Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Live fucking review, bitches!
Of Sam Adams Lager! From a bottle!
Decent color for a lager, a light amber in hue. It has a nose as well, a good sign. Unfortunately the nose has some off notes. Dirty, chemical tones, with a bit of natural rubber. At least it still has some lace.
The flavor is sour. Dominantly sour, with little else. Admittedly this particular beer has been sitting around for a bit, has been in and out of the fridge a couple times and is being consumed at cellar temperature. Cellar temperature brings out the flavor of a beer. In this case that is a bad thing. There is a bit of warmth hidden in the flavor profile somewhere, which, if emphasized, might counteract the sourness. But then we would have an ale type flavor, not a lager.
Ok, it is growing on me. I was strongly considering going to get a High Life to wash this down, but that will not be necessary. The mouth feel is clean, but not overly crisp. It is not over-carbonated, a major plus. The aftertaste is not too sour, nor too powerful. For a higher end macrobrew this is decent.
I could drink some more of this. If I had to.
Hmm. Now I kinda like it.
WDTB? People who live in areas where there are no micro brews. Me in airports.
Time for an aside. I do not know how well this sells in Portland. I certainly did not pay for it. I would guess that it either sells really poorly, because for lagers people dink piss water PBR, then pay real money for real beer, or it sells decently, as people have enough of a beer pallet to distinguish this from the other macros. I suppose I could to some real research, but that would cut into my drinking time. I would guess ‘poorly’.
WSDTB? Anyone who lives in an area where you can’t get real microbrews. This is better (I think) than Henry Weinhard’s, the local macro. For whatever that means. As soon as I get a free bottle of that I will review it.
Wow. I just went to Sam Adams website. It sucks. Things move around and make bonging noises, plus you can zoom way in on pictures of beer. In much the same way that you should not do that with porn it is a bad idea with beer. Everything is flash, so I cannot snag a picture for you, as I am too lazy to look elsewhere. Also if you swing your mouse in a haphazard fashion you are likely to induce an epileptic seizure from the jittery beer bottles.
Rating: 7.4/10
Of Sam Adams Lager! From a bottle!
Decent color for a lager, a light amber in hue. It has a nose as well, a good sign. Unfortunately the nose has some off notes. Dirty, chemical tones, with a bit of natural rubber. At least it still has some lace.
The flavor is sour. Dominantly sour, with little else. Admittedly this particular beer has been sitting around for a bit, has been in and out of the fridge a couple times and is being consumed at cellar temperature. Cellar temperature brings out the flavor of a beer. In this case that is a bad thing. There is a bit of warmth hidden in the flavor profile somewhere, which, if emphasized, might counteract the sourness. But then we would have an ale type flavor, not a lager.
Ok, it is growing on me. I was strongly considering going to get a High Life to wash this down, but that will not be necessary. The mouth feel is clean, but not overly crisp. It is not over-carbonated, a major plus. The aftertaste is not too sour, nor too powerful. For a higher end macrobrew this is decent.
I could drink some more of this. If I had to.
Hmm. Now I kinda like it.
WDTB? People who live in areas where there are no micro brews. Me in airports.
Time for an aside. I do not know how well this sells in Portland. I certainly did not pay for it. I would guess that it either sells really poorly, because for lagers people dink piss water PBR, then pay real money for real beer, or it sells decently, as people have enough of a beer pallet to distinguish this from the other macros. I suppose I could to some real research, but that would cut into my drinking time. I would guess ‘poorly’.
WSDTB? Anyone who lives in an area where you can’t get real microbrews. This is better (I think) than Henry Weinhard’s, the local macro. For whatever that means. As soon as I get a free bottle of that I will review it.
Wow. I just went to Sam Adams website. It sucks. Things move around and make bonging noises, plus you can zoom way in on pictures of beer. In much the same way that you should not do that with porn it is a bad idea with beer. Everything is flash, so I cannot snag a picture for you, as I am too lazy to look elsewhere. Also if you swing your mouse in a haphazard fashion you are likely to induce an epileptic seizure from the jittery beer bottles.
Rating: 7.4/10
