Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Boonville, California USA

Bottled. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Sweet aroma of malts, caramel, fruits and dried fruits. Sweet flavour of caramel, fruits and dried fruits.

I’ve had both the draft and bottled version, which was virtually the same. Cloudy copper/amber in color with a small head. Sweet aromas of hops, spice, vanilla, and bread. Vanilla cream flavor, with hints of spice. Tasty, but I prefer the Winter Solstice.

An amber beer with a thin orange-brown head. The aroma is hoppy with notes of oranges and grapefruit, while the flavor is sweet with notes of caramel as well as slight notes of hops.

Bottle. Cloudy copper color with 1/4" head that dissipated very quickly. Faint aroma of malts and doughnuts (or coffee cake -- some breakfast pastry). Flavors I picked up: mild citrus, cream soda, and glazed doughnuts. Creamy with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Decent.

Dark copper color with a thin head. Very nice aroma of chocolate and orange, with what I think is cardamom. The taste had the orange, but it turned funky. Not quite sour, not quite bitter, but somewhere on that spectrum of not-so-goodness. Decent malt base.

Virtually no aroma. Cloudy amber. Orange color with a bubble two finger thick head. Cream soda and vanilla dominate the flavor profile with an off putting chemical sweetness int he aftertaste.

Ok, I thought this was a much better beer than rated here, maybe because I had it initially in the dead of summer, but I just picked up the last remaining bit at the store. Pours out copper/amber, nice caramel and cream aroma, refreshing and smooth with a cream soda after taste.

Copper amber ruby body with light ringing white head. Pastrami caramel aroma. Strong vanilla flavor. Smooth drinkable palate. Lasting vanilla finish.