Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

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

Lambic or Wheat beer who gives a damn. Either way its not that great. Fair cranberry flavor. Pretty average beer, nothing remarkable.

Bitter, crisp taste, with a nice hint of cranberries. Drank this with my turkey, found it boring after a few sips. Not as sweet and complex as I expected, but it did have a pleasent head and color to it. The aroma was lacking. An O.K. beer.

Definitely has a full bodied orange glow about it, especially when held up to light, preferably a bright light. Quite unique for Sam, is very different from his other fine works. However does discrimination have to engulf our simple minded world? Unfortunately yes, way to simple minded. In any case if Sam wants to make a Cranberry Lambic, well let the man do it. I will not stand in his way, and ill tell you why. Don’t you find it a little strange that a man who’s been “dead” for 200, and yes 200 exactly, give a day or so, even though he “really” died in October of 1803, at the rip age of 82, so tell me how is this man so many years from the past still making great beer? Are we to believe that this “Sam Adams” who was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence, who was a leader of the fight against British colonial rule, who was Governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797 is still alive, and if he is indeed alive, and if he is reading this right now at this very moment, well then I say to you sir, BRAVO

Different but not bad. It feels weird on your tongue but very refreshing.

Poured amber with a slight reddish tint. Cranberry aroma was sweet and tart. Flavor matched the aroma and added a little malt as well. Decent flavor but pretty plain. Like a beer with cranberry flavoring added not too much going on but not bad.

Hazy copper color with a white head. Sweet cranberry and sour lambic aroma. Light, tart cranberry and malt flavors. Overall, not my favorite, but not bad.

Bottle. Pours amber with a slight rosy cast to it, small white head diminishes rapidly. Aroma is sweet and malty, flavor is sweetish with tart fruit, evident hops and a bitter cranberry finish. Light to medium body and fizzy carbonation. Though the name proclaims it as a lambic, I must protest. Decent fruit beer but don’t get your hopes up.

Orange body with off-white head. Very weak in the cranberry aroma and flavor but a refreshing drink nonetheless. Certainly not a lambic in the traditional sense.