Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Rated 3.432 by BeerPals
Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Boston, MA, United States Style: Vienna / Amber Lager
4.8% Alcohol by Volume
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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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| Overall Rank | 6799 |
| Overall Percentile | 93.7 |
| Style Rank | 16 of 1069 |
| Style Percentile | 98.5 |
| Lowest Score | 1.0 |
| Highest Score | 5.0 |
| Average Score | 3.439 |
| Weighted Score | 3.432 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.596 |
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199 Member Reviews
Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 7
Pint on tap at Local Taphouse, Sydney. Sweet malt nose, golden amber beer with thin white head. Full-bodied, burnt caramel malt taste. Finish is more malt with a little hop bitterness. Nothing outstanding but drinkable.
Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5
Light brown/reddish color with white head. Aroma was very light hoppy if at all. The taste was a rich malt.
Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6
12oz bottle from the state store
Appearance: Clear golden witha big off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Lager malts, caramel and honey
Taste: Toasted malts, sweet caramel with a bitter herbal finish
OK when nothing else is on tap, but I wouldn’t buy on a regular basis.Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7
Bottle from Rema 1000 (4,7%). Pours clear dark golden with a small white head. Aroma of malt, caramel and hops. Sweet malt and fruits with a lightly bitter finish. Decent lager!
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
On tap at the SFO airport. It is served up very cold in a 23oz schooner and looks to be a clear deep gold with white foam ring and sheet lacing. The aroma is light with a sweet maltiness and chewy breadiness that smells very nice. There’s also a faint hop spiciness. The flavor quaffs in with sweet lightly roasted malts, fresh multi grain bread and mild spice and floral hops that all hit at once. Midway and into the finish the floral and spice hops become overly sweet with a build up of malts. I used to drink the crap out of this beer in the early to mid 90s. It still tastes pretty darn good if it isn’t served too cold.
Aroma: 1 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4
Big deal, its hoppy so what? I don’t find hoppyness a forte. If you want to be an IPA OK. Otherwise I don’t care if there is hop bitterness on the finish. Your typical pale yellow american beer that is just a little offensive. On tap at the robinson twp north park deck house.
Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
The best selling craft beer in the world. Glad I bought stock in the company, and glad others love it. I’m not a fan. The beer pours a transparent light reddish-gold, with a snow white long lasting head. Aroma is fresh bread, weak citrus, and weak yeast. For a beer described as amber, not getting the sweet aromas. Mouthfeel is average. Flavor reminds me of a good central European lager. Good malty base, and a good hop finish. Not too sweet, and not too bitter. But this is an amber lager, so more camel or honey sweetness would have been nice.
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
Bottle. Colour – transparent golden amber, white foamy head, good lacing. Aroma – grains, light caramel, light floral hop notes. Mouthfeel – medium bodied, ample carbonation. Flavour – nicely balanced between the malted grains and the bitter hops. While it may be a better than average lager, it is a below average beer.
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
this is a great dinner beer served up with a appetizer of red meat. it pours decent head with good aroma and has the right about of taste that is needed
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Pours a lovely golden amber colour with a bright head. Medium mouthfeel with strong malty tones and a slightly hoppy afterglow. A nice find at the LCBO.
