Buffalo Bills Orange Blossom Cream Ale

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

I really like the label! The aroma is very orange, but slightly syrupy. Not much aroma of anything else. Taste is pretty much the same. Slight bit of hops on the finish, but that’s pretty much it. Doesn’t feel like a cream ale. The bubbles are too big. I wish it were either more crisp or more beer-ish. As it is, just too syrupy.

Clear amber color with a small white head. Aroma of orange soda and little else. Odd chalky orange flavor that was a bit too sweet with no other flavors standing out. Not very good.

I should have just gotten some orange soda. That’s really all this is. I was craving beer, and this just does not get the job done at all. Orange soda aroma, flavor, and palate. Appearance is a little more like morning piss. I’m all about experimental beers, but this is bad. O’Fallon brewery is a much better experimental brewery. Avoid this orange soda.

pale orange, white head. aroma of orange popsicles and soda. flavour is like orange popsicles mixed with a litter beer. weird.

Having enjoyed some great fruit-essence beers from breweries like Fraoch and New Glarus, Buffalo Bill seems amateurish but ok. Color is golden and suggestion could almost say orange. Mouthfeel is thickly-carbonated but honey-thin. Aroma is of an orange cream soda. Flavor is ... like a slightly-hopped orange crush. The main deficit is that a fruit beer should be a better _combination_ of fruity essence as well as the typical beer ingredients: hops & malt & great water. For some reason, this beer seems to lead to an immediate thirst for water. Nevertheless, a pleasant drink.

You can definitely smell the orange. Kind of smells and tstes like an Orange Julius. I’m surprised at the classification of a seasonal winter beer, as I have only seen it available this summer and I can only conceive of drinking it on a hot summer day. Not bad, but not really a beer either. Light and refreshing. My girlfriend & sister (who aren’t really into beer) both loved it.

06.16.05 12oz bottle. Orange tinged golden pour (probably my imagination) with thin white head that fades to a lasting, lacing ring. Smells like orange PEZ, for real. Similar to orange soda, but definitely PEZ, and a bit flowery. Not really an unpleasant aroma like many fruit beers, and I think it can be tough to tell the difference between an artificial orange smell and just orange extract. Still, I’m having trouble finding a beer smell, just fruit. Flavor is the same. I really don’t taste beer but for a mild graininess on the finish. I don’t get honey at any point. Light, fizzy, tingly body doesn’t really scream ’cream ale’. I get that lip tingle from the orange oils that I get from fresh orange rinds. Why the hell is this a winter seasonal? Weird and only barely beer, but it’s entirely drinkable and I could see this being popular among non-beergeek types.

Yellow with a disapearing white head. Flavor and aroma is very similar to orange soda.