Harvester
Meadowlark Brewing

16oz can from Brewers Haven. Bright, clear golden pour, fizzy head fades. Bready, grainy aroma. Taste is sweet and biscuity with a nice creamy mouthfeel. Tasty warm weather beer.

 

 

Look: Golden Straw
Smell: Cereal, banana, baby food, grain
Taste: white wine, peanuts, bitterness, sweet corn
Feel: dry, bitter, crisp
Overall; very good

 

 

Poured into a pint glass at 40 degrees. The beer is a pale straw color and super light yellow hues. The clarity of the beer is clear with high carbonation. The head was virtually nonexistent, even after a hard pour half way through.

The beer has a medium high DMS smell, low hop aroma, lightly toasted malts and low fruity esters.

A medium cook corn flavor, medium light hops that is floral, light toasted malt, yeast, and biscuit notes.

The mouthfeel is high carbonation, light bodied, crisp, and a light finish.

The beer has too much DMS in it that I care to drink. The Deschutes Cream Ale on Nitro beats this beer by miles. This is not what I would consider a beer to imbibe on.

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear straw golden color with a one finger head of fizzy white foam. The head fades very fast leaving just a trace of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is heaviest of a cream and vanilla smell mixed with some aromas of grain and a touch of bread. Along with these smells comes a little bit of harvest fruit and a touch of hay.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweeter doughy and bready taste that has a big showing caramel and flavors of a vanilla crème soda. These flavors create a base taste for the brew and as the taste advances are met by some other flavors of light harvest fruits of apple and pear as well as a touch of toasted grain and herb, leaving one with a sweet and creamy taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that was slightly lower. The lower carbonation was great for the creamy taste, although a little thicker of a body may have been slightly better. Overall the feel was decent.
Overall – A decent, slightly sweeter crème ale. Nothing super out of the ordinary, but flavorful none the less.

 

Beautiful clear bright copper colour. Head is substantial and pairs down quickly but there is some durable film Anya whole lotta lacing.

Flavor is, well, creamy sweet and becomes more bitter and unpleasant as it warms. Mouthfeel is smooth and lightly bubbly and kinda harshly too.

Very smooth and great, so long as one as it's treated as a sessionable beer not some sort of barrel aged poo bah.

Very very good.

 

not a bad cream ale here, but a somewhat palid brew, generic and uninspired, especially compared to some of their other beers they do here, which for the most part have been awesome in my experience. nothing wrong with it, just pretty darn plain, even for the style, and lacking some of that cooler fermented crispness i always look for in the style. almost has a sweet corny adjunct malt element to the nose and flavor, or maybe it just isnt fermented down quite clean enough, but there is some residual sugar here that doesnt really fit. a cereal freshness though on the malts is nice, and there is an appreciable yeast flavor here. its not under flavored, it just tastes like a million of its peers, nothing about it at all to make it unique, which for me makes it somewhat forgettable. decent medium body to it, and a decent sparkle of carbonation. its nice with robust food like the creative and awesome pizzas they make at red tractor in bozeman (where i had this on tap), but on its own its pretty unexciting.

edit: this has gotten better, more built up grain flavor and now a snappy lagered type finish, still a little hoppy, and now much more refreshing, interesting and refined. nice to see a brewery able to improve over time. the first review here is far too harsh for the current iteration of this brew, and i am raising up a few scores to reflect the improved product!