Northern Breweries Cream Ale

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

This is another beer I had a while ago that was quickly forgotten. Pale gold with very little head. The aroma was weak, and the flavour was almost putrid. Another beer to avoid (if they still make it).

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottle from Lubière: Poured a golden yellow le with a medium foamy head with good retention. Aroma of floral hops is quite interesting with some sweet malt. Taste has a real creamy texture with some sweet malt and light dry floral finish. Not bad but not great either and not something that I would seek again.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Drink this real, real fast-almost chug and only out of the bottle as that's the only way it's drinkable. Do not let this get warm at all. Final grade: D-

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

This cream ale pours a golden colour with hardly any head, no retention, no carbonation and no lace. The nose is hoppy with hints of honey. The mouthfeel is fizzy and the taste is very light. Slight bitterness throughout with a mild malty aftertaste. Refreshing, but very bland overall.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 3

Second and last of the new Northern cheapified adjunct beers I intend to taste. I will not try the "light" because all these new Northen brews have the same traits: watery, fizzy, poor head retention, weak lacing, cardboard tasting high gravity yeast, reaking of adjucts and rice alcohol and a sickley crystal clear pale yellow color...I have to wonder if coloring and hop extract were used on this so called "cream ale" to acheive the grassy nose and produce a slight variation from the "premium" lager....the flavor prifile is so full of brewer’s rice alcohol burn it is difficult to miss. This is what makes these beers harsh if served at warmer temperatures. Really hard to tell the new northern ale or lager apart taste wise...they’re that identical and characterless.///probably the same process, adjuncts and yeast. Give it a pass. This is cheap fizzy adjunct swill is going at premium prices ...it has nothing in common with the all-malt brew of the old Northern Breweries....It has far more in common with the Steelback brews. All I can say is that tasting this swill is that the great tradition of unique tating brews from Northen Brewers is over...welcome to bland yellow fizzy corn swill conformity.