Samuel Adams 1790 Root Beer Brew

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

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy copper with a one finger off-white head that leaves decent lacing. Aroma of sassafras, wintergreen, licorice, and caramel. Taste is the same as aroma but with an unpleasant bitterness. Medium mouthfeel with a spicy finish. A very interesting brew but not one I could drink all the time.

Poured a lightly hazed golden color. The aroma was strong with root beer, spices, licorice, and smoke. The flavor was sweet to start with a spiced middle and tart malty finish. Medium bodied. It was pretty odd but I didn’t think too terrible. It actually started to grow on me. I just don’t know how much I can drink of it.

Pours a three finger off-white head that fades to a thin layer leaving some lace. Cloudy amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Strong root beer nose. Flavor is root beer and hops, some sweetness, unique, would make a good summer beer. $9.99 - 4-pak, 12oz bottle from Shaw’s Supermarket Concord, NH.

12oz bottle. tastes like ginger beer. unusual taste, but aromas were enticing. the problem with sam adams is that they produce beers that have wonderful aromas, but once you taste them, they just don’t carry the same appeal. this is an example of that. sassafras, ginger, jasmine, and black licorice in the aroma, but the taste was akin to root beer that had been spliced with jaeger, and then dipped in liquefied brown sugar. i’m glad that bbc is experimenting, this one just wasn’t a hit for me.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a head of finely sized white colored bubbles that were fully diminished and left behind a hazy orangish light brown colored with fine particulate and a poor lacing. The strong root beer aroma was its best characteristic. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The horrible potato sasafras flavor contained notes of ycuk yuck yuck and more yuck. A horrible one that I would never even consider buying again. A true drain poor!

bottle from UncleMattie! Nose smells like the old fashioned sassafras root beer my neighbors brewed and handbottled in the 1950s; you can smell the sassafras, wintergreen, and licorice; slightly hazy copper with a small beige head; Flavor shows quite a bit of wintergreen, sassafras, and some licorice; like the homemade stuff i had as a kid. Once in a while we would get an "infected" bottle that had fermented the sugar, maybe this is where I started liking dark beer!

My first drain pour in many years. Maybe it was infected. Aroma of sasafras - root beer. Pours fairly dark brown with thin off-white head. So far, so good. I hold it up to the light to see the color and clarity clearly, and see a LOT of dark brown solids floating around in it. Some large (1/2 dime size) but mostly fines. One sip and the bitterness/astringency/overpowering sasafras made for one foul liquid, which I can not bring myself to call beer. I never thought I would say that about a SA product, but there it is.

flavor doesnt last for long, but this one was great while it lasted. taste like a slight twist on a flatter root beer.