Rebel Raw
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.68
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johnnnniee (7495) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Bert’s Hazy light golden color with a huge frothy white head that persists. Resinous pine dankness on the nose with faint bready maltiness. Sweet bready maltiness with a touch of alcohol and bitter resinous pine hop flavor. Lingering bitterness long after each sip. Somewhat syrupy alcohol burn. A lot better than I expected, but somewhat one dimensional and just a tad too sweet for my tastes.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled from a 16 oz can this beer poured a cloudy copper color with a huge foamy orange-white head that lingered and left a bit of lacing. The aroma was gritty and leafy hops with piney, floral, herbal and almost minty notes. The flavor was bitter and tangy with gritty and leafy floral, herbal and piney hops. Very long hoppy finish. Moderately full bodied. Alcohol well contained. Well done.
McDermottDrink (4593) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Sample pint cans sent for review. The beer’s smell is pretty heavy on hops, mostly with the floral and tropical fruit of exotic hop varietals, and the nose also gives me a fair idea of the alcohol. The malt seems a little light, considering it’s supposed to be backing up a very hoppy brew, but these hops are not especially bitter. It’s more like a basic English IPA recipe that’s been overwhelmed by American pale ale style hops and to my mind it might need a little more bitterness to counteract all the tropical fruit flavor but that’s just me and as we know the Rebel IPA is the brand that the Sam Adams is trying to use to break in to the hoppy beer market after many years of its traditional Boston Lager. It could use some tweaking to make it stand out a little more, now that Boston Beer Co.is trying to stake out a spot among all the other Imperial/Double IPAs.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours hazy deep gold into a Sam glass. White head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Sour melon and hot caramel aromas. Dirty melon and caramel upfront turning to hot overripe summer fruit in the lasting finish.
bookman65 (6047) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a murky, peach-gold, with good-sized, though quickly-dissipating, head. Some pine aroma and fruit, though rather muted. Flavor is pretty bitter, with loads of pine and spruce up front. Lots of booziness. Some tropical fruit. Fairly sweet finish. Could use some more balance.
ben4321 (11522) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
16 oz can. Murky orange with a beige head that leaves heavy lacing on the glass. It’s a pretty nice looking beer, though I can’t say quite as much for the rest of the components. Caramel and grapefruit aroma. Sticky malts and booze come through as well. Mango purée. Rather heavily cloying and boozy on the finish, with a target poor aftertaste. Just feels like beer showing a lack of creativity and virtuosity. Like they took a bunch of popular good and dumped then all in with the hope it would just work. Man, what happened here? The further into the can I get the less drinkable the beer gets. I’m listing off flaws because I can’t quite put my finger on what the problem is, I just know it tastes and feels really flawed. Definitely thinking the mouthfeel, especially through the latter part, is where the midst issues lie, but there are flaws throughout. Nothing about it feels fresh, bright, or juicy. Reminds me of pretty much everything that doesn’t work about pretty much any DIPA I have not enjoyed over the years.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Rebel Raw from Samuel Adams 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Can, from Charles Street Liquors, refrigerator, best before 1/14/16, drunk 12/20/15.
HUGE light-beige head is incredibly lasting, atop an amber-copper body that is indeed quite hazy.
Smells very strongly of pine and white grapefruit. Resin and caramel quickly add to the mix, leaving it very, very heavy-handed and in concert with the 10% abv, there’s little brightness to be garnered. Pretty close to a barleywine here.
Flavor is full of sticky, underattenuated caramelly sugars, and heavy, heavy, heavy pine resin that instantly fatigues the palate.
It’s like someone yelled back at the brewers while they were making this, "HEY, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE HOPS???" And they answered, "JUST DUMP AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AT EVERY POINT!!!"
Absolutely ZERO finesse, charm, or brightness. Sticky, resinous, boozey, intensely astringent and full of heavy caramel. Very little to enjoy here.
Literally made me laugh out loud at the rater who called this similar to Heady Topper. This couldn’t be much farther from Heady Topper or any other good New England IPA if they had tried.
Yeast stink, aspirin, caramel, resin....Sam Adams couldn’t be farther out-of-touch with the true craft brewing scene. A complete fucking joke.