Samuel Adams 1790 Root Beer Brew

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Boston, Massachusetts USA

12oz bottle. dark copper color. Unappealing smell, primarily anise. Lots of yeast floating in the glass. herbal flavors, like Jagermeister. Unbalanced herbal finish assaults the palate. I’m trying to finish this, but each sip turns my stomach. I applaud the effort and will try the rest of the brewer/patriot collection, but this one misses the mark.

Bottle drank at Max’s in Baltimore Amber color, no head, light lacing. Nose of sassafrass, wintergreen, no hops or malt. Sweetness is aparent too. A bit barky like cinnamon. The flavor is weird, like drinking cellulose and molasses. Dirty and piney, the finish is sprucy. Odd, not quite like my barqs. Hay and alfalfa!

Interestingly, this is the only one of the "Patriot Pack" that dosen’t reference one of our founding fathers - Perhaps in a effort to keep from slandering one of them? Couldn’t they attribute it to one of our less popular ones? "Bennedict Arnolds Traitor Brew", perhaps? It tastes, by the way, exactly as the label suggest it will - licorice, sassafrass, etc. Actually, The Bride suggested Jagermeister, which may be accurate.

I’m sad to knock this beer, because it is extremely interesting. Unfortunately, it is also extremely disgusting, and near undrinkable. The flavors, spices, and intent all show up in spades. The mint and sassafras are unquestiongly there, and are actually very balanced with each other. Hell, it is all quite balanced. It just so happens that it is purely disgusting. Oh well. I appluad their efforts and am happy to have tried the beer. The ginger is next.

Cloudy copper with tons of yeast floating about. Aroma of, well, root beer. Flavor has notes of black licorice, very sour. Interesting, but I don’t like it.

strong root beer new angland salts and herbs, sassafras licroice aroma. amber beer with stuff floating and short beige head. strong black licorice bark, mint-wintergreen, molasses, honey and vanilla notes all present. tangy palate, semisweet, black syrupy, medicinal. not that I wanted more than half a glass but it was actually somewhat interesting.

OMG get the taste out of my mouth. This is what I was saying when I tasted it. God awful, over powering. What were they thinking. The worst in the fourth of july specialty pack. Horrible

Absolutely horrendous! I tried giving this a couple of tries and it kept getting worse. There isn’t any balance. A chaos of crap swirls throughout your mouth and infects everything it touches with vile putrid. I can’t say anything good about this waste of time and taste. Over powering Licorice. Poured it out. 100% offensive.