Bugs & Berries

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: Mikkeller
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Special Out of Production

Score

6.39

ABV: 5.7%

IBU: 10

Ticks: 8

Brewed exclusively for the 2016 Copenhagen Beer Celebration in Boston, MA, this one-of-a-kind beer was born from the idea of blending beers made from ingredients from both regions local to the breweries. Bugs and Berries is an American wild ale brewed with a wheat base and wild yeast strains with an addition of sour cherries from Denmark and strawberries from New England. In Denmark, the brewers visited the cherry orchard and wine farm, Frederiksdal Estate, to collect wild yeasts and cherries. In the U.S., the yeasts come from New York, and the strawberries from a variety of strawberry patches in New England.

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6.9

Inbreak (10170) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22.02.2018, 0,75l bottle (2016 vintage) shared with friends @ local tasting:
Small fizzy shortlasting head, nice cloudy light red-orangy color. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, strawberry, sorrel, sour cherries, hay, minerals, grass, alcohol, fruit stones. Taste is slightly harsh sour-ish fruity, weeds, strawberry, fruit stones, alcohol, hay, sour cherries, berry skin, grass. Medium bitterness, harsh fruity mouthfeel. Fair enough.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2018 at 17:14

maniac (11822) ticked Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 8 years ago

Mostly clear amb bod med foam tan head. Berry and citrus arma. Berry, toffee and citrus flav. Med bod mod low carb. 7/3/8/4/15 3.7

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2017 at 18:37

6.6

chrisv10 (24596) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 8 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, 5.6%. Unclear deep red with medium pinkish head. Aroma is malt, cherries, fruit, sour, strawberries and lemon. Flavour is malt, lemon, cherries, medium sweet, little sour, little citric, little fruit sourness, strawberries, yogurt and a little dry.

Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2017 at 12:21

rami-pl (12989) ticked Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 8 years ago

Mowia ze maslanka. Nieprawda, kompot truskawkowy, kwaskowaty na szczescir, dosc malo dziki niestety

Tried at Chmielarnia Marszałkowska on 23 Mar 2017 at 19:06

5.9

AdamChandler (5745) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dark reddish blood color. Smells is like fake fruit, syrup, tart flavor then a lot of graham cracker and fake sugary candy raspberry flavor. tastes like a salad

Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2016 at 17:29

7.5

jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at CBC - pours orange gold white head - nose/taste of strawberry, wine, cherry - medium body

Tried from Draft on 13 Nov 2016 at 23:45

6.1

Mansquito (19100) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Copenhagen Beer and Music Celebration: pours red with ahite head. Aroma is berry and yeast and funk. Taste is berry and sour and some funk. It is fine but not exciting.

Tried on 25 Sep 2016 at 18:11

4.2

CLW (16859) reviewed Bugs & Berries from Samuel Adams 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

4 oz draft, Copenhagen Brewfest, Boston. Dirty Amber color, no head. Aroma is funky yeast, rotten strawberries, sour cherries.

The flavor starts sickly sweet from berry juice and then turns into a bad sour sour finish. Hints of rotten oak. (Even if this wasn’t placed in a barrel) the mouthfeel is odd with a strange yeast presence. This is not good. Sorry Sam Adams, but you can sure try again with another brewery.
br> To be fair I don’t normally like the style

Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2016 at 20:42