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Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

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14
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bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
9402.5/5.02.5/5.0Winter5.9%31.6Flute
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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 Ungstrup (15041), 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 (5802), 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 (788), 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.


 Zinister (1199), Houston, Texas, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/102/58/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Foam Rangers tasting. Gold color with small white head. Aroma of sugared cranberries and malt. Flavor is weakened cranberries and weak beer. Ugh.


 M0RHI (1067), Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Mar 31, 2008  
Bottle at Magic_dave6’s disco dance tasting. Hazy golden yellow, thin white head. Nose is sweet cranberry, sugary mouth, sweet and yeasty. Some raspberry and cranberry ocean spray. Sweet, some yeasty wood. Totally rubbish.


 padrefan98 (788), (San Diego) Santee, California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Mar 31, 2008  
Sample tasted at "Spring in the new year with brett" at fordests house. Who brought this? I would drink it if there was nothing else decent in the store.



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