Taps Brewing Red Cream Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

A pretty good offering from a small Canadian micrbrewer. A copper coloured beer with a malty aroma. The flavour is sweet malt, and hops. Very well balanced in my opinion.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

473ml can
4.9% ABV
I tried this beer on May 9, 2008 after purchasing from the Queen's Quay LCBO outlet. The beer poured a beautiful translucent rusty red colour with some effervescence leading to a short-lived whitish head. The aroma was sweet malt, some fruit tones (I'm thinking plums), and a little hoppiness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, amply carbonated, and a little sour on the tongue. The flavour is no where near as fruity as the aroma. There is some sweet maltiness, some sourness in the middle, and slightly bitter finish. This beer suited my tastes quite well.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Great long lasting head. I don't get how this is a cream ale as this is way more an Irish red ale. The taste is sweet, like apples dipped in caramel. Not bad, not something I would drink alot though. Whatever you do do not sample this out of the can, only the glass. Would love to try this brewer's other stuff.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Another 473 ml can (label the same as the pictured bottle) compliments of Pootz. Pours a orange brown color with a thick white head. Large bubbles settle down to a thin floating cap, thin lacing. Smell is a bit malty with some fruity sweetness. Taste is grainy and malty, with a bit of a sour finish. Mouthfeel is a bit thin, but that keeps it refreshing and easy to drink. Medium carbonation, good for a cream ale. Nothing spectacular, but another enjoyable beer, consumed under the warm sun on my deck.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

This is a style that continues to disappoint me. I think it has a serious case of mistaken identity, because there is no way this is creamy. Sure, creamy head maybe, or a soft mouthfeel, but not actually creamy. I want Bailey's style creamy, not whatever this is trying to portray. Anyways...

Copper red body, looks great when held to the light. Sudsy head that doesn't decide to stick around. Alot of caramel in the aroma, and its quite nice. Taste presents some light malts to start, slightly burnt. Finishes with a tart mouthfeel and a bitter flavour. The overall mouthfeel is slightly carbonated. This could be tasty enough to work well as a session ale, but in the end I didn't really get any special satisfaction out of it.

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

I really dislike this beer,quite sour for a cream ale,reddish and looking sick, no roundness this beer to me is simply awful one of the worst i ever tried...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Second brew tasted from Taps Brewing, found in cans at the LCBO. Pours a hazy copper-amber colour with good decent small bubbled carbonation. Very nice creamy off-white head that leaves lacing all around. Great nose of butterscotch and nuts, with a little hop. Then something odd happens. Sourness appears. And when tasted, a real sour punch occurs. Not a bad one though, and does not feel like a beer-turned-bad. Maybe because this one is not a macro ? I read others that have not had this problem. Must be a good cream ale at that point. Too bad, their premium lager turned bad on me quickly once I bought it. Had to drainpour my last bottle.

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

Can: Poured a medium amber color ale with a great white bubbly head with average retention. Aroma of light malt with some hints of sweetness. Taste is also comprised of semi-sweet malt with no hops discernable. Body is lightly creamy but overall this beer is really lacking in character.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

An interesting twist on the cream ale style....amber carmel malts add some dimension to the fruity tastes left by the yeast. Pour puts an amber-red ale in the glass with a smallish sticky off white cap that reduced to a surface clinging lace...aromas of caramel, spice, fruits...very subdued. Medium-light bodied with a creamy mouth feel. Sweet up front like toast and toffee but there are enough hops to yeast by products to offer a nice fruity undertone...the finish is the best best part of this ale... the hops and roasted malt "char" gang up to turn the caramel sweetness into a kind of licorice-toffee taste with a light fruity side note.....very different but in a nice way. Some may say this is too sweet for an ale but I think that the malts sweetness is well enough in check to keep the drink from becoming cloying even though the balance is a bit malt weighted.