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Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Samuel Adams Boston Lager - Premium Lager

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 Percentile 
66
overall
Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Premium Lager

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
25873.2/5.03.2/5.04.9%96.3Lager glass
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Commercial Description:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager® is the best example of the fundamental characteristics of a great beer, offering a full, rich flavor that is both balanced and complex. It is brewed using a decoction mash, a time consuming, traditional four vessel brewing process discarded by many contemporary brewers. This process brings forth a rich sweetness from the malt that makes it well worth the effort. Samuel Adams Boston Lager® also uses only the finest of ingredients including two row barley, as well as German Noble aroma hops. The exclusive use of two row barley not only imparts a full, smooth body but also gives the beer a wide spectrum of malt flavor ranging from slightly sweet to caramel to slightly roasted. The Noble hops varieties, Hallertau Mittelfruh and Tettnang Tettnanger, add a wide range of floral, piney and citrus notes, which are present from the aroma, through the flavor, to the lingering smooth finish. We take great pride in the Noble hops used in our beers. They are hand selected by Jim Koch and our other brewers from the world's oldest hops growing area. Among the world's most expensive, they cost twenty times as much as other hops.
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Irishlad7 (10), , Pennsylvania, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/59/104/518/20
Aug 22, 2008  
I am really an import beer drinker, but this beer is exceptionally good. Every time I drink it I crave pretzels to go with it. Thank you for a great beer.


urnamesucks (92), New York City, New York, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/513/20
Aug 20, 2008  
As far as American beers got his one is great. Cheers to the revolutionary Sam Adams.


EnnuiDivine (10), New Jersey, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/519/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Everything good and noble about American beer can be applied to Boston Lager. This darkish lager plays Grey Goose to Budweiser’s Popov.


 Ceebs25 (217), Naperville, Illinois, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 17, 2008  
On tap at the Edgewater Grill at the Marriot thanks to a good man. Fairly uneventful aroma, a larger sweet malt presence than others of this style, but not unappealing at all. Dark ruby red in color, small but workable head, minor lacing, fairly appealing overall. Tastes is pretty darn good for the style, crisp, yet smoother than most lagers, caramel fruit malts make this one slightly more special than average, fairly standard US lager hop bitter along with it. Probably the gold standard for mass produced American lagers in my mind... enjoyable.


 rader58 (164), Leawood, Kansas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/516/20
Aug 16, 2008  
Pours a beautiful clean amber. Clean hops aroma, grassy. A slight bitterness to the taste. Good beer.


HyreOne (9), York, South Carolina, USA
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3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/512/20
Aug 14, 2008  
Straw colored. Pours a nice head (in fact this started creeping out of the bottle). Sweet malt aroma. Nice malt flavor with a bit of hop backbone. Light mouth feel.


 markwise (1132), 15 Minutes from Kuhnhenn in, Florida, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/58/20
Aug 13, 2008  
A missle of the road beer. I have to think it would be better warm-fermented. There is a nice hoppy aroma and a malt backbone to it but between the lager flavor and the unbalanced finish it loses points easily regained. Jim Koch sure likes it, though.


 liinis (695), Helsinki, Finland
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
Aug 13, 2008  
Dark golden with a medium size off-white head. Delicious hops! nice, almost medium, body. light bitterness and sweetness. a bit of caramel. good one.



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