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Creemore Springs lager review
Submitted by Seamus Vaughan, Ashley Cotter-Cairns
The Creemore Moment
The folks at Creemore Springs certainly made this one right.
It's the only beer they offer and the only beer they need to offer. And I think I found the appropriate time to drink it. You know how with Carlsberg, you get the Carlsberg Years? Well, with Creemore you get a Creemore Moment.
Sounds kinda dirty, but I swear it's not, at least not this time... but I will be bringing it to my girlfriend's attention that we need to have a Creemore Moment. Sorry, I was sidetracked.
Right, so last Thursday was pretty rough. My roomates had accidentally broken a few windows while I was gone so I have been on a tear all week. One of them is having a kid in a few weeks and another decided he is dropping out of school and moving home (there is another roomate too, he is having a good week, thanks for asking).
Creemore Springs lager
The one that's moving home still has a few weeks of school left, so he had to catch up on all the assignments he had forgotten about. So, Thursday, he had been up for about two days. He was exhausted and rightly bitchy.
I new he would be home around seven for food so I thought I would surprise him with a cold beer, the cure to any bad day. Normally he would drink Blue, but since I have this godawful burdensome job of reviewing beer, lol, I thought I would get him to help me review something different. I chose Creemore Springs lager.
So there we were, standing in the kitchen, by the pale moonlight (Omigod, is he going to slip his roomie the tongue next? Ed.) when the crack of a fresh beer caused us to break out into dance... sorry, that's the wrong story. Honestly, we were having a heart to heart. Yaya, it happens, we've been roomies for five years and it's all gonna change in a month.
We stood and talked of things to come, drinking the smooth yet bitter-tasting Creemore Springs lager. A sign of things to come perhaps.
Creemore Springs lager has this thickness to it that's like a beer float. It's a calm, chilin' beer and no beer would have been more appropriate for this moment. This Creemore Moment...
...Which lasted until the cans were done. Then we shook our heads and realised that we had a month left to squeeze in some hella good parties. This story isn't over, it's to be continued! But it may have never been the same without that Creemore Moment.
I should go into advertising.
The Creemore Springs lager lunch
So to cut a very long story short, my wife and I are expecting twins anytime now. Only, we've learned that you don't expect twins in the same way you expect a singleton. Twins have a way of being tricky. Our identical boys-to-be share a placenta and several blood vessels, so they have been scanned every couple of weeks to ensure that one is not beating up on the other and stealing all his food.
I did warn you this was a long story.
Anyway, this explains why our friends Patricia and Pete came over on Easter Monday to cook for us. Beats an Easter egg any day! In return for their kindness, I cracked open a few beers I've been looking for an excuse to review, including Creemore Springs lager.
First thing to note was that it's another of
those Canadian orange-red lagers that always surprise me when I pour
them. Appreciating beer properly is all new to me and in my past, lager
was always pale, very fizzy and weird-smelling, so it's a pleasure to
find a new style of lager that is actually friendly on the nose, the
tongue and the stomach.
It's got that harvest festival smell to it, a wholesome, fruity-wheaty scent that makes you long for your lost youth again (providing you could take back a few grand and a list of current stockmarket prices with you).
It's nice to note that Creemore Springs lager isn't too fizzy. It's hoppy, on the bitter side for a lager with a medium-length aftertaste. It went brilliantly with our slightly spicy lunch of linguini with shrimp and mushrooms, spiced with tiny diced medium chillis. The lager cut through the tingle of the chilli to a T.
Creemore Springs lager is very easy to drink. It shares the same alcohol volume of 5% abv that a tin of Stella Artois does; but it is to Stella what Ali is to Tyson. I found the taste of this lager surprisingly complex, given that it's tinned rather than bottled and I think, whether you can manufacture a moonlit Creemore Moment or not, you'll really enjoy this beer. Recommended.
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