Samuel Adams 1790 Root Beer Brew

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Nice light tan, with a big foamy yellow-ish head. The aroma is definatly sassafras maybe some black licorice. Very much like root beer, so far. Although it is definatly unfiltered. What a bizarar flavor. The licorice sure comes out, hard to note any hop or malt. Definatly not an every day beer, but very creative.

I am not a fan of Licorice, that is all I tasted. Amber color with white head.

Cold 12oz bottle: Pours a murky, dark orange color with minor ivory bubbles around edges. Aroma is predominantly of licorice, which makes me more than hesitant to try it. I’ll let Volgon go first... :) Okay, here I go (1-2-3) ...Blech! The taste is acidic and tart, with licorice and....I’m all set.

Bottle: Cloudy orange with a thin white head, huge licorice aroma with some mint and earth. Starts and ends very sweet, light bodied with a fizzy mouthfeel. The beer is overwhelming to say the least. I’m really glad that I wasn’t alive 200 years ago.

Hazy amber hue, with a small beige head, with some chunks of lees swirling around, nice strong nose of medicinal herbs, sassafras tree roots, wintergreen, spicy licorise, coniferous and pines notes, with a malty aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a strong sweet malty sassafras roots character, with some medicinal herbs, molasses, honey, licorice, spinet, caramelized malt, hint of menthol, spruce roots,wintergreen, leading towards a malty, sprucy finish.

Bottle. Pours solid copper with a tiny amount of floaties, I hope. . .anyway. Nice little white head. Aroma is of root beer, very strong on the wintergreen. It almost reminds me of a visit to the doctor’s office. yeah, tastes like root beer with tons of licorice and wintergreen. The finish is a little weird and slightly plastic, it hints strongly at bubblegum. I wouldn’t willingly consume this on a regular basis.

Whoa! The first sip is a duzy! Pours a cloudy orangeish brownish [not brown like a root beer I’ve ever known] amber with some whitish floaties that sink to the bottom and hover just at or above the bottom. Virtually no head, with no lacing. Largish carbonation bubbles flying about [more than I’ve seen before] {not like a cream stout] Strong vanilla spicy aroma. Kinda thin, but with all the tastes listed on the bottle, even the wintergreen. Not too root-beer ish. I knew this was going to be different, and i tried to psych up for this, but mmmmm probably wont get this again, but I’ll commend anyone either trying to do something different, or going for some history, and i guess this does both. strange aftertaste

alright, this is beer is interesting on one hand, horrible on the other. I think back in 1790, if this was a choice at the local brewery/pub, I would have opted for a porter in a second. The aroma is of heavy licorice, and I mean heavy. Taste is heavily spiced and extremely sweet, cloying is an understatement. I think this is unfortunately going to be a drain pour.