Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Premium Lager
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Though i’m more of an ale guy, I find this to have a nice flavor to it. Mellow, while still letting you know that you’re drinking a beer. More than anything it just looks fantastic sitting in the mug I poured it in, so I’ll need to review it more later!

Aroma - floral, citrus, slight fruitiness; Appearance - copper, thick fluffy head, excellent lacing; Taste - complex malt front, hint of sweetness, subtle hop notes blend in throughout the back, finish has a mild tang; Palate - faint crispness, good body; Overall - always a classic, so easy to overlook as an over-commercialized micro yet still solid in all areas, quite enjoyable.

Copperbrown beer with small and faint head; aroma of sweet malt and mild grassy hops, little stuffy; thin to medium body, medium carbonation; flavor of root vegetables, sweet malt and hops is stuffy and not very refreshing.

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally worked up the courage to revisit the Samuel Adams Boston Lager. I first tried this beer years ago and I did not enjoy it at all; there was just this bad taste I could not explain. The finish was none too pleasant either. I’ve supped on many different Samuel Adams beers since then, but I had avoided the Boston Lager in every conscious way possible. Until now. A few weeks back I decided I wanted to give the Boston Lager another go, and so I took home a fresh bottle to crack open, sup, and hopefully savor.

He poured into my lager glass a pleasingly clear coppery orange with mahogany and ruby highlights. A very generous head rises to the occasion and lingers for all his worth. Fading in rocky pockets, tufts of lace and coppery puffs stick to the sides of my glass. A slow stream of tiny bubbles race to the surface, where they burst in joyous abandon, releasing unto me a wonderfully fresh nose of hop cones, hop leaves, and crunchy crisp caramelized sugars and melba toast. Green grass, lemon skin, and faint esters of pine mingle along soft notes of butter. In order of appearance, hops hog the stage first before malts force them to share the spotlight. Sesame seed crackers and buttered whole wheat toast tempts me to draw my first quaff, and so I do. Creamy and buttery, his uber-smooth profile glides sensuously over my tongue and down my throat. As I chew on some buttered toast (butter is good and good for you, remember that) green grass and lemon skin heralds the final act. His middle is a brisk highlight of fresh hops, whole cones only please, while pine esters tinge the air with prickly freshness. Pears and apples compliment a continual undercurrent of melba coated in a crunchy glaze of sugars toasted to golden perfection. Quaff and repeat and I have officially changed my opinion of the Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Fresh, green, crunchy, sweet, smooth and very satisfying; a lager of epic quaffing proportions and one of the best.

In comparing my very recent, very real, and very fresh experience with the Samuel Adams Boston Lager, I have to wonder if my first experience years ago were a case of inexperience or an out-of-date bottle. I will never know the reasons why I didn’t like my first Boston Lager years ago, but what I do know is that now I enjoy him very much. As Samuel Adams’ flagship beer, I now understand why it changed the world of lager drinkers when it first came out, and why it continues to do so to this very day.

First beer while watching winter classic on new years day. I am not writing review we all know how this tastes. But its probably the gateway to beer into the world of craft beer, and i’ll always take one

bottle: clear amber, sweet malty aroma, taste is sweet, malty, caramel, just the lightest bite from the hops in the finish

Amber pour with a white head. Very hoppy and refreshing. Smooth malt taste with a hop kick. People hate on this, but it’s classicly good.