This week's Sunday Night Suds looks at Samuel Adam Spruce Lager.
The Spruce Lager is one of the two new beers included in the Samuel Adams Beers of Fall 2018 mix box, which also includes the flagship Boston Lager (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2013/04/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-boston.html); annual entries Octoberfest (surprisingly never reviewed); Black Lager (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2009/01/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-black.html); a reintroduced old friend in Pumpkin Ale (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2014/03/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-harvest.html); the Spruce Lager and a new Coffee Pale Ale.
The Spruce Lager indicates on the label that it is a beer which is brewed with "spruce tips." I'm not sure what spruce tips are, but if even if they are part of the tree, they have not imparted a pleasant taste to this beer. If the folks at Boston Beer were looking to hop up this lager they have not succeeded. The beer has the look of a lager when poured, but the spruce has added a syrupy flavor which was not welcome. I also tried this with some grilled chicken which usually is an easy pairing, but the flavors did not work together. Well, at least I only have two bottles of this in the mix box.
The Spruce Lager is under the Kosher Supervision of the Star-K and has a Star-K certification mark on the label. To see what the experts on Beer Advocate think about this brew, please follow this link - beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/348243.
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