Orange Soda
Evil Twin Brewing

 

 

The beer aims to be an orange soda and it delivers on this goal. Its appearance is definitely orange with no real retained lacing. Smell is the weakest part, and really seems to be similar to an artificial soda. Taste: this is an orange soda and barely qualifies (on its taste at least) as an ale. Mouthfeel is sticky sweet with light carbonation. Overall, this ale overshoots the mark, seeming so similar to orange soda that the utility of drinking an ale mimicking it so closely is unclear. A fun novelty but almost impossible to imagine having more than once.

 

“SOUR ALE WITH MILK SUGAR AND ORANGE SYRUP WITH NATURAL FLAVORS AND CERTIFIED COLORS” is not an accurate description. It tasted like sugar and orange syrup, with maybe a splash of sour ale. I like sours and beer with orange is always great, but this was too much and a straight novelty. I could not make it through the first one. Not my cup of tea.

This is a short review because Orange didn't have a subtle blend of flavors, multiple varieties of hops, or remind you of nuts/berries/pine needles.
Orange simply tries to replicate the orange Nehi, Fanta, and Crush you grew up with.
It comes pretty close to hitting the mark. The bright orange color is there, along with a quickly dissolving light orange head.
The aroma just misses. Instead the bright orange scent you have the smell of slightly overripe oranges.
The feel is there with soda levels of carbonation, a slightly sticky finish, and a sweetish aftertaste.
The taste is where it falls short because it is a little too sweet. Instead of tasting like an orange soda it tastes like a melted orange popsicle.
Orange is a great choice for when your friends “don't like beer”, but you don't want to serve a hard seltzer and, at 5% ABV you could almost drink it like a soda

From the bottom of the can: "08/24/21 10:53"

Appearance: The beer is a bright pinkish-orange color and is mostly opaque. It has a medium-sized head that is foamy textured and pink in color. It has alright retention, fading visibly in the glass but keeping a cap. No lacing.

Aroma: It smells a bit like blood orange and grapefruit mixed together.

Taste: A sweet tasting blood orange flavor comes through up front. Towards the middle there is even more sweetness and it joins a wheat flavor which is pleasant. Not much at the back of the palate, but there is a sweet orange aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: It is medium-full bodied and it just feels thick on the palate in general. Carbonation feels low when compared to the weight of the body.

Overall: The label states that this is a "SOUR ALE WITH MILK SUGAR AND ORANGE SYRUP WITH NATURAL FLAVORS AND CERTIFIED COLORS." The orange flavor and the sweetness from the milk sugar definitely both come through. The beer does feel a bit heavy and carbonation feels unbalanced for the beer, but it certainly delivers on the "ORANGE" title printed on the label. It is a kind of neat novelty beer but it wouldn't be something I would pick up regularly. It might be interesting to try if a person loved orange soda or sweet orange sorbet, but I wouldn't recommend it to the average person.

so weird, this is on the edge of not even being beer, orange syrup, natural flavors, certified colors? what even is that? this is straight up orange fanta. im sure it starts as a decent but simple kettle sour, nothing remarkable about it at all, then its turned into the soda thing, orange coloring, a melted popsicle flavor, lactose for sure. it looks pretty close to orange soda in the glass, smells like fruit gummy snacks, orange candy, and just a little clean citrusy bacterial souring, but most of the beer elements are covered up in this, nothing from grain or hops at all, which is true in the taste too. the orange is natural at all, which makes the soda theme more real, but it makes it hard to want to drink more than a few ounces of this, good and honest to the soda thing as it really is. good carbonation, sparkling, which makes the residual sugar less intense, still a marshmallow taste to it. its hard to explain because its weird but good, gimmicky but not necessarily cheap, i dont really like it, but i respect it, i guess, but this isnt the cutting edge of evil twin that draws me to them so much. that said, im definitely keen to try the others in the series out of curiosity, saw there is at least a grape and a cola, if not others, even if i only want a couple sips, its intriguing. they did a good job of making this beer taste like soda, if thats the kind of thing you are into. i respect the effort and the execution both.

 

 

If wine has their spritzers, why can't beer have their beer sodas? In what could be BeerAdvocate's shortest beer review ever, Evil Twin puts out an orange beer that will likely be seen as an abomination to many.

Orange looks, ...well... orange with a spritzy, fizzy cap. Short in stature, the beer is easily mistaken for orange sodas. Its aromas do nothing to thwart such assumptions as its nose is of candied and cream orange. Sugary and sweet to taste, the beer's spot-on Orange Crush flavors are unmistakable.

Nothing really changes from the initial sip through the middle palate and onward to finish. A slight tilt toward tartness and a hint of dryness is all that separates Orange the beer from any other generic orange soda.

Medium bodied, sugary and actually quite refreshing, there's a brightness in finish that takes the attention away from the sugary pop sweetness that would otherwise plague the finish. With no real sense of alcohol or malt structures to describe, this review could have started and ended with one word: "orange". Although there's nothing beer-like to taste, it's also undeniable that its quite tasty, just not what's needed when wanting a beer.

Not a beer I would buy again however, it does tastes like orange soda. A little too sweet and sugary but, I don’t drink soda so I guess that’s how soda is suppose to taste. Tastes what it was meant to taste.