Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear crimson red with minimal crown. Aroma is reminiscent of a hint of wheat malt, some yeast, but predominantly comprised of cranberries. Flavour is bitter from the beginning - the cranberries are featured up front and don’t fade, even after the taste is over. Spritely carbonation makes this taste like a cranberry soda, since there is a good bit of sweetness in this light-bodied beer. The finish is crisp and bitter, but does leave a hint of yeast on the palate with a good helping of cranberries. Mouthfeel is a bit oily for me, though it is very likable. Definitely a beer that deifies common conceptions of what a beer can be. Someone who does not like traditional beers should try this.

I really liked this beer. It is a good chhristmas time drink. Has a nice but not to strong cranberry taste to it.

Bottle. Poured a clear red with a tan head. Aroma of cranberry. Flavor was very fruity. Would have appreciated a little balance here.

Pours a ruby red color with an off white head. Aroma is lots of sour cranberries and thats about it. Flavor was just sickley cranberry flavor,a nd definately not good or not a lambic.

355 ml bottle. Amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of artificial fruit. Flavor is sweet with a rather weak fruit flavor and not particular sour either. A bit weird.

Not a good representation of what a Lambic is. It’s not sour or funky enough. Lousy Cranberry flavor too. I can finish this but just barely - it’s on the very bottom rung of drinkability.

With apologies to those who see fruit in beer as a sacrilege and those with a particular hatred for this one. I get two of these every year from a friend’s winter variety pack and they are tolerable enough..

I’ve enjoyed lambics but this one is terrible. I have yet to find anyone that will finish a bottle. Too much like cough syrup. Poured mine out.