Buffalo Bills Orange Blossom Cream Ale

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

Pours a crystal clear gold with a big-bubbled head that fizzes away quickly. The aroma is serious orange/tangerine hard candy. There is no more body than water and you get a touch of corn under the orange in the flavor. Really tastes like an orange soda that’s going flat.

Opened the bottle and poured into my party cup, and whamo.... tangerines everywhere, strong orange aroma with some spice mixed in. The pour was gold with orange shades, decent initial head, ok lacing. Not only was the aroma strong, but so was the flavor, lots of oranges, just like FANTA, that classic orange soda, exactly like that. The beerness was maintained by some sort of a wheat type taste, not sure if they actually put it in there, but that musty type background flavor along with a nagging spice kept this one from being a nice fruit beer. I won’t seek this one out again.

Bottle: Pale golden, clear, thin white spritzy head, light carbonation, spotty lacing.   Orange cream soda on the nose, moreso orange than cream.   Diet orange soda flavor, very light cream aspect.   A little graininess is present, pale malts, semi-sweet, being a little tacky on the finish.   Decent fruit beer, but the finish is a little rough and it seemed a bit too artificial.

Bottle. Pours a clear orangey gold without much head. Not overly carbonated. Scented with orange. This slightly bitter, a little sweet orange infused brew was actually pretty nice. None of the flavors were all that abundant, but certainly were there. Refreshing. I had it with a brownie and the combination was quite nice. Maybe a dessert beer?

Pours golden/orange, with a white head. Aroma is pretty much all oranges. Flavors are orange, with a little spice. Doesn’t seem like a beer to me.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange/gold with a smallish off-white head. Strong, slightly herbal aroma of Mandarin oranges and Tang. Thin, watery and overly carbonated. Interesting. Tastes like an orange soda. Kinda spritzy with an orange Gatorade flavor. Some vanilla cream in the aftertaste along with some authentically zesty orange peel. Not unpleasant at all, just not exactly the flavors I’d normally look for in a beer. More than one could easily get too sickeningly sweet. Still, it’s quite refreshing.

Zero beer flavor, more akin to a cooler. Slightly refreshing on a warm afternoon though.

Bottle. Aroma was just like I poured some orange kool-aid in my glass. Pale gold in body color with white head that disipated quick. Flavor was a mild mix of orange, sugar and tartness. Left a somewhat dry orange peal aftertaste.