Samuel Adams Winter Lager

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

Draft at Yardhouse. Dark amber pour with minimal head. Lots of lager malt in the nose. Flavor is the same, with some nuttiness. Fairly dry finish.

Bottle. Pours deep amber. Hops are distant in this lager leaving a loafy-wheat taste . The lager finishes gluten-like with a hint of cinnamon.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Cellar’s Wine & Spirits in St Paul, MN. Pours a clear copper amber brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates clean. Aroma of light bready malt, some roasted nuts and a touch of herbal spices. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonated with flavors of caramel malt, some grassy hops and a touch of white pepper. Finish is semi-sweet with a light caramel malt aftertaste. Not your typical winter lager as I am not sure what to really think of it. Still very drinkable.

Clear copper pour with a soft white head. Aroma is malty with a bready taste.

Draught. Clear copper-brown with a small head. Malty aroma. Malty and quite bready flavor, seems suitable for a winter beer, but the palate is a little light. No wheat phenols detected and no real wheatiness either. Tastes like the lager version of a brown ale.

Served on tap and much too cold, lightly bitter, light body, lively, thin feel, nutty flavor not particularly pleasant.

Draught: Poured a copper to brown amber with a tan color head. The aroma was sweet malts and nuts. The taste was sweet caramel malts and wheat.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear copper with a medium sized, light tan head. Aroma of sweet malts with just a hint of spices. Body is a bit thin. Flavor of toasted bread. Finish is malty. Ok beer.