Cold Chillin'
Wild Ride Brewing Co.

Look: Opaque orange with a minimal head that swells to ½ finger and quickly settles, leaving spotty lacing behind
Aroma: Bready malt, vanilla, cream soda-esque notes, and wafts of floral hops
Taste: Straight up vanilla cream soda and though shortly after the initial hit, some light floral notes filter in, this is totally an adult cream soda through and through. Finishes with a sweet vanilla note
Mouthfeel: Full but light feeling, medium carbonation, and soft throughout, including on the finish
Overall: This is tasty and unique. As a former soda-head in my youth plus a sucker for a good cream soda (and now cream ales), I love beers like this so long as they aren’t super sweet, which this isn’t. A refresher for sure and reminds me of the only other beer I’ve had like this, Anderson Valley’s Summer Solstice. Delicious

seems like everyone is following mother earth down the nitro vanilla cream trail, or at least aggressive vanilla beers, which seem more popular than ever right now. my up and down experience with liking or not so much liking beers from wild ride continues with this one, sweeter than i want to drink a whole pint of, the beer elements muted by the nitro pour it seems. particularly in the nose, so its over the top vanilla without much of the cream ale left. this is pale yellow in color, enormously high white headed, and very creamy looking from the nitro tap. smells like pure vanilla, natural enough but seemingly accompanied by a ton of sweetness, not much yeast or hops here, and the crispness i look for in a good cream ale is absent. the flavor is similar, and the vanilla is fine, real and all, but there just isnt enough support structure for this to drink much like beer, its sugary too, which is not the right feel for this sort of thing, at least the creaminess from the nitro is solid, nice job with that part. i wish the pale malt stood out more, or that the yeast had more of an impact, its almost like sweet vanilla water without those things. that said, there is no doubt this will have wide appeal and is still quite robust in flavor overall, with the intensity of the vanilla, which is real on trend this season. i wont be in a hurry to drink another one of these though...

edit: seems a bit different in the can, deeper in color than i remember on tap, not amber but at least bronze and without much head on it, a little foggy looking too, just kind of sloppy in the glass from a cream ale. smells and tastes alright, more malt than i recall in the other format which is welcome, but this needs to be dried out still pretty considerably to have the kind of drinking capacity i want in a cream ale. different in a can no doubt, but im not sure its any better. leaving scores in place from nitro draft experience...