Indian Wells Orange Blossom Amber

Brewed by Indian Wells Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Inyokern, California USA

Hazy, orangey colour. Smells like orange soda. Very orangey, fizzy. Not much body. Very soda-like.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of Swalden 28) Pours a lightly hazy golden orange body with a small white head. Aroma of Tang and some dustiness. Flavor of watered down orange soda.

Bottle from beeronthewall. Pours clear orangy coppery with nose of tangerine, mild malt. Tastes malty, with a pronounced orange flavor that gets more syrupy as it warms. An original idea that comes off perhaps better in theory than in practice.

Bottle from Whole Foods in Sacramento, CA. Darkly golden color with a slight white head. Aroma is definitely orange. Rather thin body with coarse carbonation. Flavor is primarily orange oil. Any bitter is the same. Ok, if orange is what you want. Maybe one of the better of this sort of thing. At least it’s not obviously lagery.

Bottle from Swalden28. Pours golden with some white fizz a-top. Aroma of Sunny-D and seltzer water. Taste is water, seltzer, congealed orange peel and a bit of spice. Nothing else. Fizzy. The commercial description sounds very unsanitary to me as a homebrewer.

If I wanted orange soda I would buy fanta. This is not made with fresh orange peels, but orange soda extract. If you are a chick or a gay ass dude who likes fruit in their beer, than this is the beer for you. If not, just drink fruit soda. You could mix fanta with vodka and it would taste the same and get you more fucked up than this offering. Holla at yo boy!

Draft at Bakersifelds Brews in The Village; Nose of orange and citrus; orange copper color with a small white head; flavor was orange peel (not too sweet) with some citrus hops.

Bottle. Clear tangerine color with thick white head and lasting foam. Potent orange cream soda aroma. Creamy mouthfeel with lots more orange cream flavors. Note that this brewery is also a craft soda maker...it’s sweet.