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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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 m4rest88 (216), Beverly Hills, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/102/515/20
Aug 12, 2008  
Pours with a clear amber hue with a very white foamey head. Aroma has some hay in it, with some sweet malt. The beer is slightly hoppy with a bit of tropical fruit scent in it. Body is light to medium on the palate and the taste is malty, metalic on the finish and bitter. This flavor carries through from the beginning to the end of the beer. A pretty good mass-brewed lager indeed!


 kiefdog (1534), Tampa, Florida, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 12, 2008  
12oz draught. Pours a clear amber color with a white foamy head that diminishes quickly but still provides lacing on the glass. Aroma is grass, wheat, sweet malt, some hops. Flavor is about the same. A bit of funkiness and bittnerness on the finish, generally light bodied.


 Nik925 (300), California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/511/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Ordinary, Malt and Metal taste dominate. It tries, and very well might be the best lager in the grocery store, but still ends up being a boring lager.


 nbutler11 (729), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Always seems to pour a reliable amber color from the tap or bottle with a trim white head of foam. Mild with hops and balanced with caramel. A good ballpark beer.


 NoiZe (1288), Mooi Zeist, Netherlands
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Tasted somewhere along my trip through the States.
Copper colored brew. Not very special, pretty decent lager though.


 GMUcrew7 (353), Mason, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 9, 2008  
On tap at my buddies wedding, this and Miller Lite, pretty easy choice. Sam Adams somewhat straddles the line between macro and craft brewery and this, their flagship brew, is a good beer. Nice and hoppy with a good sweet malt character for good balance make this an easy drinking lager.


 ChainGangGuy (2522), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Aug 9, 2008    Updated: Aug 10, 2008
$1.29 12 oz. bottle from Total Wine in Kennesaw, Georgia. Appearance: Ah, BBC’s flagship brew! Pours a clear, copper body capped with a half inch of white foam. Fine, webby lacing on the way down. Smell: Toasty, caramel-scented malt nose with a spicy, floral background Taste: Toasted maltiness with a restrained caramel sweetness. Floral, lightly spicy Noble hops with a cleansing bitterness. Faint hint of fruit, particularly upon warming. Crisp, bittersweet finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Enjoyed many times over many years in various forms, Samuel Adams Boston Lager is always a tasty, light, refreshing lager easily within reach be it at concert venues, humble gas stations, or the dreaded Red Lobster.


Blizzer34 (25), New Jersey, USA
0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Aug 9, 2008  
this is the famous samuel adams boston lager...its is excellent and there is nothing more to be said.



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