Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can. Cloudy, medium gold in color. Guess I expected it to be pink since it has cranberries in it but it’s not. Aroma is mostly fruity with just a small hint of spice. Taste was like fruit, grains, hay and a tad of spice. Sweet upfront with a slight tart finish.

Very much a lot of things. Good things. But a lot of them.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12 oz bottle. While my favor falls on big malty beers for Christmas, let’s realize you’ll have some guests at the party who will just want something light. I have had little love for Leinenkugel’s light product like Honey Weiss and various Shandies, but a Cranberry Ginger Shandy seems like something you might keep around if required (and I do like their all-malt beers like the flagship lager and Dunkel Weiss). So I picked this up from a "Mix a 6" rack to try. The smell does have fruity and spice component, like a Canada Dry Ginger Ale. The beer in the glass is hazy gold, with a bit of pink to it, and a thin layer of foam. The taste shows honey at first, a bit of fruit, and then a definite burn from fresh ginger. The beer also seems to stray kind of far from a "shandy." It seems to have been brewed with the fruit and ginger in the boil, instead of being added to dilute it. The abv is 4.2%, which is a sessionable, but still a full strength beer. And the alcohol does hang in as part of the aftertaste. There also seems to be a bit of saccarine at the end, though. Still, it’s a bit more complex than a Mike Hard lemonade. So, as I suggested, you have a guest that would appreciate something light and fruity.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

12oz bottle someone left at my house. Because that’s what you do when someone leaves a crappy shandy at your house, you pawn off all but one and tick the last one. Pours a clear amber with frothy, off white head. Nose, yeah, it has cranberry, but really just some muddled berry, cheap malt, not much else. Flavor has the same, the cranberry is more distinct here - but not in an authentic way, cheap malt, some candy, perhaps some crystallized ginger. Finishes too spritzy. Just not good.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into a glass. Hazy orange with medium/small white head. Aroma is ginger with a little cranberry, medium body, medium carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is ginger and some cranberry.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can - pours orange - nose/taste of ginger, light cranberry sweetness and lemon. A bit soapy - lighter medium bodied

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 2/29/2016. Pours lightly hazy golden orange color with a 2 finger fairly dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lightly tart cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, light clove, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester notes; with good strength. Taste of lightly tart cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, light clove, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal bitterness/yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, crisp, fairly creamy/bready, and slightly acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.2%. Overall this is a very good shandy style. All around good robustness and balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester flavors; and very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle thanks to Ben. Pours a cloudy orange copper with small white head that lasts. The aroma is strong berry, cereal, wheat. Thin mouth, wheat, boo berry cereal, light tart finish, ok.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy orange pour, head of foam good with the nitro mix.

Lightish smell of ginger and cranberries.

Cranberry and ginger taste brings sweet and tart notes. Good mouthfeel and very easy drinking. I am enjoying it.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Fantastic orange, ginger, pine, bubble gum nose. Hazy amber, medium yellowish head. Cranberry and ginger turning to strong wheat malt and bubble gum. Medium body, easy carbonation. This is actually good, really, really good. It may not be "cool" to say so, but Leinenkugel’s makes some really neat beers. This is one of them.