Switch Point Honey Cream Ale
Siding 14 Brewing Company
- From:
- Siding 14 Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.45 | pDev: 4.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 23, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 10, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - I guess that this is actually a HONEY cream ale, so I'll get on that soon enough.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and well-bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, floral honey, a subtle pome fruitiness, and very tame earthy, weedy, and musty green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, biscuity crackers, clover honey, apple and pear skin, and some plain leafy, floral, and mildly herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its plebeian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, as there aren't many potential miscreants floating about here in the first place. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the sweet elements kind of trail off like they've got someplace better to be.
Overall, this is an enjoyable brew, nothing complicated, just a straightforward light ale (not in ABV, though, as those 6.5 points are expertly integrated), with a little help from everybody's favourite insect excrement. The brewer's assertation that this could be a 'switch point' for all those mainstream lager drinkers out there to discover craft ale is not too far off base, methinks.
Jul 12, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and well-bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, floral honey, a subtle pome fruitiness, and very tame earthy, weedy, and musty green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, biscuity crackers, clover honey, apple and pear skin, and some plain leafy, floral, and mildly herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its plebeian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, as there aren't many potential miscreants floating about here in the first place. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the sweet elements kind of trail off like they've got someplace better to be.
Overall, this is an enjoyable brew, nothing complicated, just a straightforward light ale (not in ABV, though, as those 6.5 points are expertly integrated), with a little help from everybody's favourite insect excrement. The brewer's assertation that this could be a 'switch point' for all those mainstream lager drinkers out there to discover craft ale is not too far off base, methinks.
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