Merry Maker
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.14
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iphonephan (11575) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From a 22 oz bottle shared at home. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Flavors of ginger bread. Smooth, oily mouthfeel. Sweet finish.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22oz bomber. Drinking it in Summer of 2014, probably bottled last winter. Deep brown-black body. Creamy beige head. The flavors bring me right back to Winter. Rich creamy, warm chocolate tones. Pumpkin pie spices..in the sense that if you told me this was an Imperial Pumpkin Porter I wouldn’t question it. Pretty nice, well exceeding my expectations.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
22oz bottle picked up at Discount Liquor in Evanston
Pours almost black with a medium sized dark tan head and good lacing. Aroma is gingerbread, spices, dark malts and nutmeg. The taste is dark malts, cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate and spice
Very nice. This is like gingerbread in a glass. I’m not usually a fan of this kind of beer, but this is good.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The appearance had a dark black colored body yielding a beautiful two finger dark tan head that lasts for at least a good two minutes. As the head starts to dissipate, some nice spider web lacing appears around the sides of the pint glass. Some rings eventually appear. The body is too dark for any carbonation to be seen rising.
The smell had \"Christmas\" in all sorts of ways with ginger, pumpkin, nutmeg, cloves and allspice all up front giving a nice punch in the nose. Some nice roasted coffee and chocolate come out more so as the beer warms a bit.
The smell takes all of those previously mentioned flavorings and combines very nicely for a bitter/sweet/dry taste that meets a robust sort of taste that meets a bit above the standard for the season.
The palate was a bit heavy, a nice small sipper that will make me satisfied for the rest of the day. It has a fairly smooth dry finish. Though a fairly high ABV, still the alcohol is slightly undetectable.
Overall, this turned out better than I thought it would be, perhaps I was thinking this was going to be a malt bomb, but it still had some nice bitter/dry aspects a good \"stout\" should have. I would say this was good for the style and for me.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Had this as Merry Mischief Gingerbread Stout last time it was out. The bottle pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a mix of dark roasted malts, chocolate, ginger, graham cracker and wintery spiciness. The taste is pretty big and rich with plenty of cinnamon and ginger and nutmeg and cloves to create a wintery cinnamon graham cracker to ginger snap cookie like sensation that rides on top of murmurs of roasted malts, sweet malts and chocolate. Pretty nice.
DSG (25977) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Thanks Alex Shmoo-Shmoo.As Samuel Adams Merry Maker Gingerbread Stout. Black with a thin tan head. Aroma of cookies with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and a bit of chocolate. Sweetish flavor with chocolate, cookies, spices, some roastiness in the background and a bitterish finish. Medium to full-bodied. Decent.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Sampled from a 16.6 oz brown bottle this beer poured thick and black with an enormous fluffy dark brown head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was malty with a bit of vanilla, gingerbread and fruity hops. The flavor was toast and malty with notes of gingerbread, cinnamon, anise, vanilla, port wine and fruity hops. Medium length finish of toasty malts and gingerbread. Medium body and smooth. Decent.
LeninCat (7983) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ home, picked up at Wilbur’s Fort Collins. Pours a deep brown / black appearance with a creamy, big dark brown head. Very spicy - clove, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg - aroma along with some dessert like notes. Caramel / chocolate, a touch sweet, very spicy, cinnamon, vanilla, ginger flavor. Too spicy for my taste but not bad overall.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Merry Maker from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Purchased at Albertsons in Vegas, and now goes under the name "Merry Maker". Pours a real dark brown colour with a frothy beige head, good retention and lots of soapy lacing. Beautiful spices in the nose, with a good gingerbread replica, light cinnamon and some dark fruit notes. Creamy mouthfeel, but on the wet-side with a body that is not as heavy as I expected. Many dark fruits in the taste with molasses. The spices are not as dominant, but still present. Goes down very well, with the alcohol nicely hidden and hardly any warming. A great Christmas brew that works.