Kicksled Cream Ale
NWT Brewing Company / The Woodyard Brewhouse & Eatery
- From:
- NWT Brewing Company / The Woodyard Brewhouse & Eatery
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 7.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 29, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 01, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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As our award winning (Canadian Beer Awards 2016, Bronze in Cream Ales) go-to beer, this light bodied, sessionable cream ale takes on a pale straw color with a white creamy head. It's perfectly balanced by a mild hop bitterness and solid Canadian malt backbone. It is hopped with a single variety known for its spicy and herbal characteristics that help to maintain a very classic taste. This light, crisp beer is perfect for those dry winter nights and hot summer days.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by flagmantho:
Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
3.56/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
I had this beer on-tap in an imperial nonic at the Trapline Lounge in Yellowknife.
Appearance: medium golden hue with a mostly clear body and a finger of ivory foam atop.
Smell: malt is a little sweet and quite grainy; it's stylistically okay but not super smooth.
Taste: moderately sweet malt with a pronounced corny character. That's stylistically appropriate but just kinda over the top here. Bitterness relatively high.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a decent carbonation and creaminess.
Overall: it's okay, but definitely not my favorite cream ale. I think this is a hard style to achieve the right balance, and NWT didn't quite get all the way there with this beer.
Jul 29, 2025Appearance: medium golden hue with a mostly clear body and a finger of ivory foam atop.
Smell: malt is a little sweet and quite grainy; it's stylistically okay but not super smooth.
Taste: moderately sweet malt with a pronounced corny character. That's stylistically appropriate but just kinda over the top here. Bitterness relatively high.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a decent carbonation and creaminess.
Overall: it's okay, but definitely not my favorite cream ale. I think this is a hard style to achieve the right balance, and NWT didn't quite get all the way there with this beer.
More User Ratings:
Rated by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.13/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
3.13/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
A quaffable beer, thanks RE for the beer and the warning. This was a certified tick to get an NWT. Not the worst beer I had this year thankfully.
Dec 22, 2024
Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.72/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Clear gold with a tall even head. Grassy, grainy nose. Light malt body, some cereal and grassy notes. Pleasantly effervescent and easy-drinking.
Dec 01, 2023
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