County Cream Ale
MacLean's Beer
- From:
- MacLean's Beer
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 3.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 23, 2024
- Added:
- Sep 09, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.38/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Jun 23 2023 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a brilliantly clear pale golden hue, with two inches of fluffy, soapy white head erupting from the surface; it recedes steadily, falling off to a patchy, sudsy cap and frothy collar over the next five-plus minutes. A respectable amount of lacing is also produced - looks fine to me. The aroma is decidedly plain - grainy pale malts, wheaty cereal sweetness, maybe a whiff of corn and grassiness. Boring, but that suits the style.
The flavour profile is similar: put a blindfold over my face and I'd guess that this was an adjunct lager. It tastes of grains, wheat husk and sweet cereals, with hints of corn and wet cardboard close behind. The hop presence is minimal - just a whimper of grassy hay, concluding with cereal grain sweetness that fades quickly into a watery aftertaste of grain husk. Light-medium in body, with aggressive carbonation that feels frothy in the mouth; it's crisp and refreshing, but otherwise quite forgettable.
Final Grade: 3.38, a B-. County Cream Ale is about as plain jane as this style gets. It's passable for what it is, i.e. there's nothing overtly wrong with it - my only real complaint is that it's kind of overcarbonated, but that's self-correcting over the course of the session. I've heard that MacLean's has closed up their Hanover location and is now brewing in Collingwood... hopefully we aren't about to witness yet another old school Ontario brewer bite the dust, but hope tends to be powerless against the writing on the wall. Support MacLean's while you still can and hopefully some of these brands will manage to live on in one form or another. Maybe not this one, though.
Jan 23, 2024Pours a brilliantly clear pale golden hue, with two inches of fluffy, soapy white head erupting from the surface; it recedes steadily, falling off to a patchy, sudsy cap and frothy collar over the next five-plus minutes. A respectable amount of lacing is also produced - looks fine to me. The aroma is decidedly plain - grainy pale malts, wheaty cereal sweetness, maybe a whiff of corn and grassiness. Boring, but that suits the style.
The flavour profile is similar: put a blindfold over my face and I'd guess that this was an adjunct lager. It tastes of grains, wheat husk and sweet cereals, with hints of corn and wet cardboard close behind. The hop presence is minimal - just a whimper of grassy hay, concluding with cereal grain sweetness that fades quickly into a watery aftertaste of grain husk. Light-medium in body, with aggressive carbonation that feels frothy in the mouth; it's crisp and refreshing, but otherwise quite forgettable.
Final Grade: 3.38, a B-. County Cream Ale is about as plain jane as this style gets. It's passable for what it is, i.e. there's nothing overtly wrong with it - my only real complaint is that it's kind of overcarbonated, but that's self-correcting over the course of the session. I've heard that MacLean's has closed up their Hanover location and is now brewing in Collingwood... hopefully we aren't about to witness yet another old school Ontario brewer bite the dust, but hope tends to be powerless against the writing on the wall. Support MacLean's while you still can and hopefully some of these brands will manage to live on in one form or another. Maybe not this one, though.
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.62/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
June 5 2023
Sep 09, 2022
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