Samuel Adams Boston Lager

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

Plain, ordinary and boring. An average lager, some bitterness, but too thin. Not much finish. Forgettable.

Une vrai bonne lager gouteuse malgré 4.8%. Belle couleur riche. Malté et rafraichissante. Petite hoppy finale.

An orange beer with a 2 finger head. Aroma is sweet malt with a decent balance of malt & hops. Has a small amount of bitterness for a lager.

Pours a light amber with a medium thick white head; nice lacing. Aroma of caramel and citrus. Nice balance between the sweetness of the malt and bitterness of the hops. Very drinkable and refreshing, but it seems to me this beer used to be hopier...Anyways, you really can’t go wrong with this as an every day beer.

On tap at the Flying Saucer in KC and poured into the "perfect pint glass." Pours a cystal clear, copper-orange body with a steady rise of carbonation. A huge, two inch, billowing, creamy beige, extremely dense head that dissipates very slowly and leaves a fortress of lacing on the glass. This really looks gorgeous in their glass, maybe they were right about this thing. Aroma is very fruity for a lager with a nice malt backing. A soft floral hop aroma accompanies this well with a bit of a hay feel to it. Flavor is very nice for a lager as well. Sweeter, pale caramels with a light floral hop throughout that gives it just the right amount of bitterness. Maintains a nice amount of fruit throughout with an almost juicy finish. Nice, semi dry finish with a sweet lager yeast, malty, fruity bitterness that lasts for a moderate duration. Palate is medium to full, smooth, and very sessionable. Overall, I was pretty impressed with this lager. It definitely has to do with being on tap and poured into this "notorious" glass. In all honesty though, they made the glass for this beer and it seems to have worked well (or maybe my mind was already made up that it HAD to work well). Whatever, its a damn tasty lager. The rating is based on the style and occasion.

This is probably my least favorite Sameual Adams beer. Its just nothing special to me.

Caramel sweetness quickly followed by a hop bitterness. Not too intense; well-balanced. I can never seem to go wrong with this one as a session beer. It nicely complements a variety of food too.

Pours a clear golden color with a white head. Very slight aroma of malts and some citrus. Flavor is very sweet with a slight hint of floral hops. Okay beer.