Samuel Adams LongShot Cranberry Wit

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

2008 Bottle - Thanks Toby! - Pours golden with a medium off white head...aroma is citrus peel, light spice, not much fruit, dough...flavour is similar, yeast, coriander & spice, some zest and the faintest bit of cranberry...not sure if was intended or faded over time, but still plenty drinkable...

Hazy copper blonde pour into thick foamy white head that slowly dissipates into sticky lacing as carbonated bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass leaving a thin pool of foam. Aroma of malty orange citrus. Initial flavor of lightly toasted wheat bread that fades into a very mild, slightly cranberry tart that maintains a lingering wheat finish.

In the bottle at the 2009 Crescent Moon Summer Beer Festival. Pours reddish gold with so much cloudiness that it is somewhat white. Thick white head. Cranberry aroma is mild. Flavor has mild cranberry tartness. Delicious.

Spinning some easy cranberry notes, the wit doesn’t shy away from being a crisp, pourable beer. The color is tinted a sunrise yellow, with a fresh, mild smell. The aftertaste is enjoyable, slacking the tongue with crisp definition. Some cranberry pops up in the beer’s flavor, but hardly enough to lacquer it onto the title of the beer.

12 oz. bottles. Shared with Tom and Doug. Pours a thin head with attractive lacing over a slightly cloudy dark yellow (SRM 5-7).......nose is coriander, cinnamon, malt.....taste is cinnamon, coriander, slight citrus.....mouth feel is light, carbonation medium. This is a good "hot summer day" kind of beer, but I really don’t get the sense of a fruit beer from it. Tasted 8/30/09.

Hazy dark yellow with smallish white head. Light fruity notes, but nothing that says "Cranberry" in either the aroma or flavor. O.K. but lacks the spicyness of my kind of Witbier. Not enough fruit to be a fruit beer.

A good beer although I wish there was more cranberry flavor in it. Nonetheless, Carissa Sweigart made a pretty good beer. I’d certainly drink it again.

Pours cloudy golden with contrasting white head that retains fairly well, and laces fairly well. Nose is somewhat muted, even in my snifter. Fresh mixed citrus comes through. No huge cranberry. Palate is a nice sweet/sour generic fruity flavor that could be in any witbier, and the cranberry takes a role that isn’t boldly cranberry. It’s not like a lambic or other big fruit beer. This is more subtle. Good drinkability, but I’m not sure how this one deserves to share the Longshot 6-pack with the other two fine beers.