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Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Samuel Adams Boston Lager

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A Premium Lager brewed by
Boston Beer Company

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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22983.19/5.03.19/5.04.9%93.7Lager glass P  Stats

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Samuel Adams Boston Lager® is the best example of the fundamental characteristics of a great beer, offering a full, rich flavor that is both balanced and complex. It is brewed using a decoction mash, a time consuming, traditional four vessel brewing process discarded by many contemporary brewers. This process brings forth a rich sweetness from the malt that makes it well worth the effort. Samuel Adams Boston Lager® also uses only the finest of ingredients including two row barley, as well as German Noble aroma hops. The exclusive use of two row barley not only imparts a full, smooth body but also gives the beer a wide spectrum of malt flavor ranging from slightly sweet to caramel to slightly roasted. The Noble hops varieties, Hallertau Mittelfruh and Tettnang Tettnanger, add a wide range of floral, piney and citrus notes, which are present from the aroma, through the flavor, to the lingering smooth finish. We take great pride in the Noble hops used in our beers. They are hand selected by Jim Koch and our other brewers from the world's oldest hops growing area. Among the world's most expensive, they cost twenty times as much as other hops.

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motnot (8), USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 9, 2001  
The first beer I ever had. The Boston Lager is almost dark enough to be an amber, and just as tasty. I didn’t want to give this beer a perfect rating, but upon drinking my first since joining this site, I had no choice. Boston Lager is a multifaceted beer, from the first whiff to the first taste to the final swig. Rich, creamy, bitter, yet perfectly balanced on the tongue. If I had to drink one beer for the rest of my life, this would be it.


Darth Maul99 (2), USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 19, 2001  
Best Goddamned beer on the planet!


jacomino (4), Miami, Florida, USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Nov 21, 2002  
Wow! What a full satisfying flavor. That is what this one is all about. Delicious in every way with many, many flavors to hunt for with each sip (or gulp as I like to do.)God Bless the USA!


Rainbiker (2), HOMEWORTH, Ohio, USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 6, 2005  
Amber color, medium body. Slightly bitter finish but good balanced beer. I love this beer I drink it most of time when I have a beer


molsonracing86 (13), Fremont, New Hampshire, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Sep 6, 2006  
I’ve noticed something about this website..it’s a TOUGH crowd! It puts my beersnobishness to shame. This stuff even won awards in Germany, saving America from embarassment, because clearly, the Boston Brewery is the only large American brewer that can actually,you know, BREW. Great Stuff.




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