Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema

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

Bottled. Ruby, brief head. Aroma of toffee with a hint of red currant. Fairly sweet with soothing creamy mouthfeel and medium body. The flavours are wrapped in layers of soft cotton, creating a pleasant, but one-dimensional beer.

Nice looking copper pour, llight sweet aroma. Sweet, candy creamy taste with a bit of spiciness. Interesting, remindful of a good cream soda from my youth, but not something I would seek out again.

Upon the first taste of this beer I realized that this beer taste very much like the AV winter soltice. I checked the bottle and sure enough its brewed with spices. I am not opposed to spices and I find this beer to be much better than the AVVWS. Good for a worm day, but the beer does get kind of sweet toward the end.

Dark copper color with a thin head. Very nice aroma of chocolate and orange, with what I think is cardamom. The taste had the orange, but it turned funky. Not quite sour, not quite bitter, but somewhere on that spectrum of not-so-goodness. Decent malt base.

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.

Sampled as part of BJCP training. Note that the first bottle we opened was clearly infected, with a really nasty sourness. Second bottle was from the same sixer and fine. Go figure. Rating from the uninfected sample. Medium amber. Definite sweet corn aroma. Very suagery malt sweetness throughout, no real hops showing up at all to me, despite looking for them. Just too sweet for me.

Thanks to John for this brew a deep ruby red color w/ a small white head well laced but quickly dissapating. smells lightly malty w/ hints of spice yeast and bread dough. Palate is well coated and lightly creamy but a bit thin. Flavor is lightly malty hints of carmel and maybe the base of peanut butter no real hop and not much else. A bit warm but odd for a summer beer. Ok but nothing special. OK re-rate.. this smells and tastes like cocoa puffs

Hazy dark amber, zero head. Fruity pineapple aroma. Sweet malty pineapple and vanilla flavor. A bit watery. Tangy.