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Hop Cream
Capital Brewery
- From:
- Capital Brewery
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 18.02%
- Reviews:
- 35
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 06, 2019
- Added:
- May 19, 2012
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.23/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
I miss those old Capital labels from around 2001-04. Anyways, I guess in 2014 I was on a nostalgia trip and decided to pick one of these up again. Wasn't a fan 10 years earlier, but who knows, absence makes the heart grow fonder they say.
Pours a light orange color. 1/3" white head with great retention. Aroma was almost nothing. Some feint grain notes.
Taste is similarly without much behind it. More grains. A little bit of citrus bitterness that almost seems misplaced were it not so mild. Seems heavier than the lively effervescent cream ales I've come across in the past. I think they gotta figure whether they are trying to make an under hopped pale ale or a slightly hoppier than average cream ale. Has some aspects of each.
Might not be a bad gateway/dateway kind of beer, but it has a premium price, so maybe a White Claw or something else does the same trick in your guest bag of tricks.
Aug 06, 2019Pours a light orange color. 1/3" white head with great retention. Aroma was almost nothing. Some feint grain notes.
Taste is similarly without much behind it. More grains. A little bit of citrus bitterness that almost seems misplaced were it not so mild. Seems heavier than the lively effervescent cream ales I've come across in the past. I think they gotta figure whether they are trying to make an under hopped pale ale or a slightly hoppier than average cream ale. Has some aspects of each.
Might not be a bad gateway/dateway kind of beer, but it has a premium price, so maybe a White Claw or something else does the same trick in your guest bag of tricks.
Reviewed by PorterLambic from Florida
3.26/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.26/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a rich honey color with an small, off-white, head, really more of a film. Retention is phenomenal. Great sheets of lacing.
Smell is herbal hops up front followed by some hay, floral and faint malt.
Taste is hops, floral and herbaceous, hay, malt (light), and some lipstick (ooh, no) in the background.
Medium bodied, light carbonation. Warming after the swallow. Except for the lipstick note lingering on, this is really quite good.
Oct 06, 2014Smell is herbal hops up front followed by some hay, floral and faint malt.
Taste is hops, floral and herbaceous, hay, malt (light), and some lipstick (ooh, no) in the background.
Medium bodied, light carbonation. Warming after the swallow. Except for the lipstick note lingering on, this is really quite good.
Reviewed by rlee1390 from Indiana
3.63/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A-Cloudy almost bright orange. One finger head that doesn't last long.
S-Bread. Malt. A little bit of citrus and orange flavors.
T- Sorta sweet, as the style would suggest. Sweetness is mainly in the form of malt and bread with a tad bit of citrus thrown in as well.
M-Lighter, not much carbonation, tad watery.
O-A good cream ale. The style is normally an avoidable one to me but this one was enjoyable but not great.
Jan 21, 2014S-Bread. Malt. A little bit of citrus and orange flavors.
T- Sorta sweet, as the style would suggest. Sweetness is mainly in the form of malt and bread with a tad bit of citrus thrown in as well.
M-Lighter, not much carbonation, tad watery.
O-A good cream ale. The style is normally an avoidable one to me but this one was enjoyable but not great.
Hop Cream from Capital Brewery
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
137 ratings
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