 Rynoplasty (500), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Dec 10, 2006 12 ounce bottle from a winter variety pack that I have so come to love. Pours amber with a thin head. The aroma is tart and sweet just like the taste. Although I am normally not a big fan of fruit beers, and it doesn’t taste like a lambic I still really like this beer. Although I would say it is the weakest of the winter varieties, that just tells you how good the rest are.
LagerLove (65), Clinton, Missouri, USA
Dec 9, 2006 Delicious, I really enjoy cranberry and this brew had a very pleasnant taste of lager and cranberry juice, i recomend to ocean spray fans
PilsnerPeter (2598), Flushing, New York, USA
Dec 6, 2006 A clear orange beer with a white film for head. Aroma is yeasty, artificial, with a tart syrup background. Artificial sweetener flavor. Weak and strange tartness. Yes, there’s a hint of supermarket brand cranberry juice, but this is no lambic. Gives me a bad aftertaste which is reminiscent of diet soda/juice.
mbptp301 (11), USA
Dec 5, 2006 A little too fruity in all avenues. Appearance gets my highest mark. I agree with some of the others, this is the weakest member of the Winter Variety Pack.
JohnnyJ (1283), Carlsbad, California, USA
Dec 5, 2006 Pours a clear reddish amber. Aroma is of sweet cranberries (not very good). Flavor is sweet cranberry and a nasty sour taste. Not good at all.
BulletJBT (3), Southside, Alabama, USA
does not count  Dec 3, 2006 Updated: Dec 7, 2006I wanted to like this beer - after all, it was a cranberry beer from McMiniman’s Pubs in Oregon that turned me onto beer.
The aroma is cranberry-ish. The color is a pleasant reddish amber. Those are the only plusses for me.
This is probably the lightest beer by Sam Adams (IMO, not a good thing). I don’t know how to describe it’s taste without getting ugly about it. Probably the best way: I gladly give the four bottles of this that come in the Samuel Adams Holiday Collection to friends - with the disclaimer that if they take one sip and don’t like it, go ahead and pour it out because that is what I would do with it. As someone else said, I really wish Sam Adams would put something else in the Holiday Pack.
jon112981 (327), Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
Dec 2, 2006 Bottle. Light reddish amber. Very strong cranberry taste. Very strong cranberry tart taste. Finish reminds me of a weiss beer.
molassesfan (201), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Dec 1, 2006 Pours a light reddish amber with a medium white head. Aroma of cranberries that fades after awhile. Tastes nothing like a lambic, just like a run of the mill boring "beer" with cranberries added. I wish they would put something else in the holiday pack.
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