Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Pours a bit muddled, no real red color, just cloudy brown. Smells of malt only, no fruit. Taste is straight cranberry- if you like it, you’ll love this beer. I am pretty ’’meh’’ on cranberry, personally. Finish is good, mouthfeel is good. This is a love-it or hate-it beer.

’’fruity’’ taste might be a bit of an understatement. and the wheat undertone is delightful. mildly sour aftertaste.

Pours strawberry tinted amber with a 2 finger white head that lasts onlt a minute or so before fading to a skim that leaves spotted lacing. Aroma Is lots of wheat, lemon grass, cheese, apples, and orange blossom. Flavor is dried cranberries, raisin bran cereal, yeasty cloves and a little wheat and some lemon danish. Finish is wheaty and lemon, short and sweet. Overall-not as offessive as the rating suggests, but really lacking in strength, and body.

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.