Samuel Adams Imperial White Ale

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Boston, Massachusetts USA

12 oz bottle from the Bayou. Pours a birght amber color with a medium white head. The aroma was spicy, lots of malts and some bananas. The flavor was similar; something akin to a spicy, more powerful wit with lots of sweet flavors, caramel and other things. Not my favorite thing.

Ugh...if I wasn’t so lazy to get out of this chair this would be a drain pout. In fact this is almost a floor pour. Aroma was cantaloupe with a hint of banana. Pour was a flat dark cloudy orange with no head. Taste was all melon with hints of spices. This is awful and after that last sip gave me motivation to dump it. DISGUSTING!

Pours a dark yellow, notes of citrus, very frothy spicy taste, i liked it!

Pours a dark cloudy yellow with a frothy white head. Aroma of lemon, tangerine heavy spice and slight banana. Flavor is overpowering spice and very citrusy. Sticky short finish. Its tough to get past the over use of spices, frankly I didn’t finish this one.

pours amber with a small beige head. one of those fuckin fruity assed beers. masks the alcohol rather well.

Bottled. Poured medium ambery-orange with a short, uniform cap of white head. The aroma was large and in charge with warm bananas, sticky cloves, and some sort of strong cleanser over a pale malt and honey base.. hot, hot, hot. The flavor had sticky caramel and banana sugars with some peppery and clovey spices around.. hot finish with residual sugars and alcohol.. didn’t come together well. Thick, cloying, and messy on the palate with sticky sweetness laced with intense alcohol all over the place.. any semblance of subtlety was promptly defenestrated, and this was hard to drink.

Pours a rather dark copperish color for any type of wit (imperial or otherwise). Smell is of more obnoxious sweetness and a bit of oxidation. I mean seriously, this is bad. I almost drain poured this garbage. Very little in the spice notes, where is any sort of esters of the Belgian yeast or orange / coriander. Where is the the tart fruit notes, where really is anything. This is awful. I’m going to rate this low just because this is so far off style is isn’t even funny. what the hell is this beer?

Bottle at Flying Saucer, Houston. Pours a lackluster thick, dark orange with a meaty peach and a raisin-with-balls nose. Flavor is strong alcohol-soaked peach mango with a biscuity finish. Thick and pleasant mouthfeel. Bordering on a barleywine in intensity, this beer might be too strong alcohol-wise for its own good.