Cream
Martin House Brewing Company

 

Pours a chill-hazed amber with a pinky of beige head. Average-ish head retention & lacing

S: Vanilla, doughy sweetness

T: Vanilla cream soda with grassy notes, a touch of graininess & a little dryness up front, just a little cornyness on the edges. Dryness, vanilla, cornyness as this beer warms up. Finishes a little dry with vanilla & corny/cereal notes

MF: Light/medium body, restrained carbonation

They sell this as a combo 4 pack to mix with their cookie dough stout, this is the weak Brother, certainly wouldn't ever buy this a 4 pack or greater purchase. Doesn't stand alone well to be sure

 

Antique brass color with a finger and a half of soft white head that lingers.

Smells like cream soda, old cream soda from a soda pull. Sweet, creamy, a bit of caramel and sarsparilla.

Taste is also very like cream soda, though a bit less sweet (not much though, this is a very sweet beer). A lot of malt and just a hint of bitterness, more of an herbiness, like rye bread.

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a very lightly hazed deep golden color with a head of puffy white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, with it fading and leaving a touch of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a sweet vanilla crème smell mixed with a touch of graininess and some hay. Along with these smells comes notes of marshmallow and powdered sugar. In may ways it smells like a sweet crème soda.
Taste – The taste starts out with drier than I was anticipating from the nose. IT begins with a grainy and bready malt taste that has a slightly more moderate vanilla crème, caramel, and powdered sugar like sweetness. The sweetness does grow slightly more intense as the flavors moves forward, but it is always in check by the malt. A little bit of hay also develops and with a slight lessening of the grain, on is left with a semi-sweet and quite smooth crème ale taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is thick for beer of only 6 % abv with a carbonation level that is rather low. For the crème ale flavors and the maltiness the feel is quite well done, making it a very approachable low abv sipper style brew that matched the slightly dessert like qualities of the brew.
Overall – I was rather impressed by this beer. I was expecting something that was going to be very sweet and cloying, but instead, it was well crafted and more balanced in nature. Quite pleasant.

 

 

 

 

 

This quickly became a favorite, and now we can't find it anywhere! It's a light and refreshing beer with a hint of sweetness. Best cream ale yet!