Samuel Adams Imperial Pilsner

Bottled@Bishops Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. Golden colour, big white foamy head. Aroma is fruity and earthy hops along with some wooden and sappy notes. Flavour is brutally bitter fruity and grassy hops along with some hints of fruits. Dry grass in finish too. Wellbalanced and quite pleasant.

12oz bottle 2/26/09 (Knightly Spirits)-Pours a cloudy hazy orangish amber with a small white head. Aroma of hops and malt. Taste of hops, malt, and slight alcohol. This full bodied brew IMO is very tasty and very well done. I wish they could do this with all their brews. Nice job.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazed orange amber with a small white head that fades quickly. Citrus hops and malt on the nose, with just a touch of alcohol hiding behind. Body is fairly thick, a little sweet, and almost sticky with hops. Finishes with a fairly long lasting quinine bitterness. I was skeptical, but this is rather good.

Pours a golden hue with a thin white head. Aroma is interesting, very hoppy, piney, honey, citrus, and is it just me or does it smell a bit smokey? Drinks very smooth, hoppy, almost buttery. A very balanced beer, practically an IPA, unique for a lager. A solid job by Boston Beer, I always get excited when I see this on the shelf.

Bottle pours a clear dull golden amber with large fluffy off-white head and decent lacing. Great piney hop nose with some honey. Massively green hop flavor with soney and a medium silky body. An over-the-top bitter honey pils, impressive.

Bottled. Man was this unexpected. Gorgeous pours of a cloudy copper colour with a fluffy off-white head and big sheets of lacing. Aroma is spruce hops, alcohol and basic malt. Flavour is straight bitter hops. Not my favourite because I prefer more citrus hops. Finishes very bitter with a little metal. Think I would have rated it a little higher had the hops not been so harsh.

Slightly hazy copper (though handling before serving was a little rougher than ideal), good sticky white head. Lots of fresh herbal hop nose, hay, gentle grapeskin. Big mouthfilling pithy bitterness, but still delicate and balanced. Just a really nice, very hoppy beer.

This brew is just about as hoppy as you can possibly get. Almost ridiculous. Pours a cloudy amberish orange with a short-lived off white head. If I were to take a blindfolded taste test I would put money on this one being an IPA. I wasnt as fond of this beer as many others have been. I bought a four pack and by the third one I was ready for something else. This was too fricken hoppy for my taste.