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Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale - Fruit Beer

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24
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Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Boston, Massachusetts USA

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3002.74/5.02.74/5.0Special-48.5Flute
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Commercial Description:
Created by Samuel Adams Employee Lili Hess, Hawaii This is a very creative spin on a pale ale. As Lili describes it, "It’s like you are drinking a pale ale after biting into a fresh green seedless grape." This delicate brew is light-bodied with unique sweet, yet dry flavors from the grapes. What a combination...
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 Hance07 (192), DownSouth, Georgia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Pours a light golden color with small white head. Honestly wouldnt have known this was a pale ale or had grape in it if not for the name. Its crisp and clean with a slightly sweet finish. I actually enjoyed it alot but the name is misleading.


 rcweir (119), Massachusetts, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/512/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Medium orange brown,moderately carbonated with small head. Aroma of yeast. Thick body with strong maltiness and grape finish fading into hops bitterness. Would not have guessed grapes were used if not mentioned on label.


 Syd (888), Waconia, Minnesota, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/511/20
Mar 11, 2008    Updated: Mar 16, 2008
Bottle pours crystal clear amber with audible fizzy head and no lace. The aroma is malty and honey like; perhaps some grape there. The flavor is malty, grassy, ale fruit notes leaning towards grape, honey, and Cheerios. The palate is a bit thin to medium rich and fizzy. Overall, this is interesting at best. I suppose it works OK enough, but not my favorite. Now I have two others to have to consume...


 Swalden28 (1439), McKinney, Texas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Mar 11, 2008    Updated: Sep 14, 2008
Not bad at all, not what I had expected either, I honestly thought it would be some crazy tasting novelty....Pours a very nice deep amber with a interesting aroma, malty and grapey, if that is a word......Nice light off white head with good retention. Flavor was unique, light grape flavor, very light, thank god, with a very nice maltiness as well as a nice very slight bitterness to compliment the taste......pretty good!


 TheBeerOrg (1563), Kentucky, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/512/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Pours bright amber with a fully receding wispy off-white head. Aroma of caramel, light hop resins, earthy malt. Taste is light caramel, woody hops, light citrus. Medium bodied with lively carbonation.


 FROTHINGSLOSH (1961), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/54/103/58/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vivid amber color with a large yellow-white head. The aroma was tangy and sweet grape. The flavor was sweet and sugary initially with noted grape flavors and turned oddly dry towards the finish. Yep it is grape, but I don’t get the pale ale part as there is no hop presence whatesoever. I can not say it is a disappointment only because I did not expect it to be any good.


 junon (210), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Liked the colour. I had to let this warm just a bit to care for it. Only when I was near the bottom of the glass did I really get any grape flavor. I think that "extra" flavoring saved this beer. Right on sista Lili.


 MrBunn (1520), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/59/20
Mar 10, 2008  
Bottle. Saw this at the beer store and kinda wondered what on Earth they were thinking, but not one to flee responsibility I bought it, brought it home and avoided it for a couple of weeks. Pours an amber color with a couple fingers of head and an unseemly aroma of sweet white grape juice, citrusy pale ale scents and some bread-like malt. Flavor is acceptable, but wierd. Like a normal, mild and somewhat uninteresting micro-brew that someone made sweet by dumping a bunch of white grape juice into. Pretty sure I could live clean and easy without another one of these. I would guess that it was a fairly bleak year for the Longshot application pool if this made the cut... either that or they were going for the sweet and malty loving crowd.



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