Grateful Harvest Cranberry Ale
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Light reddish-brown. Medium size head. Seems to have more cranberry aroma than flavor. Most of the cranberry taste is in the after taste. Not a bad beer but won’t drink again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:33
6/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance had an auburn colored body with a small white half finger head that lasts throughout most of the beer, faded, spotty lacing.
The smell had cranberry, and there was some allspice in the background.
The taste was sweet, yet tart through the cherries, allspice is more subdued, light hops.
The palate sat about a light to medium, sessionable, sweet dry aftertaste and finish.
Overall, this is good for its style and I would have this again if I could get it again.
The appearance had an auburn colored body with a small white half finger head that lasts throughout most of the beer, faded, spotty lacing.
The smell had cranberry, and there was some allspice in the background.
The taste was sweet, yet tart through the cherries, allspice is more subdued, light hops.
The palate sat about a light to medium, sessionable, sweet dry aftertaste and finish.
Overall, this is good for its style and I would have this again if I could get it again.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2014
at 17:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
$1.75 Bottle, Wine Warehouse, CHO. Pours brownish red with a tiny dusting of a head. Smells of cheap lager, cranberry, grape... almost a champagne smell. Tastes of heavy cranberry, almost candied, but not sweet. Finishes with a strong cheap lager taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2014
at 04:07
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours light brown with off white head. Nose and taste of dusty cranberry, malt and light toast. Lighter medium body. Soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2013
at 22:21
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
clean adn fresh smell but it is a little sterile in nature. good initial sizzle ont he palate. quite strong initial impact. medicinal, gets more nastly as we continue. wants to step on your tongue but does nit. some bittter astringent back of tongue thing in there. not sure if there is any realcranberry taste in thar. darker looking ale but not brown. cloying at times.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2013
at 14:47
3.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle at home. tulip at fridge temp. pours a 1 finger creamy head that doesn’t fade. Looks like burnt plums in the body. candied cranberry fake syrupy taste. tart on the nose. semi-sweet. Taste is very sweet up front, tart and dry at the finish. Middle is like cough syrup.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2012
at 15:50
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
shared at Tampa Wkly @Madhouse-12 oz bottle-disappearing offwhite-red. A-cranberry, lt spice. T-herbal/spice hop bitter, cranberry, lt malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2012
at 07:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle. Pours a deep copper color topped by a fluffy beige head. Aroma of toasted malt and sour fruit. Upfront, flavor is toasted malt and bitter fruit. Definately tastes of fresh cranberries, which are tart and bitter. Overall, a rather unusual paring of malt, hops and cranberries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2012
at 19:56
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 3/19/12
Aroma: It has something cranberry-like that isn't exactly cranberry and something that is very medicinal (Robitussin?), the cranberry Robitussin overpowers anything else that may be present in the nose here...
Appearance: It pours a transparent reddish-amber color with a small off-white head and no lace
Flavor: The taste, much like the nose, is a rather unusual combination of sweet and medicinal
Palate: Light bodied, with average-to-soft carbonation, a cloying stickiness, and an unpleasant finish
Overall Impression: I'm sure this stuff would have made for great medicine in Chris Rock's house, but as beer it didn't work at all. No 'Mo Tussin Beer, and since I don't have anything else to say about this one:
"l broke my leg, Daddy poured Robitussin on it. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone. lt's good. If you run out of 'tussin, put some water in the jar, shake it up, MO 'TUSSIN!"
Aroma: It has something cranberry-like that isn't exactly cranberry and something that is very medicinal (Robitussin?), the cranberry Robitussin overpowers anything else that may be present in the nose here...
Appearance: It pours a transparent reddish-amber color with a small off-white head and no lace
Flavor: The taste, much like the nose, is a rather unusual combination of sweet and medicinal
Palate: Light bodied, with average-to-soft carbonation, a cloying stickiness, and an unpleasant finish
Overall Impression: I'm sure this stuff would have made for great medicine in Chris Rock's house, but as beer it didn't work at all. No 'Mo Tussin Beer, and since I don't have anything else to say about this one:
"l broke my leg, Daddy poured Robitussin on it. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone. lt's good. If you run out of 'tussin, put some water in the jar, shake it up, MO 'TUSSIN!"
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2012
at 16:54