Samuel Adams Winter Lager

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Light amber colored pour with a slight carbonation, pleasant caramel aroma. Flavor was intially spicy and sweet with a little malt aftertaste. Good mainstream winter lager.

12oz bottle from Jans Wine and Boos#1 (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark brown amber color with red highlights. Massive twi finger tan head settles slowly and heavily laces the glass. Aroma is slightly malty and wheaty with some slight notes of chocolate, spice, and caramel. Flavor is malty and slightly sweet with notes of wet sour hay, some caramel and nut overtones, faint bitterness toward finish. Generally light to medium body with a slightly bitter malt finish. A little too watery and devoid of flavor for a winter/christmas beer.

Clear amber color, aroma is very slight well rounded hoppy flavor with slight spice and slightly bitter finish

12oz bottle from 6-pack. Pours nice with a decent tan head. Aroma mostly of sweet malt. Nice dark reddish-amber. Smooth. More like a bock - wait - it IS a bock! A nice brew.

Tap at hooters....Not great. This was a little too sweet for me. Lots of caramel hints. Just does not do it for me.....not one bit

On tap pint at Millers Ale House, Lombard Il. Amber hue, fair, white head and hardly any lace. Served a little too cold but detected aroma of roasted malt, yeast, and maybe caramel. These and some hop bitterness were all I could muster in the flavor department. Okay as a food compliment.

Sample at December 12, 2008 Beer Club meeting. Orange-brown, clear and carbonated. No real head... the body looks very thin as well. Aroma is malty... flavor is sweet and malty, but not overly so. Yep, thin body. Chilly. Tastes amber. Easy going down. Not bad... standard SA quality.

Red amber color. Smell of bread, raisins, cinnamin, caramel and nuts. Smooth without too much carbonation. Taste of bread, wood, with caramel conclusion. Those who like would also enjoy Delirium Noel.