Samuel Adams LongShot Boysenberry Wheat

Formerly brewed at Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Strong berry aroma. Witbier colored body with a generous head. I didn’t care for this beer. Cloying sweetness, taste of artificial sugar. Yuck. Not a drain pour, but I had trouble finishing this. My non beer geek friends tried this and liked it, maybe I will pawn these off in the future because I thought the Old Ale and Dormunder were good beers. Oh well, can’t win em all.

Pours a beautiful frothy white head, which collapses fairly fast. Very cloudy golden color. The aroma is amazing! And the taste is pretty good too. You get a mouth full of boysenberries when you start drinking. No bitterness when you’re drinking it. Pleasing LIGHT hoppiness on your tongue as an aftertaste. Its more of a fruit beer unless you treat it like a wheat beer and swirl a bittle beer in the bottle and then pour the hefe yeast into the glass. Then its not as fruity in the taste, and you get a bit of the yeast in the mouth, plus its a heavier mouthfeel. Too bad they don’t sell this as a six-pack by itself. James Spencer (Basic Brewing podcast) interviewed the dude that made this recipe. He’s an employee of Sam Adams. Anyways, its an EXTRACT recipe!!

Slightly cloudy gold, thin white head. Nose is blueberry, sweet tarts, citrus & cream. Flavor is berry, wheat, cream, ligtly toasted malt. Orange & wheat finish.

(12oz bottle) Medium white head atop lightly hazed straw body. Aroma is medium sweet, strong berry, light wheat. Taste is moderately sweet, grape, berry, some wheat. Light-medium body, light fruity stickiness.

So that is what a boysenberry tastes like! I truly wanted to hate this beer, but I couldn’t. It actually is quite good. Maybe better as the mercury climbs, but enjoyable right now. slight fruity, berry, grapey notes to aroma and on the palate Backed by a solid, crisp whaet ale.

Hazy golden in color with a small quickly diminishing head. Aroma is quite fruity with notes of cereal. Flavor is malty, some wheat presense, citrus, slightly astringent. Finish is crisp and fruity. I usually despise fruit beers but this one was well, pretty good.

Strong boysenberry aroma with scents of malt. Cloudy golden color with a xmall white head that doesn’t fade. Subtle Start to the taste that finishes nicely with berries. Good mouth feel, not to watery or thick.

Well, my wife really liked it! I thought the aroma was a bit on the artificial side, leaning to blueberry as much as boysenberry, but the flavor had an up-front blend of fruit and wheat that gave way to a bit heavy sweetness. The palate was lively, substantial carbonation with a sticky body. Really not bad at all.