Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

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

I really enjoy Sam Adams fruit beers, this beer like the name implies tastes like cranberries.

Got this in a sam adams sampler. Aroma exposes the sweatness. But at first it isn’t apparent in the taste. Strange yeast and sour taste come first, then sticky sweetness in the back of your mouth towards the end.

Aroma is somewhat sweet with some qualities of caramel and maple syrup. Somewhat yeasty. Color is tan with a white, fine head. Flavor is mildly tart with a weirdly plastic, sweet flavor. Mouth flavor isn’t anything great. Pretty disappointing.

Pours a clear lightly reddish gold with a loose, frothy, pinkish beige head that laces nicely. Lightly funky and fruity on the nose with little more going on here. Light-bodied and creamy with a quick, tart & dry finish. Sweet, tart cranberry front with notes of spice and some funky yeast. A decent beer, but it’s not nearly as good as the true fruited lambics that I’ve tried.

Slight chill haze in the reddish orange body. Thin white head. Nose is plastic and wheat, some undefined berry sweetness. Similar to my homebrew berliner weiss (sans berry) when racking to secondary if you added some syrup. Flavor is cranberry for a second, then nasty plastic. Wheat comes up with blueberries and vanilla. Plastic and fruit syrup in the way too heavy finish. This is a pretty confused beer.

One of the few, if not the only, beer from Sam Adams that I am disappointed with. Pours a pale amber with a thin tan head. Aroma is quite off-putting. Cranberry and malt...that’s okay, but there’s an odor of sourness (sour milk?) that is a turn off. Taste is okay. Cranberries, malt, and honey. But there’s still that sourness. Ugh.

Blah. This was a bad fruit beer. I knew the "lambic" on the label was pushing it, but this was pure blasphemy. Aroma was heavy cranberry and malt. Pour was a hazy light brown with no head. Taste was like puke and cranberry. Had a terrible dusty aftertaste. Pretty nasty.

I have had mostly good things to write about this company lately, as I stumbled upon some decent session brews from their Brewmaster’s Collection (see my reviews is profanity does not bother you)...but, it’s nice to know that I can still bash them when I feel like it, and let me tell you, after taking one sip of this shit I knew it was in dire need of a Beerio review...This shit sucked worse than getting Confirmed into the Catholic Church...in fact, I would rather attend mass than drink this...hell, I would rather become a fucking priest than have to drink this...this actually gave my dog diarrhea.