Cremona
Reads Landing Brewing Company
- From:
- Reads Landing Brewing Company
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 10.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 26, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 02, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota
3.52/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.52/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Cremona pours a pale yellow color, with no head. No aroma. Flavor is creamy and buttery, with a nice crisp malty and dry finish. Good body and feel. Overall, a very good tasting cream ale, good flavors, especially near the back end.
Jul 26, 2018
Reviewed by Chaz from Minnesota
3.68/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Pours a golden-straw in color, topped with a uniform white head. Slightly hazy appearance in the glass (chill haze from wheat malt, perhaps?)
Nose is very lightly-hoppy, with a malt character which reminded me of ripe golden pear mixed with apple.
On the palate it's sweat, lightly-tangy, and malty, and with a nice bitterness backing it up, pretty much in-line with an modern imported Pilsner interpretation, or even a commercial American pale lager. In fact, for the sake of stylistic comparison, there's a good bit of favorable drinkability between this rendition (Cremona) and a nice, well-executed Pilsener, in terms of balance, crispness, and dry finish. By contrast, many modern Cream Ales tend to be sweet to the point of being unbalanced, having little hop bitterness. In some case this even affects the mouthfeel, and most of the time it affects drinkability.
Of course, stylistically this one isn't meant to overwhelm with Citrus or Piney hops, and it doesn't, but on the other hand the hops are by no means over-shadowed by the malt complexion. It's pretty close to a traditional American Pale Ale in its hopping rate, but "traditional" APA has become much closer to American-IPA in recent years.
Mouthfeel borders on exceptional: It's malty-grainy, but easy-drinking all at the same time, and this is much more of a mouthfeel than I was expecting (making me pleasantly surprised).
At any rate Cremona is more interesting than several widely-available commercial examples of the style, and is easily above-average for the style, and possibly even better than that!
Oct 02, 2012Nose is very lightly-hoppy, with a malt character which reminded me of ripe golden pear mixed with apple.
On the palate it's sweat, lightly-tangy, and malty, and with a nice bitterness backing it up, pretty much in-line with an modern imported Pilsner interpretation, or even a commercial American pale lager. In fact, for the sake of stylistic comparison, there's a good bit of favorable drinkability between this rendition (Cremona) and a nice, well-executed Pilsener, in terms of balance, crispness, and dry finish. By contrast, many modern Cream Ales tend to be sweet to the point of being unbalanced, having little hop bitterness. In some case this even affects the mouthfeel, and most of the time it affects drinkability.
Of course, stylistically this one isn't meant to overwhelm with Citrus or Piney hops, and it doesn't, but on the other hand the hops are by no means over-shadowed by the malt complexion. It's pretty close to a traditional American Pale Ale in its hopping rate, but "traditional" APA has become much closer to American-IPA in recent years.
Mouthfeel borders on exceptional: It's malty-grainy, but easy-drinking all at the same time, and this is much more of a mouthfeel than I was expecting (making me pleasantly surprised).
At any rate Cremona is more interesting than several widely-available commercial examples of the style, and is easily above-average for the style, and possibly even better than that!
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