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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

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unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9282.5/5.02.5/5.0Winter5.9%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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 bb (2905), Martinez, California, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Dec 31, 2007  
Bottle. Pinkish beer with an off-white head. Sweet, tart, light fruit roll-up aroma. Fruit roll-up flavor with some malt. Medium body. Fruit roll-up lingers. Got worse as I drank more.


 blipp (1631), Newark, New Jersey, USA
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/52/102/54/20
Dec 31, 2007    Updated: Jan 11, 2008
Bottle. Appearance: Pink amber, eggshell head. Aroma: Sweet, tart and fruity. Cranberry dominates. Also a little wheaty. Palate: Medium/light. Flavor: Very sweet cranberry. Kind of tart. Was a weird, dairy, almost yogurt like sourness. Overall: I poured half of this beer down the drain. I’m not crazy about cranberry drinks in general. This one was just to much for me. Worst of their winter 12 pack by far.


 MadMan (497), Tempe, Arizona, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/59/20
Dec 31, 2007  
Bottle, from winter mixer. Pours a mostly clear gold to amber with medium diminishing white head. Aroma is awfully sweet from candy to genuine fruit with a touch of cranberry and a good dose of wheatiness. Flavor is weirdly sweet and wheaty with a cranberry yogurt overtone leading to a syrupy and lightly tangy short finish. Pretty strange overall and never really any good.


 alobar (1006), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 31, 2007  
Not a true lambic. Orange color with almost no head. Aroma of cranberries, fruits, nutmeg. Sweet taste-lots of fruit and wheat. Lacked the tartness and body of a true lambic.


 jvmiller (532), Bel Air, Maryland, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/52/103/57/20
Dec 31, 2007  
Oh god. This was awful. Sweet jesus. I rarely will not finish a beer, and this one was up there with unfinishable. So syrupy. So gross. Like bad cough medicine. Booo!


 ketchepillar (475), Viña del Mar, Chile
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Dec 31, 2007  
Too sweet; too much like a cranberry b***ch drink. But for that, it was done pretty well I guess.


 Skyview (4007), Papoose Jct., Minnesota, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/513/20
Dec 30, 2007  
Sampled via variety pack and from a 12-oz bottle at Cellar’s Wine & Spirits in St Paul, MN. Pours a semi-clear orange amber brew with a fast dissolving off-white head that dissipates clean. Aroma of tart cranberry and tart berries with a touch of multi-grain malt. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonation with a complex mixture of tart berry, multi-grain and wheat malt and some grassy hops. Finish is slightly tart and bitter but nothing even close to the Belgian lambics.


 beerlord (215), tonawanda, New York, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 30, 2007  
Sour fruit aroma from a cloudy medium ruby body with no head. Slight sweet/ sour flavor of cranbereries and malt. Not bad, not a lambic by any definition of the style. Mediium mouth feel slightly over carbonated.



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