly tangy ale-fruits and fresh yeast. Nods to english style. Caramelly. Turns kind of malt-extract-like later in the glass, with a clingy sweetness that wrecks the finish a little. Feels a bit soapy, the hops don’t express well. Under-attenuated sugars? A little bit Home-kit like. Not a repeat. Is cute to look at though.


 TheJester (714), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/103/510/20
Apr 3, 2007  
473 mL can. Reddish brown. Both cans I opened were gushers - huge beige head that subsided to almost nothing. Smells malty/brown sugar sweet. Taste is quite sweet, a little fruity, and, somehow, a little sour. Very little hops present. Smooth. No need to rush back to this one.


 JesseM (668), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/511/20
Jun 27, 2007    Updated: Dec 3, 2007
Pours with very little head, which I thought was a bit odd, redish brown in colour. Aroma is strongly in favour of malts, a little caramel, but over-all very sweet. The taste upfront is very very malty, and smooth, but there is a hint of bitterness from the hops in the finish, then the after taste goes back to the sweet malts. It is quite smooth, and enjoyable. If you like bitters, or "cream" ales, then this one is definitely one you should try.


 hopson (595), Williamsville, New York, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/511/20
Jul 7, 2008  
draft- not as bad as I thought it would be. Creamyness not there. Nice estery profile, with a robust bitterness. Cream ale- certainly not, but a decent drinker at a place with little options.


 VeloVampire (490), Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/53/102/57/20
Dec 18, 2006    Updated: Dec 28, 2006
473 ml can - pours a deep bronze with a two-finger, fast-diminshing off-white head. Aroma both sweet malts and a strange sourness, almost like sour grapes. Odd. Flavour kind of grape-y as well, with some sweet malts in the background and a quick dry finish. Kind of tastes like drinking a very light red wine that is carbonated and has gone off. I ended up dumping the last third. Not something I would get again. There are far superior Ontario beers for anyone to waste their time on this one.


 PaulHegedus (466), Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/102/56/20
Sep 9, 2008  
Can. Dark amber with a very short lived head: holds aromas of grass and heather, caramel. Tastes unpleasantly sour, herbal, with caramel.



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