Cranberry Lambic
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Fruit Rotating Out of Production|
Score
5.23
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Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic is a fruit beer that draws its flavor not just from the cranberries it is brewed with, but also from the unique fermentation character imparted by the rare wild yeast strain. The result is a flavor rich in fruitiness and reminiscent of cranberries and bananas, cloves and nutmeg. The yeast fermentation also will create a slight sourness on the sides of the palate, a signature of the original Lambic style which, with the subtle cereal note from the wheat malt, remind its drinker that, as fruity a beer as this is, it is still a beer.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
Pours hazy amber color with off white head. Malty wheat aroma. Bland wheat flavor With a hint of cranberry and very mild sourness, almost non-existent. Medium body with mild carbonation. Not bad, just not very good.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2008
at 10:54
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
12 ounce bottle courtesy of Alraomon. Thanks! Pours a clear red color with a medium head, decent head retention and good lacing. Aroma is cranberry, cotton candy, cheese and oddly, smoke. Taste is primarily cranberry with that odd meaty smokiness again. Aroma and taste are a tad bit artificial. Weird stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2008
at 03:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours blood orange into a tumbler. Bright off-white head with excellent retention. Sweet and sour cranberry aromas. Heavy use of wheat causes strawberry and cranberry muffin-like flavors. A bit flat and cloying – not sour or bitter or interesting in any way. Chapeau-like.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2008
at 10:26
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
355 ml bottle. Amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of artificial fruit. Flavor is sweet with a rather weak fruit flavor and not particular sour either. A bit weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2008
at 10:38
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle pours out a hazy dark amber topped with an off white head. Aroma of berries. Tast of light sweetness and malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2008
at 22:11
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Yeasty apple and banana nose. Clear amber with a thick billowy white head. Tastefully sour with a sweet kiss of applecore. Subdued cilantro finish. Watery cider, poor lambic.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2008
at 16:22
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with primary notes of cranberries, but also a light acidity. The flavor is sweet combined with hints of acidity and notes of dusty hops and cranberries. Far from a lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2008
at 15:59
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Toms Glasgow tasting 2 ... Hazy amber ... yeasty with alittle fruit in nose ... sweet breadyy ... little malt... no real lambic character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2008
at 04:07
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Not the biggest fan of this beer. Aroma is cranberry and vinegar. Pour yeilds a off-white head with fair lacing. Peachy color. Taste is bitter and a bit strange to my palate. Goes down decently but a bit to harshly carbonated. Okay, but will not be on the lookout for this beer.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2008
at 18:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pinkish beer with an off-white head. Sweet, tart, light fruit roll-up aroma. Fruit roll-up flavor with some malt. Medium body. Fruit roll-up lingers. Got worse as I drank more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2007
at 23:36