Where to buy Samuel Adams beer?

[East Coast Flame]

The Crowfoot Liquor Store downtown always has the Boston Lager and sometimes has the seasonal Lagers as well. Good stuff. The beer snobs up in here need to relax and worry about their own drinking preferences.

[Locke]

I vehemently dislike the stuff, but I understand how some would like it.

I find that it tastes as though it was brewed either by children, or someone with a child's mentality:

HOPS!!! WHOO!!! HOPS ARE THE BEST!!!! MORE HOPS!!!!

Yeah, and that tastes like ass. But some poeple like the incredibly hoppy flavour. I'm just not one of them. I prefer more balance.

[Wormius]

Different strokes for different folks. There are only two beers that I would never, ever drink again - the garlic beer from that garlic restaurant in Calgary on 4th Street, and Fin du Monde, because it tastes like beer mixed with grain alcohol.

I do recommend checking out the documentary "Beer Wars", it is quite interesting about micro/macro breweries in the US.

[Jimmy Stang]

^ Garlic beer? I love garlic, and I love beer, but the thought of combining the two sort of scares me.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Different strokes for different folks. There are only two beers that I would never, ever drink again - the garlic beer from that garlic restaurant in Calgary on 4th Street, and Fin du Monde, because it tastes like beer mixed with grain alcohol.

I do recommend checking out the documentary "Beer Wars", it is quite interesting about micro/macro breweries in the US.

2 things.

I love La Fin du Monde.

That doc isn really interesting.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

^ Garlic beer? I love garlic, and I love beer, but the thought of combining the two sort of scares me.

Yeah, the combination didn't work. I am not sure if it was supposed to be a novelty or what. I had it a few years ago during the Lilac Festival. It came in a a really nice cobalt blue Grolsch-type bottle, though.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

2 things.

I love La Fin du Monde.

That doc isn really interesting.

Interesting in how big breweries take-over and assimilate successful independent breweries and how beer in marketed in the US.

No further comment on Fin du Monde, except that it tastes like nothing else, I'll give it that.

[simmonjam1]

I love Boston Lager on tap! I've bought a 6 pack in the past in Calgary that tasted old; maybe thats there the hate for this beer comes from.

If I'm in the US I drink Shiner Bock, Sam Adams, Fat Tire (in that order).

I don't find it too hoppy. Try an Arogant ####### IPA if you want to try a beer with too much hops in it.

[Bobblehead]

You can find it all over town.

http://www.liquorconnect.com/Product...-00307330.aspx

You are supposed to be able to use the main site to find anything available in Alberta.

http://www.liquorconnect.com/Pages/default.aspx

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Locke

I vehemently dislike the stuff, but I understand how some would like it.

I find that it tastes as though it was brewed either by children, or someone with a child's mentality:

HOPS!!! WHOO!!! HOPS ARE THE BEST!!!! MORE HOPS!!!!

Yeah, and that tastes like ass. But some poeple like the incredibly hoppy flavour. I'm just not one of them. I prefer more balance.

Well I hope no one ever gives you an IPA because your head would probably explode. I have never heard the Boston lager described as unbalanced. Even people who are not fans of the Vienna Lager style will admit that the toasty malt is well balanced with the grassy/floral euro hops.

I really don't get the hate. I guess if you consider that beer should taste like the brewed corn syrup that is Canadian, Kokanee, Keiths, Bud etc then Sam Adams could seem like too much but honestly, Boston Lager is a very old recipe of a rare style of beer and Boston Brewing company has deep roots in the craft beer movement.

The only other readily available beer in the same style I can think of is Negro Modelo and Boston Lager is a much better beer.