Buffalo Bills Orange Blossom Cream Ale

Brewed by Buffalo Bills Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Hayward, California USA

I thought this looked interesting. It smells amazing, but pours with little head and looks like a Miller Lite. The overall taste is slightly reminiscent of orange creamsicle, but it needs more flavor and more carbonation - still not a bad summer night beer.

I picked a sixer of this up while out of state. I like oranges and I like beer, but I don’t much like orange beer!

Bottle. Poured a deep orange in color with a cloud white head. The orange flavor is noticable right away with a nice hop bite. This beer, even though it is a winter seasonal, is very refreshing come summer time. It is definitely a different treat.

Orange cream is one of the madeleines of my youth. To a young and amateur ice cream snob it was a stark departure from the heavy chocolate popsicles. The alternative at my household was a screechingly sweet fruit pop, with flavors like “Red”, “Orange” and “Blue”. Lord knows what blue was supposed to taste like. And let’s not even get into those nasty plastic tubes of lightly flavored ice mush. No, to a child of a tender age summer could be tough, with increasingly worse icy treats packing the freezer, each layer more neglected until the next. At some point an archaeologist could come along and get a core sample from the freezer and tell exactly how much I loathed each kind of rejected treat. One day the parents brought home something new – an orange creamsicle. The “orange” popsicle lining the floor of my freezer previously mentioned was a puckering pole of sugar and artificial citrus flavoring, but this heavenly treat was entirely different. Perhaps it was the cream, perhaps it was the orange, perhaps it was the sicle, but something in that glob made everything taste so light, refreshing and free. It was the closest I would come to being a hippie. When I saw Buffalo Bills Brewery Orange Blossom Cream Ale, I knew I had to try it for the sake of my inner youth. I knew nothing could recreate the life changing experience of having a real orange creamsicle at the acme of summer, with the sun sitting high in its arched apogee, but this was only to be a tribute to that time. The head is very loose, frothy and spread, almost as if it were churned before the pour. The body is predictably orange with a light shade of brown, made active by a bustling tragic of carbonation. The aroma is very light, and takes some persistence to map out, but there are striking notes of sweet cream, orange soda, and, of course, the orangesicle popsicle. It’s a very sweet aroma to be sure, but this extreme sugar profile is alloyed in the taste where it mixes more evenly with a wheat flavor and the buzzing carbonation. The orange cream is but a slight tinge that runs from the middle of the taste to the end as the wheat aspect attenuates. It is slightly reminiscent of my youthful salvation-on-a-stick but by no means a fair or accurate representation. I could see the Orange Blossom Cream Ale being a hit with casual drinkers and those less inclined to purchase craft beer, but to someone with a little more experience all the unique qualities are too inaudible. Not a bad drink on a hot day though, especially when you need to appear mature when your glass secretly holds a memory from the freezer long ago.

From the first smell I could tell that there was hinting around with the orange. This beer is is all about the orange flavor, it was intresting but lacked all flavor but the orange. This is a great fofo beer for "cooler" drinkers.

Interesting orange juice nose seemed appealing on this very hot afternoon, but first taste dashed my hopes for this concoction. It suffers from a lack of subtltey...way too sticky sweet and overly oranged-up. My sample also seemed undercarbonated, which led me to the feeling that I was drinking a stale orange crush...but at least I’ve got my spine!?!

This has cloying written all over it.... It pours, yes, deep orange-hay into the glass with a nitrous carbo head that diminishes like a cola... to nothing. The nose is purely SunKist Orange Soda. The flavor has lots of orange peel and extract, with not much in the way of "beer"... The watery-seltzer mouthfeel reminds me of a "flavored soda water". It’s not great... there’s no substance whatsoever... I guess it would be ok in the summertime (forget the commercial "winter" description) when it’s super hot out.

Girlfriend picked this out. Pew. Tastes like artificial orange fruit snacks. This is not good and should not be considered a beer. Gross. Pours a bright orange color with not head and lots of carbonation.