Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

Pours blood orange into a tumbler. Bright off-white head with excellent retention. Sweet and sour cranberry aromas. Heavy use of wheat causes strawberry and cranberry muffin-like flavors. A bit flat and cloying – not sour or bitter or interesting in any way. Chapeau-like.

Pours gold with a reddish tinge. Aroma is mostly malty with just a tiny tiny hint of funk. Flavor is decent but lacks lambic characteristics. Virtually zero sourness. This is a beer that doesn’t know what it is trying to be. However, NOT as bad as people have led me to believe.

12 oz bottle into shaker. Pours a Reddish pinkish light brownish color, clear, small carb bubbles, big creamy nice dirty light pink head that leaves good lace. Aroma is weird, mostly wheat with a bit of sour cranberry to it, some clove, orange peal, coriander – but a generally weird acidic almost chemically bitter sourness to it (NOT like a traditional lambic sourness). Flavor is… bad. Very confused – creamy cereal, very wheaty, sweet syrupy bitter cranberry. Actually very nice on the palate, but hard to enjoy its body with that flavor – practically full bodied, medium to light carbonation, and a smooth texture. Overall: this isn’t a lambic. Its getting tolerable the more I drink, but there is no way I could drink more than one of these things in a night. It came in the SA winter mixed 12 pack.

Fizzy reddish pink body with light fizzy white carbonation. Heavy cranberry sauce aroma, wheaty notes. Body is pretty weighty despite the appearance. Tart cranberries, slightly medicinal and metallic bite. Can’t find any maple syrup.

Sour wheat and floral cranberry nose. amber color w/deep pink hue, small soapy head. Sugary fruit tart sweetness with biscuit, mild bitterness. Mild carbonation, thinner body with a wine-like finish. Decent beer mild Lambic-style, and a great ’’gateway’’ beer to bridge someone into the world of sour beers

12oz bottle. Kind of putrid looking, but its what i would expect. German hef aroma with a hint of cranberry and sugary icing. Sweet, low bitterness with some banana, cranberry, spice and a very subtle tartness. This is an odd one, but is actually much more drinkable than I thought. Tastes like more of a soft drink than a beer, and this sweetness is getting to me...

Poured into a pint glass. Sickly clear guava/strawberry color with a pinkish-ecru head that fizzles into nothing within a minute. Smells like cran-grape juice and mealy old wheat. Artificial sweet fruitiness that isn’t particularly reminiscent of cranberry. Big maple syrup note that turns cloying. Thin bodied and not tart enough to be called a lambic. Pretty much tastes like carbonated fruit juice. Thumbs down.

The best thing about this beer is its appearance. It pours a hazy blood orange with a thin white head that dissipates quickly. The aroma is sweet/sour and gives way to a very sweet then sour flavor with a very odd, bitter finish. Interesting is the best word for this beer, and it is a unique experience to drink even for a seasoned beer knurd.