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Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
14
overall
Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9272.5/5.02.5/5.0Winter5.9%31.9Flute
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Commercial Description:
Samuel Adams® Cranberry Lambic is a fruit beer that draws its flavor not just from the cranberries it is brewed with, but also from the unique fermentation character imparted by the rare wild yeast strain. The result is a flavor rich in fruitiness and reminiscent of cranberries and bananas, cloves and nutmeg. The yeast fermentation also will create a slight sourness on the sides of the palate, a signature of the original Lambic style which, with the subtle cereal note from the wheat malt, remind its drinker that, as fruity a beer as this is, it is still a beer.
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greenleaf (90), Florida, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/102/55/20
May 4, 2008  
12oz bottle. This beer would take some getting used to. WHile it is a lambic and very far out of the american range of beers, it can not compare to its belgium brothers and sister. Overall, a boo.


mclovin80 (11), Buffalo, New York, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/52/103/53/20
Apr 27, 2008  
It’s full of flavor, but I just simply didn’t like the flavor. Very sour. Worst of the bunch in the winter pack.


 obguthr (986), Poquoson, Virginia, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/510/20
Apr 23, 2008  
Yeasty apple and banana nose. Clear amber with a thick billowy white head. Tastefully sour with a sweet kiss of applecore. Subdued cilantro finish. Watery cider, poor lambic.


 Ungstrup (14754), Frederiksberg, Denmark
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/58/20
Apr 22, 2008  
Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with primary notes of cranberries, but also a light acidity. The flavor is sweet combined with hints of acidity and notes of dusty hops and cranberries. Far from a lambic.


 BlackDonald (1127), Boise, Idaho, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/102/52/20
Apr 21, 2008  
Oh god this was horrid. Not even close to being a lambic. It has that flavor like someone drop a fizzy alka seltzer tablet in my club soda. One’e for bladder infections, one’s for getting drunk, I don’t want to be standing in my kitchen during the hockey playoffs tasting cranberry.


 mountainforest (111), Edinburgh, Scotland
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/51/105/53/20
Apr 16, 2008  
As much as I like Samuel Adams and the city it represents, this hard cranberry drink is terrible. Cranberries are cool, beer is cool... but not together. I still have the aftertaste in my mouth, four years later. Only got because it was in a holiday variety pack.


 MesandSim (5790), London, Greater London, England
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/51/102/54/20
Apr 11, 2008  
A Mes rate: Bottle at Tom’s UGT Pt. 2.My god this was awful. Rather univiting cloudy light brown and it gets worse from there. Really nasty pukey sweet caramel. I couldn’t smell it without feeling like I was going to gip. Undrinkable.


 changeup45 (782), Orlando, Florida, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/58/20
Apr 8, 2008    Updated: Sep 9, 2008
This was part of a variety pack I recently purchased. Interesting but nothing I’d really look forward to trying again. Copper color topped with a small head. Malty, berry aroma. Just a little bit of lace forms on the glass. This is too much like soda water for me and quite sour. I guess that’s the cranberries I’m tasting. Not much else to it.



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