Terrapin Golden Ale (Cream Ale)

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

clear golden color with average white head. citrus aroma with a slightly acidic taste. The flavor is short lasting.

Clear, uncloudy. A very light, refreshing beer. Has a bit of a Grolsch-like skunkiness going on. A decent lawn-mower, poolside beer. Nothing more.

Clear, pale golden body with a white head the recedes to a non-uniform film. High carbonation is apparent in the appearance. The aroma is well balanced, but very subdued. I picked up primarily dry grainy smells, with pale malts and very mild hops. Smells a bit like fresh toasted white bread. Similarly, the taste is bready and toasty, with faint caramel malts and mild hop bitterness. Body is light going towards medium. The creaminess shows up at the end for a surprisingly smooth and pleasant finish. The carbonation leaves a slight tickle in the back of the throat. This would make for a decent session beer. Nothing special, but very well done for such a light ale.

Golden pour and no head at all the whole time. Aroma is biscuit malt all the way. Flavor is biscuits all the way through the aftertaste not huge but really this is a bland beer, subtle floral hops as well. Really for a cream ale I guess they did it, very lager like with some actual malt backbone to it. I’m really not dissing this beer by saying it’s a better tasting Miller Lite. I don’t hate it but It just doesn’t have a lot going on.

Very refreshing, but lacking in complexity and overall taste. This tasted like an amber ale. Nothing stands out in the flavor, which is mostly malty with a weak hop flavor.

Not all that complex or anything, but I found this to be a pretty solid session beer. Pours hazy gold with a finger-thick white head. Nose is grassy, malty, some citrus lurking in there somewhere. Tastes a bit fruity, lemongrass, adequate hop backbone. Good brew for the hot Georgia summers.

12oz bottle, extra from TheBeerCellar - thanks! I think this might be a tad underrated, just a tad. I mean yes, it’s a pretty unremarkable golden ale in some ways - it’s got a kind of generic crispness, modest malt profile, and relatively chewy body you can find in a ton of other beers. But it’s lively and refreshing anyways. Solid quaffer.

Bottle.... this is basically a cold, crisp, refreshing beer... not much to it. Good cold and can drink fast.... good session beer for a hot summer day (especially in ATL).