Craft Cream Ale

Hardywood does a tasty one ... in cans!

 

I have a feeling it will go over well...and you will get laid

 

Delicious and would be easy to trade for.

 

Sixpoint make s a great cream ale but also Horseheads does the cream ale pretty well. if you can get it try it. It's called chemung canal towpath ale.

 

Greenbush Traktor

 

Empire Brewing Co. from Syracuse does a good Cream Ale. Draft only though. If you're ever in Syracuse or NYC look for it. They serve it off Nitro which adds to the creaminess.

 

Genny Cream Ale = Definition of underrated

 

1 more vote for Anderson Valley Summer Solstice. And yeah. I do buy a 30 pack of Genny Cream Ale from time to time if there is an outdoor warm season event. It's pretty good as lawnmower beer and it's not BMC.

 

Bell's Special Double Cream Stout ( Bell's hitting NY oct.1 so it's a bit easier for you to get) and Mikkeller Beer Geek Vanilla Shake.

 

Yep, it is a tasty can O' brew indeed. glad to have it in the backyard.

 

You need to review what a Cream Ale is, then what a Cream Stout/Milk Stout/Sweet Stout is.

 

Third Street has one ("Rise to the Top") that I still have to try, and 'lil 'ol Reads Landing brews a solid version, too.

P.S. Can I get a "what what!" for Little Kings?

 

Made me laugh a little, it's like $5.49 a 12 pack here, is that good or bad? You get what you pay for sounds like a contradiction of you like it, or it's drinkable, but for $5.49 what do you expect.

 

One I thought was really good that I haven't seen around since I had it a couple years back was Sirius from Lagunitas. It's my second favorite next to Sweet Action in my admittedly limited experience with cream ales.

EDIT: Sirius is retired. That explains that.

 

Genny cream ale is $18/30pk here. Again, you get what you pay for and use it appropriately. Buy Anderson Summer Soltice if you want better and the audience can appreciate it. Buy Genny Cream Ale for the BMC'ers since it's closer to what they usually drink and you don't have to buy/suport BMC marcoswill. Win?/Win?

 

I would think that beers classified as Blonde Ales would be acceptable. I have not had Ballantine XXX ale in an extremely long time. Maybe she would like that?

just for the record, I have recently had a Ballantines. It is a sad sad beer. It was the last pale ale brewed in the US so I had to try it. When it shuttered, someone bought it and poured industrial lager into a container labeled with the history of American brewing.


I would have left my day job to take the name and re create the beer.

 

Cream Ales tend to have a lot in common with less-hoppy pale lagers.

Has she tried Dortmunder Gold from Great Lakes? Or, for a (very slightly hoppier) pale lager, she might dig Sly Fox Helles, which also has the can thing going for it.

 

Grazias from Hess Brewing is the best representation I've encoutered of this style. Great beer.

Cheers!

 

Took my kid to Western North Carolina for camp last week. Picked up a 30-pack of Genesee Cream Ale for $14.99. If that exact beer had been brewed (and canned) by some hipster Asheville "craft" brewery it would've cost $14.99 for a 6-pack.

Buy and drink the Genesee and enjoy.

 

Could not agree more with this. Creams ales are, to me, the most basic of 'basic drinkers'. Beer to swill whilst downing a tasty pizza, calzone, tacos, etc. And Spotted Cow is just about perfect for this.