Orange CreamsicAle
Railway City Brewing Company

At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From my favourite LCBO at Tecumseh Mall in nearby Windsor. My fifth beer from the St. Thomas, Ontario brewery, and second for 2025...

i bought a can today at the icbo in Ontario 473ml
poured into glass head quickly went away
color was very hazy not much carbonation
not crazy about the look of this beer hazy and not much of
a lace kinda looked flat half way
at 4.8%.Orange Creamsic Ale reminds me of a orange
Creamsicle pop lots of orange and cream
enjoyable not that sweet .
its very refreshing and light .an ok beer
cheers

 

Look: Bright orange/yellow, with a finger and a half of white head. The head has backed off to a slight ring at 5 minutes.

Smell: An artificial orange aid smell, with general grains.

Taste: Grainy at the front end, with plenty of the orange side of a cremesickle, but not so much the creamy vanilla ice cream centre. Definately sweet, but that is to be expected.

Feel: I found it lacking in body and creaminess. It had a seltzer like overly carbonated feel.

I'd give this a B to B-. It definately lacks the creamy vanilla centre that makes a creamsicle so good. You can taste the vanilla but it is slight and the beer definately lacks the body to be considered creamy in anyway.

Well this is far from traditional, it was an absolute delightful surprise. It's a dessert ale.

Creamsicle! Wow! A childhood treat. This beer, not so much. Grain and pithy orange be through and through. Crude finish. Drinkable, but a little disappointing. Too many rough edges.

 

 

 

473 ml can served cold into a pint glass. Review from notes. An LCBo purchase for somewhere around $3.15 CDN.

Appearance - Hazy, bright golden color, two plus fingers of fluffy white head with good staying power.

Smell - Clean and grainy mostly with hints of orange and a general sweetness about it.

Taste - Not quite orange creamsicle, but quite grainy, clean with a fair amount of oramge mixed in. A little more bitter than I though it would be which is a good thing in keeping balance and drinkability.

Mouthfeel -Very smooth, medium bodied with a fullness and a creaminess expected from a cream ale. Add some orange flavoring in and while it's not a milkshake type beer there is an element of the classic orange creamiscle in the feel.

Overall - Better than I expected and worth another sample or two. Easy to drink and enough orange and bitterness, so it remains balanced and yet meets the illusory imagery of an orange creamsicle in some manner.

 

Yellow with lots of fine bubbled carbonation, slightly hazy and 3 fingers of off white head.

Smells of orange juice, and a bit of vanilla, like a cream sicle.

Tastes of orange juice, orange oil, and hints of vanilla and candy qualities.

Light body, and lots of carbonation.

Got this at LCBO in Barrie, drinking on Lake Rousseau, May 29th, 2018. Very interesting brew, just a little watery in my opinion.

Apr 6 2025

a shortcut to lactose and orange. lacy. first sips ok. not objectionable but not so drinkable. harsh finish and aftertaste. On tap at Craft Brasserie.

473 mL can purchased at the brewery; dated Aug 12 2017. Or at least, I think that's what was printed - the month digit is distorted so I can't be totally sure if it's an 08 or an 09 (not that it matters much, as either one would make it a fairly fresh sample). Served barely chilled.

Pours a cloudy medium golden colour, initially supporting one finger of loose, soapy white head that fizzles off over the next several minutes. A respectable-looking collar of bubbly foam holds fast, though little in the way of lacing has been generated. Looks fine. On the nose, I am getting some gritty grain husk and oat cereal sweetness, backed up by rather subdued notes of orange zest and vanilla. There's also a touch of grassy hay/straw and bready wheat in the background... not bad, but frankly it's not as aromatic as I would've hoped for something brewed with oranges and vanilla beans.

A decent flavoured cream ale that keeps things simple, more-or-less approximating the taste of a Creamsicle. Grainy barley malt and bready wheat sweetness serve as the backdrop, with orange zest flavours peaking near mid-sip, followed up with a distinct note of vanilla ice cream which rounds out the back end. A little sweet, but not overbearingly so. Medium in body, with relatively low carbonation levels that combine for a smooth, soft, creamy texture.

Final Grade: 3.94, a worthy B+. Railway City's Orange CreamsicAle turned out almost as well as I could've hoped for. I still find the aroma to be a bit lacking - but other than that, it's a solid brew that tastes pretty much exactly like you'd expect a 'creamsicale' to. I suppose it's fair to mention that throughout my childhood, the orange Creamsicles were always the last ones left in the box, as neither me nor my siblings preferred them over the pink and blue ones - so perhaps a raspberry or blueberry creamsicale would be more relevant to my interests? Kidding aside, I hope they've been trying to get this one into the LCBO, because I bet it would fly off the shelves next summer. An interesting diversion, even if it's a tad one-dimensional - don't hesitate to give it a go if it sounds appealing.