Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Color is dark chocolate brown with off white head. Aroma is of malts with ginger and orange. Flavor is gingery with some cinnamon kind of a clean after taste. The mouthfeel is like water.

This ale pours a dark brown color with a heavy brown head. Clear body with no carbonation. Aroma’s of light cinammon and a sweet fruit scent, balanced with a light cookie malt scent. Taste is watery and sweet with a hint of coal. Mouthfeel is chalky yet creamy with medium body.

Bottle. Nose on this is extremely spicy - almost like a mulled wine without the wine parts to the nose. The taste is rather spicy as well, with a bit of bite to it from the spice. Not my style.

Old, old musty aftertaste. Tasted like I was in my great grandma’s house. Yech!

(Best by 3/3) Dejavo. Looks great, but it taste strange. This is just overly sweet and spicy, not much else. I guess Jim Koch believes more (except hops) is better.

The 5th and final loser from the Sam Adams Holiday pack. I’m beginning to think this package was infected. One of my roomates Porters exploded in the fridge, and 3 of my 6 have been absolutely foul, watery messes. There are absolutely no signs of spicing or *anything* interesting in this beer. One of the foulest Sam Adams I’ve had yet, which is very dissappointing because I had this one of my want list even for quite a while. If its infected, I’ll rerate it if I have a chance, but it’s certainly not my fault, so the brewery gets nailed with the bad rating.

Ginger flavor comes through more than anything which I whole-heartedly disagree with. But, it does have n earth flavor which sucks, too. Unfortunately, the flavor is long lasting.

pours with a slight head, with a caramel color, tastes similiar to a regular Sam Adams lager.

Reddish-purple brew, small dissipating, foamy white head. aroma is spicy pears. All-spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, fizzy flavor. The style is unmistakable, unfortunatley I am not of fan of the style. Beer is supposed to have hops, where is the hops?

Ewwwwww... Nice color. Nice smell. Too fruity and weak. Give up Sam. I'm of the opinion that you have to drink at least a 6 of any beer to truly understand it. No way I could make it through 6 of these. Cleve name, though.