Samuel Adams Imperial White Ale

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

Bottle poured dirty orange with a fast white head (could be attributed to girlfriend dropping it earlier). Aroma hard on hops and citrus (orange), spice, and a sweet bit. The flavor was big and hard to distinguish. Definitely a strong wit with heavy alcohol, unbalanced but easier to pick out in the aftertaste and exhale. To name a few: caramel, bread malt, barley, spices, orange, apricot, and some other smaller citrus pieces. Sweet to start, hard and spicy finish. Might be a bit better after letting it settle before distributing.

I am not a big fan of Belgium WItbier. This one was very thick, sweet, and had a strong citrus flavor. The alcohol can not be tasted, which is a shock considering the percentage.

Decent beer. All the complexion of a Belgian, but much more of a quad or something obviously "huge"--rich, dense palate, big candi sugar notes, prominent alcohol, and some yeasty, bready, fruity notes. Quite a lot to tease out of it, interesting and satisfying. Hazy chestnut brown color.

This was a very good beer but not necessarilly one that I would drink again. Has an extraordinarilly fruity aroma and flavour. I drank this out of a shaker

Turbid orange/brown color out of the bottle with a quick, off white head. Orange peel and coriander spice in the nose, with lots of looming alcohol. This is a big beer, and a huge wit. It is very boozy. Thick, syrupy mouthfeel with lots of melted caramel, warm bread, bitter orange peel, spice, and lots of alcohol. I can really feel it on the exhale. This is an interesting take on a wit.

Poured into the glass it produced a very nice, opaque, golden-hued beer. It had a nice film around the edge after the head settled. The aroma consisted of a lot of hops. It was also pretty sweet - reminded me a little of traditional Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Aside from this, it was a pretty complex scent and I couldn’t pick everything out. As for the taste, there wasn’t much to say at the start of it but at the end there was a hit of everything. There was a nice combination of barley and spices and a slight bite from the aforementioned barley and alcohol content. This was a pretty smooth beer but it was a little unbalanced in terms of taste-flow. It started with not much of anything, kicks you with a spice and it ends bitter. It reminded me a little of Chimay White in terms of overall flow.

Hazy orange amber pour into off white head that quickly melts into a ring of lacing as carbonated bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass into a swirling pool of foam. Aroma of sweet malty citrus and spice. Initial flavor of sweet caramel, citrus, and bready malt fading quickly into a bite of peppery spice. Reminiscent of the left over fermented peachy fruit juices from a home made friendship cake my mom used to make. Sticky sweet with a spicey kick in the finish.

Pours out a dark burnt orange with a light colored head that quickly shrinks. A light aroma with notes of grass and slight citrus. A much lighter aroma than expected. Flavor is surprisingly full for such light aroma. Incredibly bitter first taste with a long lasting slightly sour finish. Flavor reflects the wheat origins of this beer. Mouth feel is sticky. Finish is medium in length and leaves a dry mouth feel afterward. After drinking more of this beer I realized how unpleasant it really was. Rarely do I have trouble finishing a beer, but this was one of those times.