Butte Creek Christmas Cranberry Ale

650 mL (22 oz) bomber.

Decent looking light amber/orange pour with some chill haze, good head and some very, very nice sticky lacing. Unfortunately the lacing was the best part of this beer.

There is *something* in the nose other than ‘beer”, but I certainly cannot distinguish it as being cranberry or even fruit.

Some dry bitterness is upfront in the beer, which would be a characteristic of the cranberries, but again, it isn’t really distinguishable *as* cranberry. Tastes like a dry pale ale.

Lots of dry character in the aftertaste and the finish, but simply ordinary in the extreme. Virtually devoid of any hop taste, but there is some drying hop “feel”.

Bit of a disappointment. If you are going to make a fruit beer, I’d like some kind of fruit taste. It’s not really here.

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12/11/2005
Format:
bottle
ABV: ? %
Appearance: 4
Taste: 2
Mouthfeel: 3
Smell: 2.5
Overall: 2
Total: 2.3
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