Buffalo Bills Orange Blossom Cream Ale

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

Fridge Temp. Cloudy orange yellow in an English pt. Aroma is lots of orange no malt to speak of. Mouthfeel is light a bit soda like. Tastes slightly sweet, a bit like a fermented orange. Finishes with yet more orange and just a hint of bitterness. Would rather have this than any soda, but lack most of the characteristics of beer. Would score this much higher if the site was called ratebeverage.com.

Smells like the old time Orange Crush. Lousy label, medium orange-gold beer with virtually no head. Orange flavored, that’s it - moderately sweet, next to no hopping. Medium light body. Not cloying, but strictly one dimensional.

Clear golden color. No head to speak of yet very effervescent like a soda or gingerale. Strong orange aroma like Fanta. Body is like soda water. Thin and watery. No substance. Not even enough orange flavor to make worth finishing. What the F*** were they thinking?

This beer is just plain terrible, and keep in mind that I LIKE fruit beers, so for me to say this Orangey beer sucks is really saying something. It truly hurts me to say, because I so wanted to like this. In fact, of the 100 beers I’ve acquired recently, this was one of the ones I was most enthused about (no joke). Its problem is that it is so watery that it rivals any BMC crap. Drinking Buffalo Bill’s Orange Blossom was like sipping a flavored seltzer water. There is literally NO BEER IN HERE! The malt is of the lightest sort you can produce and still legally call yourself a brewery. A disgrace!! As for the Orange part of things, the aroma is really strong, but the flavor only hints at citrus. In that respect, this brew reminds me of Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Beer which smells pumpkiny but doesn’t taste it.

12 oz bottle, Whip-In Liquors, Austin, Tx.Pours a light copper with a thin, beady white head. Aroma is akin to St. Joseph’s Children Aspirin. Flavor has a bit of an orange Tang twang to it - very artificial. Not too much else going on, the orange overrides any other flavor that is trying to be delivered here. Mouthfeel is similar to Kool-Aid. Not the best fruit beer.

Bottle: Aroma is just like an orange soda just a tad lighter. Pours an orangish-gold with a big white head that lasts a minute or so. Malty up front with a nice orange flavor. Finish justs seem off though. There’s a sourness and skunk that really screw things up for this beer. Thin and fizzy mouthfeel.

About what I expected. I gave some good amrks to palate ’cause it had a certain bite that was pleasing. Otherwise, do we really need and orange flavored beer?

Bottle poured a light amber with a smallish head. Aroma of oranges..the best part of the beer. Flavor of oranges I guess but a heavy metalic finish.