Saturday Night
Stack Brewing

Sunday Evening on Easter weekend

What a fine time for ultimate relaxation. Like looking at the Ocean from the mainland and seeing where your troubles can travel no further. Its time for a cold one!

Stake Brewings Cream Ale with graphics on the tall boy can eerily similar to at least 3 other breweries in Northern Ontario. As a former brewer myself I've always considered the cream ale to be the ultimate test of restraint.

A light brass doorknob colour with some haze and a chunky marshmallow in the microwave bubbling head that subsides to 3-16'. Poured into a litre stein glass mug.
Aroma's of fresh wet bakers dough and Cheerio's sitting in milk for some time. I don't pick up on any hop characters and I couldn't be happier about that for this style. After disturbing the head out comes some aroma of gooey caramel.
Taste is an abundance of malts. Wet crackers, cereal, raw dough bread come toffee sweetness.
Each gulp coats your tongue and even nasal cavities with a sucker punch of straw and malted barely
Overall a failed test of restrain - stay with in your lane Stack brewing; the more you try to be different the more your just like everyone else
A righteous fail at the style. I've taken about 4 good gulps but I won't assault my body anymore with this pompous nonsense. Off to toilet town.

And with that

Happy New Beer Sunday everyone!!!!!

 

Only my 9th cream ale, I find it a boring style. Since this is my first from a brewer bringing craft beer to the north country, I defer on a review.

 

 

 

 

473ml can served cold into a pint glass. Another offering now hitting southern Ontario stores from this brewery in Sudbury. This rendition listed at 5.3% ABV.

Appearance - pours a clear golden ale with minimal carbonation and a nice finger and a half of head that is short lived. Leaves behind no lacing or head after just a couple of minutes.

Smell - clean and grainy with a distinctive lactic acid addition that gives a slightly sour odor. Bigger nose than many in the style.

Taste - thin, grainy, with some sourness. Doughy. Quite a bit of sweetness in here, and caramel sweetness at that. Seems mildly forced, but distinctive.

Mouthfeel - light and easy drinking, carbonation is about right. No complaints here.

Overall - a respectable cream ale, that is worth giving a shot if you're a fan of the style.

 

 

 

Can from the lcbo for $3. Odd sour cooked vegetable type flavour.

 

 

Tallboy can from the LCBO; dated Apr 12 2016 and listed at 5.3%. Served well-chilled.

Pours a hazy golden-yellow colour, with roughly one inch of frothy white head seated atop. It fades off over the next 60 seconds or so, leaving behind a foamy collar and a modest ring of lace. The aroma consists of grainy, bready pale malt sweetness, interspersed with hints of grassy, floral hops and red apple fruitiness. It's coming across as a prototypical cream ale so far.

Straightforward flavour that focuses mostly on pale malts. It has a doughy, bready flavour profile with a restrained cereal grain sweetness; this is accompanied by lightly fruity hints of apple and pear. Finishes with floral, grassy hay hops, and a dirty, weedy hop bitterness that lasts to the finish. Off-dry aftertaste. Crisp mouthfeel, with lively carbonation and relatively light body. Drinking multiples of this would not be a challenge.

Final Grade: 3.66, a B grade. Stack's Saturday Night Cream Ale is a decent quaffer, but will probably seem too bland and forgettable to earn the respect of a plurality of BAs. Truthfully, this is a serviceable beer at best - I realize that this style is not meant to be exciting, but Saturday Night still doesn't do much of anything new or memorable. A decent camping/firepit beer that will likely appeal to the macro masses; discerning and/or picky BAs should probably just skip this one, but if you're a fan of pale lagers or the like, this cream ale is at least worth a try.