Samuel Adams 1790 Root Beer Brew

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

Hmm.. Well, it’s unlike anything i’ve ever tried before -- Very aromatic, smells like syrup, sasafras, licorice root. Taste is similar, almost sickeningly sweet. There is an annoyingly minty wintergreen flavour that should never be put in a beer. I could barely finish a third of a bottle, a whole bottle would be too much. I have no idea how to rate this, on the one hand it was bold and unique, on the other hand I didn’t really enjoy it!

#4in the special "Brewer Patriot Collection" 4-pack. This is the one I’ve been waiting for most of all! Amber in color, not cola colored like you’d think. This on has heavy aroma of licorice (anise). slight smoke aroma, wintergreen, clove, and lots of other herbals going on. The only flavors I get are licorice and clove, slight honey but barely. All this beer has is a bunch of spices and that’s about all. Not what I got my hopes up for. Ugh, very licorice

brewer patriot series. smells bad, like my own homebrewed hard root beer. that experiment was a total drainpour - so this aroma doesn’t excite me. tons of sarsaparilla and wintergreen, as well as the anise. overall the aroma is herbal more than anything else. the flavor is molasses-sweet, cloyingly so. Note to self: if sam adams can’t make a good hard root beer, i probably can’t either. give it up!

Bottle sampled from Stegosaurus through The Mad Indian. Pours amber with a beige head. Aroma of black licorice and root beer. Flavor is black licorice, bitter, and nasty. I dumped this one.

Clear, amber colored body and a two finger thick, foamy head greeted me after pouring into a pint glass. The decent appearance held my attention for brief moment until the smell hit the nostrils. Wintergreen, licorice, and other odd herbs made for an aroma that was as far removed from a beer as any I’ve ever come across. As bad as the smell was, the flavor was worse. The vanilla, honey, molasses, and herbs proudly listed on the label as ingredients made for a terrible mess of mangled flavors. Sam Adams, you have achieved to create what I thought was impossible until today. A drain pour.

This is an original root BEER. Unlike the sweetened, carbonated, artificially flavored sodas which we commonly refer to as root beer, this is actually brewed like a real beer. Throughout history brewing mainly served the purpose of purifying otherwise unsafe drinking water. Instead of the customary bitter sometimes a sweeter, more unctuous beverage was desired. The art of brewing can produce incredibly diverse results--as we can see in the diversity of beers alone. Congratulations to the Boston Beer Company for bringing this historical, authentic, unique, and throughly enjoyable beverage to us enthusiasts. This root beer certainly is different, but definitely rewards the daring and expirimental with a taste that I have encountered nowhere else. Thank you for this one-of-a-kind experience.

Pours a medium amber with little to no head. Nose is of root beer candy, with that there sasafrass comin through potent. Notes of wintergreen chewing gum as well. Flovors are similar to the aroma but quite sweet, but with some kind of potentness that I’m assuming comes along with a brew made from bark. I liked it, but definitly different. Again cheerd to the BBC for their efforts with this collection.

Bottle from the "Brewer/Patriot" box set. Muddy brown with a poofy head ... looks just like the dark wheat (which was good). But this sends out a waft of licorice on the nose, that was uninviting. Interestingly, this almost tastes like root beer (ie, A&W), but with a spicy twist of spearmint or something. Interesting, and a scientificly intriguing presentation, but the more I drank, the nastier it got. I won’t seek this out again!