Samuel Adams Triple Bock
I have had this a couple of times, most recently from a BA tasting at the Freetail Brewpub in San Antonio. A: Pours ink black. No head, no lace. Looks dead and lifeless. S: The aroma made me want to vomit. Full on soy sauce and fusel alcohol. Not just burning, but paint thinner and nail polish like. Just horrid. T: Just a bit better, but not much. A really big soy sauce flavor that seems to be a theme in many reviews. A bit more of an actual malty flavor though. Very light milk chocolate initially. Then the paint thinner like fusel alcohol takes over that makes me cringe. M/D: Thick, syrupy, and like glop. Like an adhesive sticking to the roof of your mouth. This is not the first sample of Triple Bock that I have dumped out. I have had, and said this many times. What the hell was BBC thinking? Just a god awful beer that has not improved at all with time. I guess it has roots in the hole extreme beer thing, but really just a bad beer.