Samuel Adams LongShot Cranberry Wit

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Bottle. I liked this beer a lot more than I was expecting. Hazy orangish pour with mostly yeast on the nose, only a hint of fruit. The fruit is apparent in the mouth, but really plays more of a supporting role to the yeast, grains, and other flavor notes. This is a nice refreshing brew.

(12oz bottle) Cloudy amber body with pink tint, large white head. Aroma is medium sweet, cranberry, some lemon, wheat. Taste is medium sweet, cranberry, some lemon, wheat. Light-medium body, some creaminess, light acidity. Nice for what it is.

12 oz. bottle. Poured into a Sam Adams glass. Pours nicely; cloudy brown-yellow beer, pillow of off-white foam. Smells like, well, their cranberry lambic, with slight cranberry notes, barely detectable wit spiciness. Taste is about as good as most mass brewed wits I’ve had. Definitely some spices. Cranberry is, as described, "a touch." May have been part of the ferment, there is a dry finish here. Mouthfeel is a bit heavy. Still, I’m grateful for any fruit beer that doesn’t taste like flavored syrup was poured in, and this one makes that grade.

Hazy golden pour with a meringue-like white head, this is a nice looking pour; however, although it looks pretty nice, the flavor underwhelmed me. It didn’t taste bad, it just was a bit subdued. The spices were just a touch in the background for me. the cranberry was barely present. I would have thought that S.A. could have found a better home brew than this.

my 1,000th rating, and it’s a fruit beer!! hazy reddish/gold, small off white, quickly disappearing head, nice lace. airy nose of bread, with a tart fruity undertone. flavor is mostly yeasty breadiness, with a tartness that suggests fruitiness, but not quite fruit. medium body, kinda spritzy mouth feel, tart finish. surprisingly (and pleasantly) unfruity. still, not a very enjoyable brew. 3 variety 6 pack purchased at liquor depot in monee.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange copper body with a white head. Cinnamon, incense, light fruity esters bread y maybe a hint of cranberry. Not bad but this just isn’t on par with the other two, imagine this was a fail on such a large scale or it was intentionally included to help appeal to a larger group of consumers. who knows.

Pours hazy to melon color with a white head. Smell is wheaty and dull. Taste is wheaty and very faintly tart. Perhaps would have never known there was cranberry in this, had I not known. Drinkable, but bland and boring.

Pours out a cloudy orange/straw color with a moderate whtie head. Aroma of lemon zest, corriander and slight sweetness. Taste is overdone on the corriander, lemon zest comes through, wheat and a slight barly noticable bitter/sweet cranberry flavor. I wanted a lot more cranberry out of this. Also, this reminded me why with a few exceptions I really don’t like Wit beers.