New Belgium Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale

Some odd things coming together in Nitro Cold Brew - first, it's flavored with coffee beans, which you don't often work in anything other than the usually heavy stouts and porters. Secondly, it's a cream ale. A cream ale is an ale, that is top fermented in high temperatures but is lagered, i.e. cold conditioned. This gives it a crisp, clean taste as you would expect from a lager, but complex aromas and tastes that you'd get from the typical ale. Nitro Cold Brew pours a dark reddish amber with a quickly disappearing head. It tastes pretty good, but in my opinion the addition of the coffee flavoring detracts from what was probably a decent cream ale.