Samuel Adams Double Bock

Pros: Sweet malt goodness; Complex flavor and nose
Cons: Only brewed/sold three months each year.

Big, bold beers are a treat for the senses. Most of the time, a medium- bodied brew is exactly what I want, whether the occasion is an after dinner drink, a beverage with a meal, or a drink to share with friends. But other times, my extreme side takes ...

Pros: Packed with complex flavors, wonderfully warming with alcohol, a true sipping beer
Cons: You love it or you hate it

Triple Bock is not your average beer. You’ll realize this when you first glance at the elegant cobalt blue bottle embossed with “Sam Adams Triple Bock” in gold print. Then you’ll see the price: $4.75 or so for an 8.75 ounce bottle. No, this is certainly ...

Pros: Rich, sweet, malty brew for a great price
Cons: None

Here we go again for a stroll down Beer Memory Lane. I have been drinking this beer for many, many years now, since it was first introduced in fact in 1988. This was the first seasonal beer I came across in the Samuel Adams line, I seem to recall it ...

Pros: Rich, sweet and malty
Cons: -

It's a wiggly world we live in, and just as Munich is really the place where the world's best Vienna beers are brewed, so too is it the place where the world's best bock beers are brewed, even though the style originated in, and gets its name from, the ...

Pros: Bold, strong, tasty, complex, and cheap - the best winter beer I've had this winter.
Cons: If you're afraid of taste and calories, steer clear.

Any beer with the word "double" in it gets bonus points with me. I love the taste of beer more than any other alcoholic beverage, but at the typical 4.5-6% APV, it takes a tremendous, renal-tormenting amount to get me intoxicated and I like being ...

Pros: One of the more readily available winter seasonals.
Cons: The calories, darn it!

This winter has dragged on for much too long. It's March now, spring is less than three weeks away and I still have three feet of snow in my yard. I live on Cape Cod, where we don't usually get much snow. This year we've gotten about seven feet of the ...

Pros: Very Pretty Bottle
Cons: What's In It

The Samuel Adams brewery makes close to thirty different beers. Most of them are very good. Some, like the Cream Stout, are excellent. Their flagship brew , Boston lager is a decent beer which is widely available in bars and restaurants. I am not knocking ...

Pros: It comes in a pretty bottle.
Cons: It tastes dangerous.

I like fine alcohol. In addition to beer, I drink my martini's dry, my scotch on the rocks, I sip tequila, and I love a full bodied port wine - but this stuff is too much.

Do you not remember those little green "Yuck" stickers?...

Pros: Rich and full of flavor
Cons: May be too thick and dark for some

O, thy frothy brew
Who spake of "nectar of the Gods"
When no deity near equals you
Much less their languid dew.

Ok, maybe that's overdoing it a slight bit, but this is one great beer. It amazes me the difference a...

Pros: Widely available, good American doublebock (for now).
Cons: Sometimes hard to find, not up to the Germans (or the Pennsylvanians).

Well, I wasn't doing anything else tonight anyway.

This is the B side of a twin review of Paulaner Salvator and Samuel Adams Double Bock, the champ and the challenger. I've got two copies of Epinions open (okay, by the...

Pros: An adventure in each bottle!
Cons: Adventurers sometimes get eaten by wild animals or fall off mountains.

It's been many years since I first met this curious creation, and I still remain solidly a fan. By the time this beer came out in 1994, I had been trying microbrews (what ones there were at that time) and as many different uncommon or new imported...

Pros: Beautiful bottle
Cons: Expensive

Wow. I don't know where to begin. I received a bottle of Triple Bock (1995 reserve) for Father's Day and immediately placed it in the fridge. Later, I poured it all into a glass and took a pretty good drink. I probably would have spit it out, but I...

Pros: Simply the best
Cons: Where can you find it?

This has to be the most elusive, but best beer I have ever tasted. There is a story behind it-so humor me and read on.

The year is 1995, February, and I had just turned 21. At the time I was living in Austin, near to my father. This...

Pros: Creme de la creme
Cons: can't think of any....

Okay, no commentary on any other brand, just the scoop on this GREAT BEER. I was able to try this several years ago when it first debuted on the market. It was all the rage at that time, A TRIPLE BOCK? No one had ever heard of it. Even Germans...

Pros: Close to the middle tier of German Doppel Bocks
Cons: The recipe could use a few tweaks to enhance its flavor

With trepidation I approached the Sam Adams Double Bock. This company has had problems with their foreign 'taste-alikes'. Their wheat beer was a pretty good Weizen, but should have kept the cherries out of the concept and the Lambic was a loss. So I...