Samuel Adams LongShot Boysenberry Wheat

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

Consumed 12-13-07. Golden, white head. Nice boysenberry/bluebeery aroma up front, slight bready character in the background. Flavor much the same. Hard to imagine them using real berries, but doesn’t really taste extract-like. Crisp and refreshing. Sessionable crossover, P.D. of a beer. Really not as bad as average suggests.

From my tasting notes. 12 oz bottle. Cloudy orange with a white head. Very fruity aroma, I’m not sure what boysenberries smell like, but it was a berry aroma. Flavor is sweet berries and malt. Not bad. Good summer brew.

Copying from my tasting notes. Bottle. CLoudy orange pour with a small white head. Lots of fruit in the aroma. Strong berry flavor and malt. Too sweet for me.

Courtesy of Quake1028. Pours cloudy gold with orange hue. There is also a thin white head. The aroma is big with loads of boysenberries, some peach and a mild floral note. The flavor is strong with berry extract syrup, vague sugary malt sweetness, faint wheat and more sugar. The taste ends sweet with sugar and residual berry extract. It just doesn’t smell or taste like boysenberry fruit but rather a sugary extract.

Thanks to unclejedi for the bottle. Been wanting to try this one for a very long time since FL sucks and didn’t get these beers. Peach colored body with a very small, vanishing white head. Boysenberry fills the area as soon as the beer is poured. This is some good smelling stuff. Also hints of apricot, sour peaches, sweet grains and malts. No wheat apparent in the nose. Don’t really get much hops either. The wheat shows up in the flavor, along with the fruit notes, but much less sweet than the aroma. Kind of drying actually on the tongue. Medium bodied, lively carbonation. Finish is wheats and fruit, medium length and pleasing. Good beer, underrated IMO.

The beer parts company with the 12 ounce bottle a slightly hazy golden yellow with a majestic creamy crown of white, as it settles, the lacing forms a tight skirt around the glass. Nose is sweet with malt and the berries provide a candy like backing, fresh and pleasing to the senses, start has a decent malt profile, with the over ripe fruit sweetness a pleasing plus, top is light to moderate in feel. Finish continues the sweetness, the hops light but pleasing, the aftertaste dry, and a fine drinking beer, different, but a pleasure to sample.

Uck. Tasted like typical crappy fruit beers--like drinking the milk after a bowl of fruit loops. The worst part is the watery-ness. Insubstantial.

Poured a hazy orange color with a medium sized, creamy, off white head, that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet berries, vanilla, not much else, but it doesn’t seem artificial... Taste of boysenberries and wheat, some cereal, vanilla, and toffee malt. Not terribly bad, not super exciting, probably should have had this cold in the summer.