Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

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

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass The color is a deep red with a slight tint of orange. Somewhat cloudy with a white head. The smell is of cranberry, very fruity. The taste is also fruity, very strong cranberry taste , and has a slight hop taste in the background as well. This is an easy to drink beer. It’s cranberry flavor is strong but if you can hadle it this beer is an easy drinking seasonal beer. I was willing to give this beer one more try since I’m always trying to be open to a new good beer. I have poured this out in the past since the tast of cran is strong. I was not totally turned off by this beer and did end up enjoying it. I would suggest pairing it will a good turkey or chicken meal with some fixings.

Presentation: It was poured from brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Appearance: The body has a hazy appearance with a deep reddish tan, rust color. On top it has a small slightly pinkish white head. The head slowly fades down to a thick ring that hangs on well and leaves some lace on the glass. Smell: The aroma hits you with tart wheat and tart cranberry along with cherry cough syrup, sweet maple syrup and a hint of yeast. Taste/Mouth Feel: The flavor has an odd mix of tangy wheat, tart cranberry, cough syrup, sweet grain, maple syrup, and just a hint of some yeast. The finish quickly goes from syrupy sweet to tangy and slightly acidic and then hangs on the tongue. The body is medium to full with a heavy slick and almost sticky texture. Carbonation is delicate and gets lost in the heavy texture. Notes: I actually don’t mind this beer but I have to be in an odd mood and I wouldn’t want to drink too many of these. Also the bottle reads that they use a top fermenting yeast so this is in no way anything close to a real Lambic beer!!!

I might be giving this beer to much credit. Reddish in color, taste of fruit syrup.

This is not a lambic at all but overall its an OK beer. Cranberry is interesting flavor, its no cherry wheat but its ok in a seasonal pack once a year.

This was weird. It tasted nothing like a lambic. This seemed more like generic brand cranberry juice cocktail spiked with a bit of wheat beer. Not my thing.

This beer came as part of a Holiday Sampler from Sam Adams. The ratings say it all. This beer wasn’t good, but I finished it...

Bottle. Pours an amber beer with an off white head. Some light acidic cranberry and lemon. This was pretty bad even for a fruit beer, maybe SA should stick to their lagers.