Samuel Adams LongShot Cranberry Wit

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

Wow! This is really really good. Absolutely perfectly balanced. The cranberry and spices delicately applied. Creamy mouth feel. A lot of fruit beers taste artificial. Not this one. It tastes fresh and real. It’s like your drinking it from the tap out of the bottle. I hope they make this a regular beer. If you haven’t tried it go get it while you can.

A: Hazy orange with large but dissipating head A: HUGE aroma, Bread, yeast, orange, classic wit aroma T: Tart with flavors of wheat, yeast, orange, a presence of grassy hops, a hint of juiciness M: Light and Dry... very refreshing and smooth OA: As to style, this brew was damn good and much better than expected. Perfect summer drink. I’m actually not as hesitant to try the blackberry wit now.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Appearance: On top there is a small (one finger thick) off white head. It quickly settles down to a thin ring of foam that leaves behind some lace rings on the glass. Smell: Its aroma is fruity, spicy, and tangy with notes of wheat and citrus as well. Taste/Mouth: The flavor has a nice wheat malt base with orange citrus notes, tart cranberry and solid dose of fine Saigon cinnamon. Hop favor and bitterness are very mild. It finishes dry with wheat tang and spice. The texture is lively with plenty of soft carbonation in a medium body. Notes: This is by far the best fruit beer from Samuel Adams! I would love to see this in there regular line up!!

A fruit beer with real fruit flavor (no chemical/medicinal notes) with good balance, flavor, and tartness.

Not much aroma. Great cloudy orange color. This is way better than I expected. A bit of thickness. Some fruit flavors but really not much cranberry, so this was surprisingly good and drinkable.

Very fruity and refreshing. Definitly spices,oranges,and cranberry. Has a good balance for a fruity beer.

In a mixed six. Pours a hazy gold with a hint of pink. Aroma is yeast and a bit of tart. Mouthful is crisp with an excellent cranberry feel that really makes me wish this was the entire six. Very enjoyable especially on a hot day.

12oz bottle. Pours very cloudy - almost opaque - with orange/gold notes and subtle touches of grapefruit-pink. Head pours medium in size and white in color. It doesn’t last long, but it does leave a few long wisps of lace on the glass. Aroma is bready and dry with lots of wheat and subtle fruit. Malt character has a wonderful fresh bread quality with subtle aromatic spices - very inviting. Flavor starts fruity and wheaty with a very subtle cranberry tartness that blends perfectly with typical witbier flavors. It has an excellent, crackery, fruity malt sweetness that turns to pleasant mix of tartness and light noble hop bitterness in the finish. The finish is dry and spicy with gentle notes of coriander and tart berry. The mouthfeel is tingly and effervescent with a sudsy, almost creamy, bready, malty medium body. Overall, a surprisingly refreshing, interesting, drinkable, tasty, warm weather brew.