Samuel Adams Winter Lager

Pours a nice reddish copper color with a slight head. Form the smell you can smell some spice notes. The taste is sweet malts with a some spice. I can easily throw back a rew of these easily. Good winter offering from SA.

Pours a dark copper-amber with minute slightly offwhite head that dissipates quickly; nose is nutty caramel, rather sweet, sort of a nutmeg/hazelnut aroma; again very sweet on the palate, wheat shows up in the decent body for a lager, mild minty hops towards the finish. Pretty palatable if not very fortifying.

Pours a dark amber with a very light, fluffy tan, but almost white head. Has a hoppy and a spicy aroma and a taste that starts out mildly bitter, then seemingly has a metal aftertaste, but only on a few odd sips. Doesn’t stic around on the palette very long, but does leave somewhat of a bit of a caramel aftertaste.

Bottle. Reddish copper color with an off-white head. Aroma: sweet malt, caramel, cookies, spices and light alcohol. Flavor: Sweet malt, spices, caramel, oranges, some alcohol and a very light bitterness.

Single bottle bought at John’s Grocery (Iowa City, IA). Poured into a conical pint. Pours a dark coppery red color with a decent creamy offwhite head. Aromas of sweet malty head that smells a little bakery-esque. Taste is a pleasantly subdued malty sweetness that reminds me vaguely of wheat thins, but considerably less sweet than them. Grainy, malty, good. You can tell it’s a Sam Adams brew just by the taste (Same Water? Malts? I dunno...I’ve noticed you can tell it with a lot of places though). Finishes clean and smooth, with no "hard hitting" aftertaste, instead choosing to go out nice and mellow, fitting for a winter brew that suits sitting back and keeping warm under a blanket. I went into this review thinking it would suck, but it really surprised me for the better. Will drink again.

355 ml bottle. Pours a clear reddish copper with an adequate off-white head. Slightly sweet malty nose. Medium body. Semi-sweet up front followed by a nice round malt profile with a touch of spice. Finishes with a slight tartness.

On draught. Copper-amber color, with a thick head, leaving lots of lacing. Bready aroma. This beer has a thick, creamy mouth feel. The flavor is malty, with minimal wheat flavor. Hop background is slightly bitter but hardly noticeable.

Sam Adams Winter Lager is a nice ruddy red with a decent light tan head. Smells very viney and sweet...I smell some grape but could be way wrong. It smells nice and malty. The flavor is a little sour with some nice grape bitterness...sort of like white grape. I think the sourness is due to the wheat presence. There’s a sweetness in the beginning of the taste that gets chased by a sour bitterness at the finish. Well balanced, drinkable winter beer.