Hyport Cranberry Ale

Formerly brewed at Hyport Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Hyannis, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Okay, I guess I am having some guilty nostalgia over this one. Sure it tastes like a wine cooler, but I grew up on a cranberry bog. Other than my longing for home, this beer shows nothing.

I would be surprised if I drank this blind and then someone told me it was beer. This is a mockery of fruit beer. It’s all sweet cranberry flavoring. I can understand that the brewery needs to make a beer that will sell, so I can’t really fault them too much for making it, but unfortunately, I gotta be honest on my ratings, this dosent taste like beer.

Sample at the Brewpub: Light pink color with no head. This smells very much of cranberry and has a sweetness to it like soda. Surprisingly, the carbonation is light, which is the only good part about this beer. Flavor has nothing but tart cranberry and a sugar-like sweetness. If you gave me a blind taste of this, I couldn’t even tell you it was beer. Basically tastes like drinking carbonated cranberry juice with some small amount of alcohol. I would guess this is aimed at competing with the malt beverage market, which it would do quite well for the brewery.

One of my best sellling micros! i stock the shelves every other day. its a real pleaser.

5oz sample at the brewpub. Pour is clear pink, no head, very minimal body carbonation. Aroma is pure cranberry, tart, and a little sweet, too. Flavor is all about the cranberry - tart and fruity. Body is medium, somewhat syrupy feeling. Not overly impressed with this, although my wife liked it a bit more than I.