Samuel Adams Black Lager

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Schwarzbier
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Bottle. Pours black with a thick light tan head that left decent lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, some diacetyl. Flavor of roasted malt, light bready malts (only faint though) and diacetyl but it didn’t ruin the beer. Nice, smooth, full palate. Easy drinking too. Pretty enjoyable! 7/4/7/4/14 (3.6/5)

From bottle, in red wine glas (all they had). Pured a very dark, black body. Mostly diminishing head. Soft carbonation. Medium malty and roasted, sweet feel. Smells dark bread, grain, hints of chocolate and coffe. Light citrus and a bit of leather. Very light touch of raisin and vanilla as well somewhere out there. Light sweet flavor with moderate bitterness , nice and pretty long finish. Not as good as the top dark czech dark lagers but a very good and very drinkable version of it. Cheers!

Bottle. Sweet and sour aroma. Surprisingly roasted flavor. Easy to drink. Nice.

12 ounce bottle. Poured a dark, almost black body. The head rose to about 2 inches and fell to almost nothing. Left good lacing. Smell was weet roasty and toasty malts. Taste was mooth, sweet, and malty. Nothing complex, but it is a nice drinkable dark beer.

Bottle from Systembolaget. Light sweet and sour aroma. Dark red-brown with a small brown head. Medium body. Tastes of roasted malts a bit like a "light porter"

[Eyes] Caramel-brownie red with a good creamy head, no retention. [Nouse] Aroma was maltroast... some caramel, chocolate, coffe hints and some sour fruit. [MOuth] Moderately bitter in flavor with a touch of caramel malt, Mouthfeel was creamy and slick Good beeer

[35.5cl bottle] Dark ruby colour with a thick and lasting beige foamy head. Roast-malty aroma with a rather complex spectrum of notes of caramel, cacao, coffee and hints of licorice, even subtle berry-fruity notes are detectable. Bitter-sweet flavour, medium bodied with an almost creamy mf. Roasty malty taste with predominant notes of mocha and licorice. Moderately dry, burnt bitter and quite lasting finish with a rounded malty sweetness. A well-made Schwarzbier from the US [11.XII.08].

Samuel adams did a great job with the taste of this beer, complex flavours of chocolate, smoked with nots of malt and high sweetness, bitter sweet pleasant aftertaste.