Spotted Cow | New Glarus Brewing Company
Brewed by:
New Glarus Brewing Company
Wisconsin, United States
newglarusbrewing.com
Style: Cream Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.80%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
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Added by BeerAdvocate on 02-02-2002
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Ratings: 3,582 | Reviews: 818
3.56/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
4.38/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
3.67/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.62/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.94/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.52/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
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3.74/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
4.08/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.12/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Described on the website as a "Naturally Cloudy Farmhouse Ale", on the bottle as a cask conditioned ale, brewed with flaked barley and "the finest wisconsin malts". No ingredients or specs otherwise per the bottle or website.
Pours out to a hazy pale golden, forming a tall mousse like bone white head with beautiful retention ahndf solid lacing. Carbonation is ~2.75-3.0 or so. The nose is rather non descript, vague, simple and beer like with a touch of DMS and some corn character. No hop character in the nose. Mouthfeel is lightly sparkling, crisp, light bodied. Taste is very pedestrian, but well brewed. Very mild malt character, a little DMS, minimal hop flavor or bitterness, ending crisp and clean. A little seltzer-like. No off flavors or aromas for the style of cream ale. Don't think this is a saison when you read farmhouse.
A very pedestrian but well brewed cream ale, meant for the enjoyment of the masses with minimal hop, malt or yeast character. Worth a try as part of their line up but I would never choose to buy it considering their other amazing sours.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Described on the website as a "Naturally Cloudy Farmhouse Ale", on the bottle as a cask conditioned ale, brewed with flaked barley and "the finest wisconsin malts". No ingredients or specs otherwise per the bottle or website.
Pours out to a hazy pale golden, forming a tall mousse like bone white head with beautiful retention ahndf solid lacing. Carbonation is ~2.75-3.0 or so. The nose is rather non descript, vague, simple and beer like with a touch of DMS and some corn character. No hop character in the nose. Mouthfeel is lightly sparkling, crisp, light bodied. Taste is very pedestrian, but well brewed. Very mild malt character, a little DMS, minimal hop flavor or bitterness, ending crisp and clean. A little seltzer-like. No off flavors or aromas for the style of cream ale. Don't think this is a saison when you read farmhouse.
A very pedestrian but well brewed cream ale, meant for the enjoyment of the masses with minimal hop, malt or yeast character. Worth a try as part of their line up but I would never choose to buy it considering their other amazing sours.
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3.86/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
12 oz bottle, thanks bro- Pours hazy straw golden with a medium white head with decent retention. The Aroma is lemon, yeast, grassy. The taste is lemony, yeasty, banana, clove, like a thinner German style hefe, a session hefe, good beer.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
12 oz bottle, thanks bro- Pours hazy straw golden with a medium white head with decent retention. The Aroma is lemon, yeast, grassy. The taste is lemony, yeasty, banana, clove, like a thinner German style hefe, a session hefe, good beer.
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4.25/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Everything a cream ale should be.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Everything a cream ale should be.
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4.74/5 rDev +26.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
This beer is awesome. I love cream ale, and this one is my new favorite. They only sell this in Wisconsin (stupid) so my wife picks it up on her way home from work for me. I live in northeast Iowa so it's not to far, but would be nice if I could get it here. The taste is incredibly smooth, not to sweet and not to bitter.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
This beer is awesome. I love cream ale, and this one is my new favorite. They only sell this in Wisconsin (stupid) so my wife picks it up on her way home from work for me. I live in northeast Iowa so it's not to far, but would be nice if I could get it here. The taste is incredibly smooth, not to sweet and not to bitter.
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2.17/5 rDev -42%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
3.57/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
4.42/5 rDev +18.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
3.6/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A little bready and malty for my tastes, but overall a smooth cream ale on a summer day. Reminded me of a German wheat in some respects.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A little bready and malty for my tastes, but overall a smooth cream ale on a summer day. Reminded me of a German wheat in some respects.
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4.13/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4.25
3.93/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
12 oz can purchased August 17 in Wisconsin, of course.
L: 2F+ head pretty good retention with cap and ring and some lacing. Beer is a semi hazy deep golden.
S: Lactose (shocking!) and bready, yeasty notes.
T: Very bready with dairy presence. Neutral finish. Lightly hopped.
F: Light to medium body and carbonation. Good construction and balance, even if final result is a little bit watery.
O: Decent cream ale.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
12 oz can purchased August 17 in Wisconsin, of course.
L: 2F+ head pretty good retention with cap and ring and some lacing. Beer is a semi hazy deep golden.
S: Lactose (shocking!) and bready, yeasty notes.
T: Very bready with dairy presence. Neutral finish. Lightly hopped.
F: Light to medium body and carbonation. Good construction and balance, even if final result is a little bit watery.
O: Decent cream ale.
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Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing Company
Beer rating:
3.74 out of
5 with
3,582 ratings
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5