Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat

While I don’t mind some cherries in my beer (see Ommegang Three Philosophers, great stuff), but this beer is ALL cherries. No balance what-so-ever. I had to try really hard to pick up anything other than cherry. I just cannot give this any sort of respectable score due to the complete lack of balance. I did drink it from a bottle, so can’t really comment on appearance or aroma. In fact, the only reason I drank it at all was because my friend took two sips of his and was about to pour it down the drain, but I couldn’t let it go to waste. Prolly shoulda let him pour it out...

One of my favorites. Aroma is sweet cherry with barley. Flavor is wheat with a nice cherry aftertaste. Smooth palate. Overall a Nice beer!

Mixpack bottles: Very cherry! The aroma is great but the flaver has too much cherry taste. It reminds me of a cherry Coke or more like a Sprite since there is so little beer taste. I can home brew a better cherry beer myself that still tastes like beer. I can see this appealing more to women who prefer wine coolers so I see why this beer will have mixed reviews. Clear gold with white head. Bittering and carbonation are fine but still over powered by cherry when swallering.

First time I had the Cherry Wheat was at the Food and Wine Expo at Expot Center a few years back. By the time I had the Cherry Wheat, I was already a little sauced, but even then, I thought it was a great beer. The next day, we went back, and the first thing I did was have a Cherry Wheat, while I was completely sober. It was still the best beer I could remember having. I’m not a big fan of fruit beer, but after having this, I’ve been trying others. I don’t agree with the others, I don’t think the cherry is overpowering. It’s clear in the smell and there is a hint of it in the finish, but nothing overpowering.

Cherry drowns everything else out. Cherry aroma, cherry taste. Pours golden, small white head, little lacing. Some malt in there, traces of wheat. All in all a little too fruity for me. I’m not a huge fruit beer fan to begin with, this was a little much for me. Probably enjoyable if it’s your thing, but it was a little too fruity and not nearly "beery" enough for my tastes. Somebody else mentioned that this fits well in a Samuel Adams variety pack- I’d agree with that.

This beer screams Cherry! Smells like cherry, tastes liek cherry, everything about this beer is cherry. If you like cherries this is the beer for you. I drank 2 bottles of this and that’s about all I could handle. I don’t think I could drink a six pack fo this beer. Fits in great with the variety 12 pack of Sam Adams.

Awesome cherry aroma, very refreshing summer beer, clear, golden color. I will keep this in my fridge this summer!

Krieks are good, but fruit beers made with cherries never seem to turn out very well. I wouldn’t drink this again. It probably would have been a drinkable - if boring - wheat beer for the summer time, but the stale cherry flavor ruined it for me.