1790 Root Beer Brew
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Rotating Out of Production|
Score
5.06
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The intensity of this unfiltered brew is immediately evident with spicy, herbal notes of sassafras, wintergreen and licorice. These are balanced with the sweetness of caramelized sugar, molasses, and vanilla.
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4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle: Cloudy brown pour with lots of swirling particles and sediment. Medium beige head and plenty of thick lacing. Smells like root beer, but more intense. Taste is strong of herbals and earthiness. The wintergreen and raw spiciness takes over. Dry, herbal, and abrasive. Didn’t have the will to finish this...
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2008
at 10:31
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle, 5.5%. Very perfumy aroma, horse, goat, sassafras? Very flavourful, some liquorice. Slightly salty and sweet. Reminds me of some sort of liquor. Takes some getting used to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2008
at 08:58
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tried
on 19 Dec 2007
at 08:12
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange/brown with little lacing head. Heavy spiced aroma. Ginger like note, very heavy flavour too, slight soapy. Liqourice element. I’m definitely not used to drink root beer and I don’t think I’ll ever learn to appreciate it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2007
at 14:27
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Very cloudy, murky, orangey golden with a creamy, yellowish head. Aroma of bubble gum and root beer spices. Medium body, sweet and salty with licorice notes and a distinct sarsaparilla spiciness. Somewhat astringent finish. 180807
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2007
at 16:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A hazy reddish brown ale with a thick collapsing light moka head, and little yeast floaties. Aroma is quite interesting, with notes of anis, licorice, terpentine and light alcohol. In mouth, a rather sweet coniferous brew, with loads of licorice, and those candy bottle caps I used to buy as a cap...more like a chinotto. Still, very interesting, but not something I would drink everyday.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2007
at 18:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle from UncleMattie! Nose smells like the old fashioned sassafras root beer my neighbors brewed and handbottled in the 1950s; you can smell the sassafras, wintergreen, and licorice; slightly hazy copper with a small beige head; Flavor shows quite a bit of wintergreen, sassafras, and some licorice; like the homemade stuff i had as a kid. Once in a while we would get an "infected" bottle that had fermented the sugar, maybe this is where I started liking dark beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2007
at 21:58
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
bottle - Pours amber with no head and some light, visible carbonation. It smells rather strongly of sassafras. The root beer taste didn’t seem too terrible at first, but the finish is absolutely awful. I really wanted to get the taste out of my mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2007
at 02:20
2.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 0.5
Poured a copper amber with orange hues with a thin sudsy white head that faded quickly. The first wiff of the bottle is great, smells just like A&W but let the beer sit and a faint medicinal odor comes through. The flavor was so bad, I had to spit it out. No kidding. Flat and earthy, but in a bad way. If this is typical of a beer from 1790, I know why my ancestors drank whiskey.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2007
at 17:22
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A hazy amber beer with a fast disappearing beige head. The aroma is sweet with that unmistakable note of root beer - I must admit I didn’t know it was bark from the sassafras tree - but now I do. The flavor is sweet with notes of both citrus and root beer, as well as some fruits, and light notes of wood. I kind of like the spicyness. The end is OK bitter.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2006
at 14:59