Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic
Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)

Samuel Adams Cranberry LambicSamuel Adams Cranberry Lambic
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From:
Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
5.9%
Score:
63
Avg:
2.67 | pDev: 28.09%
Reviews:
841
Ratings:
1,395
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 01, 2024
Added:
Nov 01, 2001
Wants:
  21
Gots:
  53
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Ratings by mrasskicktastic:
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Reviewed by mrasskicktastic from New Jersey

1.4/5  rDev -47.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 1
A - Hazy rose tinted golden amber with a small head and specks of thin lacing all over the glass.

S - Okay, this smells like something else, no cranberries, no maple syrup, no beer. It was bothering the hell out of me, but it is pickled beets! I am so happy that I finally realized what it was. However, that is a terrible odor for a beer to have! There is a faint bit of malt underneath.

T - Taste is better than the smell, but that doesn't say much. There is a bit of sweet cranberries in the foretaste as well as . . . pickled beets. The aftertaste is slightly malty with a bit of lingering tartness from the cranberries. I can picture worse, but that's very, very hard. The aftertaste is okay, but the foretaste makes me want to vomit.

M - Thin, refreshing, smooth. Presuming you can separate it from the taste.

D - I actually like both cranberries and pickled beets, but I don't like pickled beet odor or taste in my beer. Maybe I'd be more forgiving if it was labelled as pickled beet beer. Due to the mouthfeel, and the fact that I can choose not to smell it, it is slightly drinkable. I really wanted to like this beer too. I will never have it again.

Edit 10/06/06: Due to the continued fact that I shudder involuntarily whenever some mentions this beer in any context, I have lowered the drinkability to the absolute lowest notch. This beer truly makes me wish that the numbers could go below awful. I have nightmares about this "cranberry lambic."
Jan 13, 2006
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Reviewed by LeRose from Massachusetts

2.14/5  rDev -19.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Reviewed from notes. This is one of the worst beers I have ever had. It has no resemblance to a traditional lambic and can't be construed as "stretching" the style boundaries.

Looks are decent enough - a slightly reddish, golden color. Lively carbonation to the eye.

The aroma is a muddle of wheat bread, vague fruit notes, medicinal, a little yeasty. It is not fresh or inviting in the smell.

The taste falls far short of expectation. The base beer seemed off somehow, and the cranberry flavor seems artificial and medicinal. Some sweetness, some tart from the cranberry, but it is pretty much a muddle of indistinguishable and unremarkable flavors.

The feel - this looked pleasantly carbonated, but it is quite bloating and very harsh on the tongue. Some of the sting is cranberry, but it seems to be carbonated with very small bubbles that become uncomfortable.

Overall, this is a poor representation of a lambic and is generally a poorly constructed beer against what sounds like a good concept - good idea, bad execution?
Feb 13, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by Noelito76 from New York

Jan 25, 2017
 
Rated: 3.52 by 1mrbeer from Ohio

Dec 30, 2016
 
Rated: 1.66 by DavidST from Texas

Dec 19, 2016
 
Rated: 2.9 by Benjolovesbeer from Michigan

Dec 15, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

1.83/5  rDev -31.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
Quite the abomination to what could be considered a lambic. Right up there with some super failed homebrew attempts at lambic.

Did you want a cranberry vodka? Because thats you get when you order a cranberry lambic. The aroma is wheat-esque.

Taste is nothing like a lambic. This is a bad beer by any standard, but damn if you didn't call it a lambic. They just dumped a bunch of cranberry juice into a wheat beer. Homebrew surprise all over this one. good for nothing. Acidic, I'd rather drink juice.
Oct 03, 2016
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