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Sleeman Silver Creek Lager
Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
- From:
- Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
Ranked #311 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 64
Ranked #28,354 - Avg:
- 2.6 | pDev: 20%
- Reviews:
- 39
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 30, 2002
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 17
Sleeman Silver Creek Lager is brewed in our copper kettles for a traditional pilsner style. We gave it extra body to ensure you would enjoy extra smoothness.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.66/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
2.66/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
341ml bottle. Haven't seen this one in a long time around here, now I find a single at a crappy little northern Alberta booze merchant. S'ok, except for this brewery's continuing insistence on using clear bottles.
This beer pours a super-clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of thinly foamy, wan dirty white head, which leaves damned little beyond a few temporary instances of specked lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.
It smells of sour corn and rice mash, a hint of semi-coherent, presentable breadiness, and weak grassy, weedy hop simulacrums. The taste is thin, acrid corn grist, stale green apples, a hint of saltine cracker, and damned-near non-existent earthy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is kind of fizzy and somewhat metallic, the body on the light side, and not really worthy of any smoothness consideration. It finishes barely off-dry, the sour graininess and dead grassy 'hoppiness' making this nothing less than a straight-up gulper, for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know how this got promoted to the APL category - it has adjunct unpleasantness written all over it. Little to recommend it, and not worthy of a repeat.
Jun 04, 2013This beer pours a super-clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of thinly foamy, wan dirty white head, which leaves damned little beyond a few temporary instances of specked lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.
It smells of sour corn and rice mash, a hint of semi-coherent, presentable breadiness, and weak grassy, weedy hop simulacrums. The taste is thin, acrid corn grist, stale green apples, a hint of saltine cracker, and damned-near non-existent earthy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is kind of fizzy and somewhat metallic, the body on the light side, and not really worthy of any smoothness consideration. It finishes barely off-dry, the sour graininess and dead grassy 'hoppiness' making this nothing less than a straight-up gulper, for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know how this got promoted to the APL category - it has adjunct unpleasantness written all over it. Little to recommend it, and not worthy of a repeat.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
2.98/5 rDev +14.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev +14.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
355 ml can. Part of Sleeman's mixed 6. Served cold into a pint glass.
Appearance - Pale golden straw colored beer. Good expressive carbonation and a finger plus of head that has some staying power.
Smell - Quite a bit of grainy notes and some cooked veggies. Not unpleasant and more aromatic than expected but doesn't inspire confidence either.
Taste - Strangely flavored, nothing off, but there's not really any grain. Very watery. Not unpleasant but not great either.
Mouthfeel - Clean and somewhat crisp, carbonation is pretty intense, yet there's a sensation of this going down so so easily.
Overall - Better than I thought it'd be, but not great, Gassy but goes down surprisingly easy.
Dec 01, 2019Appearance - Pale golden straw colored beer. Good expressive carbonation and a finger plus of head that has some staying power.
Smell - Quite a bit of grainy notes and some cooked veggies. Not unpleasant and more aromatic than expected but doesn't inspire confidence either.
Taste - Strangely flavored, nothing off, but there's not really any grain. Very watery. Not unpleasant but not great either.
Mouthfeel - Clean and somewhat crisp, carbonation is pretty intense, yet there's a sensation of this going down so so easily.
Overall - Better than I thought it'd be, but not great, Gassy but goes down surprisingly easy.
Reviewed by TheBierdimpfe from Canada (QC)
3.5/5 rDev +34.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +34.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Medium: Capped, Pils glass.
Opacity: Bright with a faint mist of minerals.
Color: Almost golden with low activity.
Head: Slightly foamy 1-2 finger.
Legs: Decent, okay swirl reaction.
Smell: Cabbage/Minerals.
Taste: Barley/Floral.
Feel: Cereal/Noble hops.
Body: Medium slick.
Carbonation: Prickly.
Overall: Feels like a German Pils, does the job well, not much adjuncts. Pretty good quality, probably the best one they brew.
Visual 6/10 - Flavors 6/10 - Sensations 6/10 - Balance 7/10 -
Freshness 8/10 - Intensity 5/10 - Complexity 6/10 - Appreciation 6.5/10
Apr 17, 2019Opacity: Bright with a faint mist of minerals.
Color: Almost golden with low activity.
Head: Slightly foamy 1-2 finger.
Legs: Decent, okay swirl reaction.
Smell: Cabbage/Minerals.
Taste: Barley/Floral.
Feel: Cereal/Noble hops.
Body: Medium slick.
Carbonation: Prickly.
Overall: Feels like a German Pils, does the job well, not much adjuncts. Pretty good quality, probably the best one they brew.
Visual 6/10 - Flavors 6/10 - Sensations 6/10 - Balance 7/10 -
Freshness 8/10 - Intensity 5/10 - Complexity 6/10 - Appreciation 6.5/10
Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
2.48/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.48/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
Regardless of the name on the label, virtually all of Sleeman's core brands look the same. Silver Creek Lager is no different: light yellow in colour, with an antiseptically clean complexion, and bubbles so plentiful yet entirely ineffective that they must be artificial (they can't sustain a proper head).
There's a certain characteristic that from day one I've noted in all Sleeman products; it's especially prominent in the aroma. It's been many years since I've last had an offering of theirs but I still feel confident I could pick them out in a lineup with other mass-produced domestic brand lagers.
Now I realize it must be the brand of corn syrup they use. This sweet, stenchy, skunky note has an industrial ring to it, a synthetic flavour that is markedly different from the wholesome, toasty graininess of actual malted barley. This taste is more like canned corn kernels and is unpleasant, even off-putting.
The one thing I hear in defense of large commercial breweries is that they're consistent; like McDonalds, their beer taste the same everywhere. You always know what you're getting. To replicate a fermented product like beer to the same standards time and time again on a massive scale isn't easy. This is true.
But who wants to make shitty beer? And who wants to drink shitty beer? I tasted my first Silver Creek Lager over a decade ago and it was just as insipid then as it is now. That's an impressive feat but not one I think worthy of commending. Consistency is a good attribute - quality is a better one.
The folks at Sleeman aren't dummies. They've left this recipe the same for good reason: it sells. This lager may be an injustice to the Czech and German ones that originally inspired it but, sorry to say, its bland, sweet, light-bodied and firmly carbonated qualities are exactly what most consumers look for.
Dec 29, 2015There's a certain characteristic that from day one I've noted in all Sleeman products; it's especially prominent in the aroma. It's been many years since I've last had an offering of theirs but I still feel confident I could pick them out in a lineup with other mass-produced domestic brand lagers.
Now I realize it must be the brand of corn syrup they use. This sweet, stenchy, skunky note has an industrial ring to it, a synthetic flavour that is markedly different from the wholesome, toasty graininess of actual malted barley. This taste is more like canned corn kernels and is unpleasant, even off-putting.
The one thing I hear in defense of large commercial breweries is that they're consistent; like McDonalds, their beer taste the same everywhere. You always know what you're getting. To replicate a fermented product like beer to the same standards time and time again on a massive scale isn't easy. This is true.
But who wants to make shitty beer? And who wants to drink shitty beer? I tasted my first Silver Creek Lager over a decade ago and it was just as insipid then as it is now. That's an impressive feat but not one I think worthy of commending. Consistency is a good attribute - quality is a better one.
The folks at Sleeman aren't dummies. They've left this recipe the same for good reason: it sells. This lager may be an injustice to the Czech and German ones that originally inspired it but, sorry to say, its bland, sweet, light-bodied and firmly carbonated qualities are exactly what most consumers look for.
Reviewed by Eric_Standard from Canada (BC)
2.68/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.68/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
A: Golden, light, active carbonation. White head.
S: Apple, skunk, corn. Mild.
T: Apple, mild bread, corny. Mild sweetness, pleasant bitterness.
F: Crisp and bright, but just slightly over carbonated.
O: Inoffensive but unremarkable. I wouldn't avoid it, but I wouldn't seek it out either.
Nov 30, 2015S: Apple, skunk, corn. Mild.
T: Apple, mild bread, corny. Mild sweetness, pleasant bitterness.
F: Crisp and bright, but just slightly over carbonated.
O: Inoffensive but unremarkable. I wouldn't avoid it, but I wouldn't seek it out either.
Reviewed by fortyfield from Canada (ON)
2.56/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
2.56/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
A - Pale straw colour. Good deal of carbonation. Head fades quickly with no real lacing.
S - A slight skunky smell at the beginning, with an apple scent as well. Almost has a cider-like sweet smell, but not in an appealing sense when I'm about to drink a lager.
T - More of the apple like smell, but the taste is fortunately not as sweet. Slightly bitter aftertaste, though no real hop presence. A bit of a musty taste at the very end as well.
F - Carbonation is appropriate for the style. Fairly crisp and refreshing.
O - Overall slightly unimpressed with this one, not that I had overly high expectations. I think I can say this is my least favourite Sleeman product, and I'm not typically a big fan of the company either. I haven't had the Light or the Original Draught in a while, but from what I remember I enjoyed them both slightly more. However, it is still a serviceable lager that could be consumed in large amounts, and the unappealing factors would likely diminish after the first 2 or 3.
Sep 11, 2015S - A slight skunky smell at the beginning, with an apple scent as well. Almost has a cider-like sweet smell, but not in an appealing sense when I'm about to drink a lager.
T - More of the apple like smell, but the taste is fortunately not as sweet. Slightly bitter aftertaste, though no real hop presence. A bit of a musty taste at the very end as well.
F - Carbonation is appropriate for the style. Fairly crisp and refreshing.
O - Overall slightly unimpressed with this one, not that I had overly high expectations. I think I can say this is my least favourite Sleeman product, and I'm not typically a big fan of the company either. I haven't had the Light or the Original Draught in a while, but from what I remember I enjoyed them both slightly more. However, it is still a serviceable lager that could be consumed in large amounts, and the unappealing factors would likely diminish after the first 2 or 3.
Rated by papat444 from Canada (QC)
2.5/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Flashback #309
Aug 19, 2015
Sleeman Silver Creek Lager from Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
Beer rating:
64 out of
100 with
86 ratings
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