Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Boonville, California USA

This beer pours a nice golden color with a big, creamy head. It doesn’t smell quite strongly enough for me and is a bit generic. It’s sweet, maybe a bit caramel-ish with malt as the strongest presence. The beer tastes pretty good at first with a lot of sweet malt but finishes with a not so great note. For some reason, it reminded me of old crackers, but that’s not quite right. This is probably just a personal dislike of Cream Ales, which I’ve found often have a funny aftertaste. The mouthfeel is quite creamy, but the off note really hurts things for me. I appreciate that the carbonation is light to keep the feel creamy, but I found it to be a bit watery upfront and I’m probably just reacting to the lack of carbonation.

Bottle. Pours a hazy light copper with minimal head. Nice aroma of sweet malt and spice. Taste is thin, caramel, spice, and bread.

what kinda fuckin joke is this... smells of straight tequila . . pours a light ruby brown . . light medium foam . . tastes awful! . . worst liquid ever put in my mouth (no comment) . . i’d rather take 3 boiling shots of oven cleaner back to back ..

Pours hazy caramel colored with an eggshell colored head. Aroma is dusty hops with some lactic sour notes and grainy malts. The flavor is light and watery with a slight smooth sweetness of nuts and vanilla. Bread crust hop finish.

Anderson Valley Brewing Company--Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema--2005 Release--12 oz. Bottle. 5.60% ABV--35 IBU’s? (4.5 / 5.0) Cream Ale--Amber. Lacy tight head. Clear rich bright copper red color. English mild floral hop front. Velvet silky toasted malty English cherry caramel doughy body. Mild malt spice hop end. Smooth and very tasty. Sampled 6/6/2005. Summer Solstice cerveza crema 2008. 12 oz. 5.60% 20IBU’s?4.25 / 5.0 Cream Ale--Amber. Dense lacy off white head.Clear bright ruby color.Mild hop malt black cherry fruit front.Creamy rich toasted toffee fruit earthy rich bisquit body.Cloying malty mild hop rich balanced end.Tasty rich malty Cream Ale. 6/7/2008. $1.69 each. summer solstice cerveza crema--Ale Brewed With Natural Flavor--MicroCan 2009. 12 oz. 5.60% 4 IBU’s 4.25 / 5.0 Cream Ale--Amber Flat thin lace off white head.Clear rich bright deep amber red color.Malty mild floral vanilla hop front.Creamy cloying mild sweet mild toasted malty caramel vanilla cream dough mild fruit body.Smooth mild hop spice cloying malt tang hint end.Canned flat? 8/14/2009 6-Pack--$9.99

Bottle [12oz]. Pours an almost clear bubbly amber-copper with an average size frothy off-white head. Mild aroma of caramel malt, some nuts, mild vanilla and very light green hops. Flavour of caramel malt, light tart fruit, vanilla and a hint of nuts. Average bodied. As far as Cream Ales go it’s pretty good, as a beer it’s just O.K.

A hazed reddish amber ale with a thick creamy light moka head. A rather smooth aroma of vanilla cream and light peated notes. In mouth, a smooth and lightly cloying malt, vanilla/Bailey’s overtones, light cardboard....not my thing.

Pours dark golden to copper with a fully receding off-white head. Notes of phenolic spice, cinnamon, caramel, brown sugar. Medium bodied and slightly sticky with soft carbonation. Seemed a bit messy to me, under-attenuated for a summer beer and the spices weren’t working for me.