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Time to skate over from pilsner to lager and a beer you will find all over the country in Sam Adams Winter Lager.
“Same old holiday? Not this year. Sam Adams Winter Lager is brewed with cinnamon and orange peel — no baking required. Full-bodied, festive flavors and smooth as a sleigh ride, bring an unexpected twist to your holiday parties.”
Black Is Beautiful is back with Volume 2. It will be a hazy IPA and Samuel Adams has teamed with their own Angel City to lend support to Weathered Souls the lead of this project to bring awareness and some donations to the National Black Brewers Association.
If you broke your Magic 8 Ball or it refuses to give a good answer then maybe you need the Samuel Adams ‘I CAN’t’ Can. When you need an excuse to drink, the can shall provide.
When I heard the news that Sam Adams Boston Lager had a recipe overhaul, part of me thought, in a Bostonian accent, what’s the big deal.
Recipes morph and evolve as the years pass, especially such a legacy beer like Boston Lager. But Sam Adams (maybe using some Truly money) has added a fun marketing twist to the change by tying the bright (supposedly) new taste with a brighter Boston attitude.
And it is funny, especially…
Of course Sam Adams and Dogfish Head have a sharing pipeline, that is not so strange and of course the Minute IPAs and Utopias are obvious as where to go first but I am still kinda on the fence about…..
….this seems to be more battle royale than melding of flavors.
Breweries seem to be leaning back into flagships as inspiration for brand extending. Think Two Hearted or Ja Alai and their siblings.
It should come as no surprise then that Dogfish Head and Sam Adams are leveraging Utopias now as well….
To be honest, this sounds like an interesting treatment and if given a bottle would profusely thank the giver but will that be the same with the next beer in this possible series?
Need some boots for the brewery or the trails or wherever you wear boots? I wouldn’t know because I don’t think I ever owned boots. But these new ones from Timberland look kinda cool…
I like that the color scheme matches and the logo is prominent but not dominant.
A double dip of Sam Adams Christmas cheer in the shape of Old Fezziwig and Chocolate Bock in shiny new cans for 2020. Not in large supply though. But there is their Winter Lager to have.
For those who have not had Utopia from Sam Adams, well this is new collaboration with business partner, Dogfish Head might be a close approximation for you to try. Not that World Wide Stout is something to sneeze at.
