Cranberry Orange Radler
Boulevard Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

Hazy, rosy, this beer is the color of sunset. What a beautiful pour. The bubbly head quickly dissipated, however. It smells pretty nondescript. A little like mild blue moon. As fruity as you would expect from the name. It tastes pretty okay, a little sweet for me, but very drinkable. Feels a little like a soda. Decent summery beer.

Pours a foggy orange with a finger of khaki head that actually retains pretty well. Great lacing left behind. Aroma is orange, and punchy cranberries with light lemon zest and biscuit malts behind. It smells almost like a tame sour. Flavor profile is orange and cranberries, which carry a pleasant, but unmistakable tartness. Biscuit and earth malts form a "beery" base. Mouth feel is a little fizzy, but is otherwise crisp. It has a medium-thin thickness. Overall, lovely notes of orange and cranberry with modest malt notes combine with a crisp feel to keep this drinking super smooth and clean.

Served in a 12oz snifter from a 12oz can.

Poured from a 12 OZ can into a pint glass. The appearance is a semi clear Amber color with a small white head. The aroma is cranberry. The taste follows the nose with some mild hops thrown in.

Cranberry Orange Radler pours a hazy light copper color, with a small, but long lasting head. Big fruity aroma. Flavor hits you with a big orange note, then cranberries, and a bitter finish from the cranberries. Good body and feel. Overall, its a very full radler, big fruit flavors, the sweet and bitter doesn't meld that great.

12 oz. Can
Best By: 02/22/18

Poured into a Trillium glass a pretty nice cloudy pinkish color, pretty nice carbonation, with a pretty nice thick/creamy one-finger plus white head, which leaves some sticky lacing behind. The nose is nice, malty, kinda yeasty, with some nice touch of cranberry/orange, slightly tart. The taste is nice, malty, kinda yeasty, with a nice touch of cranberry/orange. kinda tart, some sweetness. Medium body, ABV hidden very well. Overall, a tasty one.

 

L: hazed dark orange/copper, large creamy one finger head.
N: cranberry tartness and orange upfront, soft wheat, oats, slight salty gose like notes.
T: sweet and tart cranberry and orange, soft oats, wheat, very simple.
B: soft body, medium to well carbonated, thin mouthfeel, good for abv and style.
Overall: a touch too sweet at times, drinks easy and is well done.

Light orange color with soda like bubbles. No head to speak of. Wheat and orange soda aroma. Plenty of orange flavor but cranberry is faint. No hops detected. Very sweet. Soda like feel. Carbonation is relatively short lived. Sticky finish. True to style but only slightly above average and too sweet for my taste.

A rosy orange sunset hue with haze in the appearance and thin white head with fine bead.
Smell is a lot of cranberry and a little orange like cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving
Mouthfeel is tart tangy juicy and Fruity with moderate carbonation and mild sweetness with lingering tart berry
Taste is a great mix of wheat flavor and juicy cranberry with orange complimenting both in a refreshing flavorful yet light tasting and slightly puckering blood orange and cranberry fanciness long after the swallow
Overall a very enjoyable radler with fruit tart taste that is quenching and satisfying

 

 

A: Pours a lightly hazy pinkish burnt orange in color with moderate to heavy amounts of active visible carbonation rising quickly from the bottom of the glass and faint golden yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall sudsy foamy pinkish white head that slowly reduces to a large patch of slightly mottled very thin film covering the majority of the surface of the beer (a little more than 90%) and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Just shy of moderate aromas of slightly sweet orange citrus, slightly sweet cranberry, and slightly sweet grainy malts along with light aromas of lemon citrus and wheat malts.

T: Upfront there is a light to moderate flavor of wheat and grainy malts with a light amount of grainy + simple syrup sweetness. That is followed by moderate flavors of slightly sweet orange citrus and slightly sweet, slightly tart cranberry along with a hint of lemon citrus. No discernible hop presence and minimal amounts of bitterness which fade away almost instantly leaving a light hint of cranberry orange cocktail in the finish.

M: Light bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Slightly thin/watery.

O: Reminds me of Ocean Spray Cran-Orange from my childhood in the 1980s - sweetened cranberry juice mixed with orange. Easy to drink with just enough tartness + sweetness to be balanced and quite refreshing. Enjoyable.

 

I had been meaning to try this one's CANterpart, Ginger Lemon Radler for a while & when I found both of them in CANs, I just knew that I needed to add them to The CANQuest (tm)!

From the CAN: "Kansas City * Since 1989"; "Like our original Ginger Lemon Radler, Cranberry Orange Radler is a bright, uniquely refreshing beer. It's beautifully hazy and slightly pink in color, with sweet blood orange and a hint of cranberry."

I did a little in-CAN agitation before performing the Crack! I then gave it a hard Glug to generate two fingers of pinkish-white head that foamed up & then slowly fizzed back down. Color was a cloudy pinkish-Amber (SRM = N/A). Nose was sweet with orange, but the cranberry gave it a slight tartness, causing it to have a potpourri-like scent in total. The mouthfeel was thin & watery. The taste was like an Ocean Spray juice cocktail - orangey, but mainly cranberry! I remember my maternal grandmother as always having one of their blends on-hand when I was a kid. I really liked the way that this kept the tartness in check with the inCANporation of the blood orange. Finish was semi-dry & I found this one to be MUCH more refreshing than the original. I CAN definitely see this on a hot, humid day following a bike ride.

Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a thin fizzy head. Head retention is non-existent. Lacing is very mild. Can get the orange and cranberry aroma. There is virtually no hops. As expected, cranberry up front with orange on the end. Good flavor but not what I look for in a beer. Light bodied with heavy carbonation.