Norse Legend
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Sahti Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.72
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This ancient Finnish-style brew dates back to the 1500s as one of the oldest continuously brewed styles. Deep amber in color, this rugged brew’s distinctive aroma and flavor comes from aging on a bed of juniper berries. The herbal, woodsy, and ripe citrus character of the juniper enlivens a sturdy and smooth malt backbone for a fresh and flavorful brew. At Samuel Adams we love experimenting, This series of limited edition brews represents some of our favorite small batch creations.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
1 pt 6 fl oz bottle at Dahlberg. Pours clear and golden amber with a small tan head. Aroma is fruity, light herbal and toasted malty. Bitter, toffee malty and light caramelish. Bitter and herbal. Berry fruity and lingering herbal nto the fnish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2012
at 19:21
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@SBWF2012. Deep red colour, small slightly off-white head. Aroma is spices, glue, syrup and some herbal notes. Flavour is quite similar. Decent brew, but anyone claiming this one is a sahti or even in someway trying to claim it’s a sahti’ish drink should be shot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2012
at 00:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ SBWF’12
Pours dark amber red with a foamy head. Aroma of bready malts, grain, spices and syrup. Taste is sweet and malty with notes of spices and bread. Finish is sweet and syrupy with grainy notes. Not even close to a real sahti.
Pours dark amber red with a foamy head. Aroma of bready malts, grain, spices and syrup. Taste is sweet and malty with notes of spices and bread. Finish is sweet and syrupy with grainy notes. Not even close to a real sahti.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2012
at 07:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cool 50cl bottle pours out clear ruby red body supporting a light tan head of foam. The aroma is kind of earthy and gravel like sweetness (?) mixing with perfume counter floral notes, berry like fruitiness and an almost sea salt like sensation. The taste is oddly similar with earthiness, sort of a berry sugary candy note and then moving into a thyme to rosemary like herbaliness. Interesting stuff and a little more bold than the few other Finland brewed Sahti’s I’ve been able to try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2012
at 21:47
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, $5.99 @ Kenwood Liquors. Interesting, slightly tart smell when poured, but it dissipates quickly. Chunky brown body is a little hard to see through, under a bubbly, fizzy head. Taste is nice and different. A little piney at the start, then I can imagine a touch of dry gin character from the juniper. The alcohol starts to get to me, what’d I expect from this oddly Sam-customized bomber? Herbal character stops just short of tasting like a cough drop. I find myself liking it for showing the character of a rare and different style of beer. A good beer for a newbie tasting. Though I’ve had a few homebrews that ended up tasting like this by accident.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2012
at 21:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz bottle. Pours a clear brilliant copper with a medium off-white collapsing head. Aroma is muted doughy bread initially; the juniper berries come out after warming up, imparting a nice deep woods piney smell. I’ve had beers brewed with juniper berries before, but this one is the most junipery by a long shot. Taste is malty sweet and herbal. I wish the malty sweetness was dialed down a little and the juniper even more in your face. Can’t say I love it, but it’s definitely interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2012
at 23:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
tap at Brewhaven festival - Pours clear amber-orange with a light tan head. The aroma is of caramel malt with some mild herbal characteristics. It tastes sweet with herbal and earthy notes and is medium to full bodied. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2012
at 17:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Dark brown color, thick and fluffy tan head, delicate lacing. Aroma of caramel and herbs. Taste is rosemary, oregano, toast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2012
at 14:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
65 cl bottle @ hotel room, Las Vegas
Vertical with DFH Sah’tea
Aroma is rather sweet and malty and brown sugar. Flavour is rather malty and sweet, some brown sugar and spices. Also some hints of alcohol. Way too sweet and sticky and nothing to do with Sahti – even more far from it than DFH version. Combines the malty feeling from German doppelbocks, brown sugar from Belgian Ales and has a slight English feeling.
Vertical with DFH Sah’tea
Aroma is rather sweet and malty and brown sugar. Flavour is rather malty and sweet, some brown sugar and spices. Also some hints of alcohol. Way too sweet and sticky and nothing to do with Sahti – even more far from it than DFH version. Combines the malty feeling from German doppelbocks, brown sugar from Belgian Ales and has a slight English feeling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2012
at 22:51
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From the July 3R6P tasting. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium brown color with a small foamy tan head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was faint bitter cola. The flavor was cola, juniper, wood and pepper. Medium length finish of cola and pepper. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2012
at 12:23