Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema

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

Very interesting brew. Creamy and smooth mouthfeel, with bold flavors of vanilla, caramel, and maybe butterscotch. Some spiced flavors are in there as well, but no real hop presence that I noticed. I’ve never really had a beer like this one before, and it was quite enjoyable.

Pours a cloudy amber colour with a medium frothy off white head. Aroma of toasted malts and some fruits. Initial taste of strong strawberry hard candy(very similar to a blow pop or other strawberry candies), although toasty in the background. Still remaining sweet throughout and finishing dry with some bitter hops. Palate duration does cut short, would have liked to see the duration on this one. Some head retention, light-medium bodied. Overall an interesting one.

Bottle sampled. Pours amber in color with a one finger beigh head. Aroma of light malts, caramel toasted grain and a hint of vanilla. Flavor is slightly sweet with malts, fruits, caramel, and some spices with a clean finish. Very refreshing.

12oz bottle. Pourscloudy amber color with off white head. Aroma is sweet and malty. Taste of malt and vanilla with very dry finish.

Medium brown with a minimal off white head. Aroma of oranges and vanilla. Flavor of oranges, buttered toast, and a subtle spice. Fizzy, and more watery than creamy. A pretty weird beer.

Bottle: Poured a brownish amber, looks dirty and not clear until I looked closer, looks dark for a Cream Ale, some bubbles that disappeared for the most part, malt and sweet fragrances, faint berry-fruit, toasted and malt bread fragrances, taste of malt and faint fruit, thin to medium mouth feel, some hop bitterness and the drink ends medium dry but there is a odd taste in the finish, this beer was off for me and I would not buy again.

(Bottle, Akkurat, Stockholm) Copper colour with firm off-white head. Malty nose with sourish notes of wheat, milk chocolate, cocoa and fresh figs. Malty taste with chocolate and berries (cherries, blueberries). Not very bitter, balanced sweetness. Creamy mouthfeel with distinct notes of blueberries with milk in the finish. Good balance. A bit different, but quite nice beer.

pours a somewhat cloudy dark copper with a one finger fluffy bubbly light brown head. the head does not stick around to long. aroma is faint malt and hops with a faint orange characteristic. has a light body with spotty lacing and good carbonation. flavor is the same as aroma but a little stronger. has a creamy mouth feel of course. this is an ok beer nothing spectacular it is session-able. as it warms there is a little sweet flavor and aroma, and a little bit of a spice of some sort.