Terrapin Golden Ale (Cream Ale)

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Cream Ale
Athens, Georgia USA

Bottle. Nose is yeasty with some biscuit malt undertones. Clear pale yellow, big frothy head with active, quick-moving bubbles. Sour grain flavor, very flat on the palate, but smooth.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Degarth. Clear, golden with a creamy, white head. Slighly floral hop aroma. Medium body with lightly sweetish malt and a dry finish. Unspectacular but quite drinkable. 171107

Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet combined with a slight acidity, and light notes of lactic acid, fruit, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of milk, malt, and fruit, as well as a light note of spices, leading to a dry spicy finish. Boring.

Nice orange color with small white head. Flavor of corn and a light malt. Some hops noted.

The golden color is nice. Smells of ay and honey. A little light caramel and malt and just enough hops to balance. A tad on the watery side. Not my favorite from Terrapin.

12 oz bottle from liquorloft tallahassee. watery texture. mild aroma of sweet light malt, sweet corn. flavor is enjoyable but simple sweet and clean like honey and corn. light hop profile. much how a cream ale should be i suppose.

12 oz, bb 10/23/07. Clear, pale gold (looks nothing like what’s in the glass pictured!) with a huge, sticky head that leaves cobwebs all over the place. Aroma is slight rubber skunk, sourish corn, grass, and honey. Flavor is initially honey turning to slightly sour grain, then to some gentle herb grass bittering at the end. Body is smooth and close to medium-bodied, with a nice dry finish. Nice example of a cream ale. Not my favorite style, and I was pleasantly surprised. I drink almost all my beers at near room temperature, and I think this one would probably rate higher if sampled that way.

Weak. For a session beer or not. Take it over a bud light, yes. But it was boring, bland, plain. Pour was light gold, not so much like the picture with a small white head. Aroma was of corn, light hop, even lighter malt. Flavor was just light in general. A hint of hop a mite of malt.