Cranberry Special Ale
Pioneer Brewing Company

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear red/copper color with very minimal head. Smell is a fruity funk, not cranberry, per se, but there is a sweetness to it. Taste is sweet and cloying. Way to sweet, grenadine style. This is a pretty poor example of a fruit beer. No cranberry essence, just a jolly rancher style fruitiness that is quite foul. Yuck. Mouthfeel is nasty, drinkabilty is almost nill. Avoid if at all humanly possible.

First time trying this particular beer as I generally don't prefer fruit beers other than pumpkin but wanted to try. Pours out a light copper color with little to no head. Smell is almost non-exsistant. When you first take a drink you can taste a fruit like flavor which is immediately followed by a metallic aftertaste. Not a terrible mouthfeel but nothing noteworthy either. Couldn't drink more than one of these nor would I want to. Save your money and buy something, anything else.

Not too great, but not too bad either. Thin head atop a light coppery body with just a touch of pink too it. Base malts are pleasant, but without much character to them. Cranberry flavor is a little slight and leaves a slightly saccharine aftertaste, but at least not overpowering like the raspberry beers I've tried lately. A stronger hop presence would be interesting. I hope these guys keep working on it.

The second worst beer I have ever had. Poured a clear fizzy color with a slightly red tint. The aroma is very stale. The flavor has some cranberry flavor and what cranberry flavor it does offer is tastes slightly like vomit. The first beer I ever poured out. The only distinguishable flavors in this beer are flavors that were better left untasted. Don't waste your time or even worse anyone else's time by serving this atrocity this holiday season, stick to egg nog.

Light colored beer with a stale fruit aroma. Nothing really distinguishable about this beer. Can't even hardly taste the cranberry much less anything else. I detect the slightest bit of tartness. This beer is not even close to the other cranberry beer that I have tried, SA Cranberry Lambic. Wouldn't recommend this one.

Pours a cloudy golden with a bubbly cream head that retains itself nicely...not much on the nose. I expected to be hit with Cranberry right off the bat, but it is indistinguishable...Some very subtle berry tones, but you really have to strain to smell it.

Taste-wise, there is some Cranberry evident in a very small way. The cranberry doesn't overwhelm or make this extremely bitter. It does have a tart finish as you'd expect. Overall, this is a fruit beer that doesn't go overboard wtih the fruit additive. It is worth a taste, but I couldn't drink a lot of these, and its qualities are not special enough to call it a must drink.