Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

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.
2.5
1099 reviews
Boston, United States

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1.3 It smelled pretty good and looked good as well. I swear, this beer had one of the worst aftertastes I've ever had the misfortune of tasting. Gave me goosebumps and not in a good way. I love Boston Lager and most other Sam Adams offerings but this was atrocious.
2.6 Single bottle. Expected this to be a drain pour, but was pleasantly surprised. Gorgeous appearance and sweet as expected, but less so than other Lambics I’ve had. As expected, the cranberry dominates. The individual parts are better than the whole. Another SA guilty pleasure to go with Cherry Wheat.
2.6 Aged. okay for a cherry beer not something id buy again. Bitter or tart from the cranberries of set the sweetness maybe to much. 12/31/12
2.7 Bottle. Pours a light amber with a small beige head. Slightly sweet aroma of cranberries and light caramel. Sweet but lightly sour flavor of cranberries and light caramel with a hint of earthy hops. Was much more sour the first time I had it but has seemed to get sweeter each subsequent year. An average and alright beer, but far from a lambic.
0.8 I don’t believe in drain pours, so I after a few swallows I gave the rest of my pint to a friend. She liked it, I hated it. Too wine like and I hate wine. Yuck!
1.8 Smells like cranberry and a damp basement. Color is reddish. Taste is similar to drinking cranapple juice when you leave it on the counter overnight. Please drink at your own risk!
3.6 Bottle. Pours a cloudy golden amber color. Fluffy off-white head. Aroma of cranberries, and mixed berries, and yeast and malt. Flavor was tangy cranberry and wheaty malts. Easy on the palate. Touch of everything I expect in a fruit beer.
2.4 red amber with minimal head. it is more of a wheat beer with cranberry flavor than anything else. definitely not a lambic.
3.9 Pours a redish amber color with decent head. Has a slightly sour cranberry taste that goes great with a red-meat meal. A good beer for cold weather.
3.1 A reddish pink color with a solid head that quickly fades. Cranberry aroma. Also smell wheat like from a summer ale. Taste is better than expected. Cranberry taste is not too powerful. Tastes like a summer wheat w/ cranberry. Slightly dry and tart finish. Not bad at all.
1.6 Ugh. Someone gave me these... Bottle to pilsner glass. Pours a cloudy reddish / pinkish color with a sparse white head. Actually, the nose isn’t that bad. Smells like a Belgian sour, however upon taste, it’s really weak / watery and just tastes like sour cranberries. Even if the cranberry flavor was more robust, it just makes the beer seem like it’s skunked. Bad job, Mr. Brewer / Patriot.
2.6 Pours a hazy red-amber with a thin beige head and sweet aroma of cranberries. Tate is very sweet, of cranberries, fruits, and wheat. Not a good tasting beer and one I wouldn’t go for again
2.2 Reddish golden color, smells a bit sour. Tastes like an ok cranberry soda and not really like a beer. Would pass.
2.3 12oz bottle, best before April. So this isn’t an actual lambic? I guess I’ll have to spend a bit more to try my first real one, then. Surprising totally hazy pink/red color, minimal bubbly white head, some bubbles on the glass. Very little lace. This looks like what you might expect a strawberry-banana smoothie to look like. Turns out it tastes like a smoothie, too. Delivers on the fruit aroma, nice sweet cranberry flavor, but not much else here. Pretty tart, some sour. Sharper carbonation. Super-dry, almost chalky texture. It’s not exactly the most drinkable thing, and I wouldn’t describe it as delicious, but it’s interesting and aromatic. Just not very appealing, somehow (it’s taking me a while to get through, after scarfing down an IPA I rated earlier). Maybe it’s the cranberries? 3 oz of this was the perfect amount of this, it was enjoyable 1/4 the way in. 12oz is way too much.
1.8 Paid $2 for this beer at Undun Beer Store in West Lebanon, NH. Gave to my GF and we split it A - No head, Yellow / orange + some hazey cranberry red color S - Smells like wood soaked in cranberry juice. Old / wet wood. T - There’s some cranberry here but it’s not sour at all. No lambic properties really. Some cranberries on the outset. M - Nice carbonation but weak at the end. O - It’s alright. I’d drink it over Bud Light....
2.7 12oz bottle from Binny’s. Pours a murky, amber-orange colored body with a finger-width, fizzy and frothy, beige head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is very yeasty with a good amount of sweet, slightly tart cranberries. Clove spice, maple syrup, wheat, caramel, and phenols. Flavor is similar. Sweet and tart cranberries up front before a maple syrup, caramel maltiness comes in. Some clove spice and wheat before the malts really take over and smooth this out with a bit of a watered down sweetness. The cranberries maintain a good amount of fruitiness towards the end with just a touch of tartness. Finishes smooth, sweet, and lightly tart before leaving a medium lengthy aftertaste. Smooth, medium body and a somewhat lively, moderate carbonation. Overall, an okay beer. The cranberry is present throughout while being more tart up front and sweeter towards the end. The malts are fairly sweet with the maple syrup sticking out just a bit, yet they feel somewhat watered down at points and at the same time offer a decent sweetness and keep this well balanced. This wasn’t really up my alley aroma and flavor-wise, but it drank well and wasn’t harsh or offensive. Eh...
2.1 Bottle- A quickly dissipating head, pours a sort of gross cross of brown with reddish tint. Not very appetizing. Has a faint whiff of cranberry. It tastes of some insipid malt and a sour fruit of some sort. A slight sour taste does not redeem this beer.
1.1 Imagine cranberry sauce unnaturally fermenting in feces, and then you have the flavor of this beer.
0.9 Bottle. I’m not a big fan of lambics, so I probably shouldn’t be rating this beer...however, this beer was very bitter with a faux cranberry flavor. Looked good in the glass though.
2.1 Wheat malt taste with a fake tasting cranberry flavor on top. Just a tip of tart raspberry upon sip, but appeared fake even if it wasn’t.
1.2 aroma, fruity this is the best part, hazy light amber hue, taste, On no, that maple sryup would have been better on waffle, some bitter cranberry type flavor, I found no easy way to drink it,overall, I would drink these first in the Winter Classics and try to get them down, my hope was that Ol fizz was wanting for me!
2.8 Hazy pink/red. Light cranberry, water, mild vanilla, slight funk. Flavor is brief tart cranberry followed by almost a bitter wheat malt flavor. Lingering bitterness and bland wheat. Mild spice. Lots of carbonation. Lightly dry finish. Drinkable, but not overly enjoyable.
2.0 Aroma of cranberry, orange peel and slight pine funk. Pours very hazy blood orange. Tastes of cranberry, other citrus and bread. The danger comes in after you swallow. A very unpleasant rotten fruit funk lingers. I get no lambic mouthpucker or wheat notes. Bad form.
2.3 Aroma is nice. Unfortunately I tried to drink it as well. Tastes like somebody mixed beer with cranberry juice cocktail. I’m usually a big fan of Sam Adams (and lambics), but this was hard to choke down. This gives lambic a bad name.
1.6 Pours cloudy grapefruit red. Aroma is fruity and sweet. Taste is fruity, but quite bland and watery. No finish, now I remember why I have not bought or liked lambic ! Never again for me on this one !
1.7 Pours a hazy red-amber with a thin beige head and sweet aroma of cranberries. Tate is very sweet, of cranberries, fruits, and wheat. Not a good tasting beer and one I wouldn’t go for again
2.4 Very cloudy pinkish dark amber, very little head that doesn’t last much, kinda pink-cream tinted. Smell has some wheat, dull toffee, some wild yeast, and some dried cranberries. Taste is light and sugary, kinda sparkly...not sure how else to describe. Light tart fruit, cranberries thats pretty unobtrusive and forgettable. Light wild yeast funk and sugary sweetness stack up that fruity tone, but the body is pretty light and watery. Just unimpressive.
2.1 Bottle. Ruddy red amber color, little head. The nose is very sweet and acidic, cranberry flavors, I suppose. The taste is sweet, sugary, terse with a somewhat tart finish. The body’s watery and uninteresting. Overall, a beer I really don’t have much feeling for - I couldn’t finish my bottle.
2.9 Bottle @ home, picked picked up at Wilbur’s in Fort Collins as a single. This isn’t in the 12 mixed pack this year, so I’m not sure if they got six packs of it and split it up or what. Incredibly cloudy, pinkish brown appearance with a pinkish cream colored head. Somewhat spicy, maple, light caramel, tart mild cranberry, red fruity aroma. Slightly tart, cranberry, light apple, kind of dull toffee, caramel, maple flavor. I thought I remembered this being a lot more tart but maybe that’s just what I thought it should be. This tastes pretty dull.
2.5 bottle pour. comes out a murky pink/red. decent head and decent lacing. tart aroma with a touch of wheat. creamy on the tounge with some tart cranberry up front. slightly bitter on the finish with a lingering flavor. not the worst beer I’ve had from these folks...