Sleeman Cream Ale

Remarkably smooth for a full-flavoured beer. Our founder’s intention was to combine the refreshing taste of a German lager with the distinctive taste of an English Ale without blending the two.

2.4

466 reviews

Guelph, Canada

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2.1 D’un doré étincelant, la bière supporte une mousse moyennement épaisse qui ne disparaît pas rapidement. Céréales sucrées. Insipidité. Pas crémeuse du tout. Très bonne avec du Clamato. Non. Pas vraiment plus dans le fond.

1.9 Pratiquement de la même couleur que ses consœurs. Un nez de malt et de sirop quelconque. Un goût de malt, alors qu’une effervescence passe au travers une texture soyeuse. On a l’impression qu’elles toutes du même brassin, avec une étiquette différente. (1308-241014)

2.4 355ml can shared with jeevan, cheers (I think!) Pours clear gold, thin white head. Grain and metal aromas. Taste is lager-like, more metal, astringent finish. Not great.

1.1 Sample at Atlantic Beer Festival Moncton. Bright clear neon yellow color, cocoa-cola head. Aroma of corn and cereal. Taste is light cereal.

3.4 Can from Marche 54. A pale cream with a big fluffy head of foam that leaves great lacing. Cream and light biscuit and fruity sweet. The beer has a medium body and a malty sweet flavor with some cream soda notes. A solid light beer.

1.7 341ml bottle. Clear gold with a thin white head. Flavors are corn, citrus and grass. Light body, fizzy carbonation, oily texture.

2.2 Canette 355ml. Couleur jaune paille translucide, mousse blanche fuyante. Arôme de céréales, herbal. Goût de céréales, maïs?, herbal léger. Carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen-faible.

2.2 English hop aromas, some DMS and some white bread dough. Taste is muted. Grainy with some grassiness from the hops and finishes balanced. Golden colour with a quickly dissipated head. Not worth revisiting.

1.1 Bottle. Blah. Aroma is of grain skunk. Tastes much the same with some sweet hay and noticeable skunk flavour. Very light sweet body. This is a bad beer.

1.6 Pours light straw yellow with a small white top. Aroma is light skunk, light grain and some noble hop. Taste is slightly smooth, oxidation, and some noble hop.

4.5 Bière blonde de 5 %. Odorat amer et sucré. Aucun col au versement. Petit goût sucré, avec une finale crémeuse en bouche. Également, il y a une amertume présente, mais elle s’estompe vite, remplacé par une finale de torréfaction. Pas d’épice particulière, petit soupçon de toffee. Excellente !

2.1 Funny how I always seem to not bother to rate with meh to crappy beers. But with this I’ll try to fix that. Pours golden with white head that dissipates rather quickly. Smells of malts and grains. Tastes of malts, a little bitterness, not a lot else. It’s beer, and you could drink it by the bucket, but really why would you want to. Rating: Meh.

2.4 Bottle at airport lounge in Toronto. It's a pale golden colour with an ever so slightly malty aroma. It's got ok body compared to what I was expecting. It's not great though.

2.3 Scent of hops and yeast. Clear gold colour. Abrupt bitterness without much discernible flavour. Medium body with mild carbonation. Not my sort of beer.

2.1 Poured with minimal head and an orange hue. Basic taste with fair amount of fizz. Ok macro brew to consume while watching sports.

2.0 Aroma: Vrry subtle aroma but some faint bitterness can be picked up Taste: Very light maltiness with bitter/basic creamy after taste. Pretty bland overall Appearance: Very pale clear gold body with poorly retained head

2.0 [[Style tick]] Pours a light golden with a small head with low retention but that still offers good lacing. Aroma is hard to describe as it is almost nonexistent but I’ll venture and say that it smells of creamed corn and light floral hops. Taste isn’t too much better with some really light cereals and a lightly (almost to homeopathic level) bitter finish. Mouthfeel is watery, carbonation level medium. As people said, this is as close to a cream ale than a 18% imperial stout would be. Boring to death...

1.3 Airport lounges are great for ticking off crappy macro brews, and Toronto airport delivers in style! Quite yellow this beer, and quite flat looking despite being fizzy. Smells of vaguely skunky hops. Tastes of very little, which may be a blessing in disguise.

2.9 Bière blonde, translucide, avec un col de mousse éphémère et une effervescence soutenue. Le nez est tout en céréales avec une touche citronnée. En bouche, le grain et l’acidité, que je qualifiait de «citronnée» au nez, rappliquent. La bière est mince, aqueuse et pétillante. La finale laisse poindre une amertume modérée. Bien balancée, rafraîchissante, bonne, mais loin d’un classique.

2.2 Just opting for something tonight, so I brought home a case of this. It’s not because I am particularly fond of Sleeman’s, but more for the name of the style. I have a very fond memory of drinking some absolutely delicious cream ale once at a restaurant my brother snuck me into while I was 16. Maybe it was because I wasn’t such a beer snob back in the paleolithic period, but even so, the memory of that golden nectar lives on. It wasn;t Sleeman’s, I know that for sure; some small local brewery made it, though damned if I can recall it. Anyway. Sleeman’s. Clear bottle, clear beer, looks like it had already been drank once. Pours with a very short-lived head. Aroma is basic sweet, bready, megabrew beer smell. Taste is also quite light, a bit of balance there with some hops, finishes with a lightly bready flavour that isn’t as bad as a lot of megabrew. Not exactly a stellar beer, but I’d not be against having some on a hot day.

2.6 I used to like this beer, in a different life. I wasn’t so impressed now, after so many years. Maybe it hasn’t changed, but compared to the usual crap, this was much better than anything mainstream. It does smell like a lager - actually an average Pilsener, and it has the mouthful of an ale, with a bit of maltiness and biscuit behind a lager bitterness. Strange, but not too bad.

3.2 Delicious Canadian beer. Slightly bitter but we’ll rounded. Hay, nuts, toast, caramel.

1.7 I wanted to like this beer, but alas. The aroma isn’t much to speak of, but the flavour hits you - sweet with a sour edge, noticeable corn and cereal notes, perhaps a little malty. Nothing inherently bad, but it simply isn’t good. The sourness really throws it off - and it’s not necessarily a skunky sour.

1.4 341 ml. bottle from Sleeman selections pack, thanks Kent! Pours a pale yellow- light gold colour- instant carbonation, very bubbly. Head disappears quickly leaving minimal lacing. Aroma: straw, corn, malt, grass- weak aroma altogether. Taste: malt, corn, butter, bread, caramel, minimal hops, cherry. Palate: grains, butter, oily body- and an oily mouthfeel as well. Besides the creamy texture and oily palate, this lager is nothing but creamy club soda disguised as beer. Bland, weak, and watery; but what else can you expect from a macrobrewery trying to take a shot at cream ales?

0.8 Crack the cap and smell the snunk 2 feet away. Ships in a clear bottle to Hong Kong so its no wonder. Smells like hot corn oil. Yellow in color with a white head. Taste is like honeycomb cereal. Finish is sweet and velvety. Good for breakfast, I guess. Actually better for a drainpour.

2.1 Bottle as a gift, believe me, I wouldn’t be buying this shit with a gun to my head. Death would surely be better. Poured hazy orange puke with bright white head, no lacing. Nose of stale lager, stale corn, german gross malt, and bread. Taste is bitterness and some more gross malt. Gross.

1.9 341 ml. bottle. Pours clear and golden with small white head that does not keep long. Bready aroma with a hint of hops, apples,citrus, grass. The sweetness of corn and or rice is certainly apparent in the taste. With medium carbonation, leaves a relative clean palate. A thin beer, very light for a cream Ale. Nothing special

1.7 341 ml clear bottle bought at CitySuper in New Town Plaza, Shatin. Clear golden yellow colour; Very thin head and residual white foam which last for about 20 seconds; Near zero lacing with lively carbonation; Smell of light skunk, thin malt, sweet corn, syrup, and grass. Thankfully the skunk died out pretty fast after 1 minutes; Mid to light sweet taste of light malt, with sweet corn, strong rice, light bread, club soda, lemon, sugar syrup, citrus and light grass; Med to light body, watery palate; Taste is flat and thin American blond ale taste, not creamy at all, with strong corn and rice plus a dash of syrup in the middle. Oh dear… Hoppiness is fairly light grassy nose, light citrus and straw taste, plus barely detectable bitterness. Light sweet finish; Slightly dry after taste, very easy to mouth. Comments: During my time in Canada, Guelph was a really small town, and macro-wise Sleeman was a nobody when compared to Molson and Labatt, so I wonder why Sapporo bought it up… back to the brew: its cheapo clear bottle and skunk nose gave me the poor impression, and the grainy sweet corn syrupy taste certainly enhance the brand’s lowly reputation. Other than that, it’s pretty much true to the style, nothing outstanding and quite a easy drinking. It comes to this shore at imported price, and sure enough it doesn’t worth the money.

1.2 Pale yellow pour. Blah. Creamed corn. Too sweet. To be expected, I guess.

2.4 Smells like corn, budweiser. White head dissipates immediately. Light golden aroma. Sweet, light bodied, apples, tart and acid finish