Drinking It All: #3 Sam Adams Cherry Wheat

Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It’s a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it’s the means, not the end that counts here.

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cherry coke for adults

Between end-of-the-semester grading, painting and installing moulding and baseboards in a living room, and getting a Xmas tree and decorating, I’m trying to squeeze in this humble post this week so I don’t fall completely off my 12 readers’ radars. Like I’ve said before, I’m not much for fruity beers and can’t think off the top of my head of one that I really, really like. But while Steve and I were making our holiday cherry stout this past weekend, we had some of Sam Adams’ Cherry Wheat.

And I’m drinking the last one right now. That’s correct. Beer review in real time. Get one and drink along. Let’s get interactive.

When they made this Cherry Wheat, nobody told the man with the cherries no. The label says the brewers combined cherries with a generous portion of wheat malt, but, for me, they could have been much more generous. At first, the beer tastes almost exactly like cherry coke. Or at least what I remember cherry coke tasting like from when I was a kid. There’s little about the taste or smell that says “beer.” And that little is only noticable at the very end–actually, I could be imagining it altogether. The aftertaste is of beer.

None of this is to say that the beer is necessarily bad. Steve, an accomplished beer drinker, is a fan of the beer (he bought it), so I imagine there are plenty of other people who’d tell me I’m missing something or just being a dumbass. (I want to hear from you people.)

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Down (The 1st). It just doesn’t seem much like beer. Cherries or no. (It probably doesn’t help that I’m listening to Neil Young’s Arc, which my friend Scooter lent me and called the “listenable equivalent of Metal Machine Music.” Arc and Cherry Wheat do not mix. Don’t try at home.)

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