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Butte Creek Christmas Cranberry Ale

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Butte Creek Christmas Cranberry Ale

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A Fruit Beer formerly brewed by
Butte Creek Brewing Company

Chico, California USA

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602.87/5.02.87/5.0Winter5.2%59.2Flute P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Just a hint of a cranberry fruitiness under a pleasant Christmas ale. Perfect for a Merry Christmas and a Hoppy New Year. Available December & January

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 JagerQueen (123), Shoreline, Washington, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20

Jul 20, 2004  
Pours an orange red with a fluffy white head. Aroma is very much like pine needles and cranberry. Very wreathlike. Taste is very similar, earthy cranberries, pine needles, some citrus. Slightly bitter finish, aleish.

 ogglethorp (801), Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Mar 28, 2008  
Bottle. Sweet Jesus, what was I thinking?? Popped open the bottle and it exploded all over, big time gusher. What remained poured a hazy pinkish amber color with a huge, dense, off white head. Aroma is light fruits, light malt. Flavor is tart cranberry, soap, light malts. Palate is medium to light bodied, way over carbonated, finished tart. Not veery good.


 Angeloregon (2002), Portland, Oregon, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 30, 2007  
From a 22oz. bottle purchased at Woodstock Wine and Deli in Portland, OR--Poured a light amber red-orange body with a small almost nonexistent head. Nose of mild fruit and faint malts. Pretty uneventful and easy drinking. Finished moderately dull and barely bitter.


 aspidites (1268), manteca, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/103/510/20
Nov 24, 2007  
Soapy extract laden nose. Saccharine like sweetness on the palate with mild malt notes. Soapy finish.


 mcbackus (665), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/515/20
Nov 1, 2007  
bottle thanks to dragonstout: pours an orangy red with a white head. aroam of cranberry and other pit fruits, also some malty sweetness. flavour is a bitter fresh fruit and sweet malts colliding. finishes dry and a little bitter.


 DragonStout (1183), Orlando, Florida, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Oct 31, 2007  
thanx to Elmatador for sending this our way.Pours dark amber with a cranberry and peaches nose. Flavor had mild cranberries with a small tart bite.The finish was slightly tart.



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