beer_name: Samuel Adams Boston Lager
text: Presentation: 12oz bottle, bottle does say it should of been consumed before july, so I just hit the serve by date. Appearance: Basic lager appearance amber in color medium head bordering on smaller, which dissolves quickly into a thin soapy lacing that hardly clings to the glass. Smell: floral hops, sweet malt. Taste: for the smell being floral this beer has a lot of the malt in it a bit grainy. For the floral scent you would expect this beer to be far less bitter then it is. Floral in the fore taste with a dry hoppy bite, which well leaves the mouth feeling dry. 2.5-3.0 Mouthfeel: surprisingly dry for a lager. Proper carbonation but leaves the mouth dry. Drinkability: Still prefer the Brooklyn lager even if it is a bit too sweet. (although thanks to beer advocate I have been informed this a vienna lager, so maybe I cannot compare the two) Too dry to have several, but not flavorful enough to want to have several. An average lager. Perhaps the commericials are truthful enough to say it would go with any kind of meal because it in no way overpower any flavor because the flavor is lacking.