Buffalo Bills Orange Blossom Cream Ale

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

Bottle. The aroma is sweet orange candy. The flavor is very sweet - exactly like orange tic-tacs. Some mild flavor of wheat and strong orange peel.

Bottle. Pours cloudy golden with a quickly-dissipating white head. Aroma is straight-up orange. Tastes somewhat like carbonated orange juice - not as sweet as orange soda. Good clean finish. Definitely interesting, and not bad either.

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Fruity orange aroma. White head. Clear golden coloured and very fruity orange flavour with a crisp and dry finish.

This beer is not really a credit to the craft beer scene, unfortunately. I can imagine a good beer that was a genuine cream ale, and I can imagine a beer with orange being quite tasty. But the twain meet horribly in this honeyed-beyond-belief beverage. Saccharine soda-pop aromas, like hyperrealistic rose petals, attack your nostrils, curling the hairs. Tastes like a bad soda too, sugary, imperceptibly beerlike in actual flavor, what there is that is reminiscent of beer. A pox upon this beer.

I only had a small sample so this is all based on that small amount. You can definitely smell the orange. Kind of smells like an Orange Julius and tastes like and orange soda with an ale after taste. Seems like a summer brew, I think that I would only get is a hot summer day. Not bad, but not typical beer either. Overall light and refreshing. Got it for my girlfriend and she really liked it. Give it a shot if you are looking for a fruity beer.

From bottle. Has a weak aroma of ginge ale and Orange Crush or similar orange-drink type of soda. Carbonic gaseousness and a light sweet bit of wheat malt. No hops stand out, though there is a spicy component. Hazy golden amber with no head. Medium-light watery body with heavy carbonation - fizzy. Starts mildly sweet with a bit of wheaty-pilsner malt base, topped with some watery orange-drink type of flavor, carbonic acidity, and some mild spicy bitterness. Not horrible, but just doesn’t do it for me. Orange in beer is dicey, and this one didn’t pan out for my liking, though my wife enjoyed it.

Light clear orange with a quick white fizz that leaves a still body. Smells like fake orange drink, slight metallic note, light pale malts. Taste is roughly the same, simple metallic cheap pale malt with a rush of artificial orange flavor over that.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a pale yellow, straw color; clear with chill haze and a coarse frothy white head that quickly subsides. Aroma is lightly malty with pleasant subtle orange blossom notes. Flavor is similar with a straightforward malt base, some nice floral and sweet honey-ish notes from the orange blossom, some grassy hops, and a dry finish. Light bodied, and fairly smooth and creamy. Highly carbonated. Fruit character begins to be more assertive with time. Pretty good summer/lawnmower beer.