Samuel Adams LongShot Double IPA

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Red amber color with a good sized, pillowy head. Fruity, spicy slightly musky aroma. Flavor is a load of citrus and spicy hops with the malt peeking through in the background. The malt comes through a bit more as it warms but it’s the hops that really make their presence known through to the finish.

This is a really well balanced IPA. It is almost as if west coast meets east coast. Good almost spicy hop presence that doesn’t overwhelm the malt flavor.

Pours light amber with an off white head. Aroma is bit citrusy spicy, body odor like centennial hop aroma. Flavor is also huge citrusy spicy hops, with lots of centennial coming through. Not bad.

Overall a pretty enjoyable beer! Didn’t get a lot of aroma...but I have a cold...so I bet it was there and I just can’t say. Looks good, Nice amber color, not hazy. Tastes great, I’m a fan of hops, and this does not disapoint.

Pours deep deep orange/amber with a nice citrus hop and malt aroma. Very bitter upfront and lasts. Thick malty backbone with a cloying malt or hop juice. Lots of simcoe or similar hops?

( 12oz bottle) Pours dark amber color, darker than expected. The head simply will NOT go away the entire time. It’s left a thick blanket of head atop the beer for a good 30 minutes until I finished it. Nose is nothing too special. The bittering hops are pleasant, and you can tell it has no real identifiable hop as they used 6 different varieties when brewing this so I’m not sure I liked it a lot, but decent and clean. Some malt is here too but not enough. Taste is really lacking. Very bitter both up front, and on the finish. The bitter on the finish lasted 30+ minutes after I hadn’t drank anything else. No malt to support the bitterness, and doesn’t seem well balanced. If you are a hardcore IPA drinker then maybe you’ll enjoy this but coming from a guy who only seems to enjoy the very best IPAs/DIPAs this isn’t great. This is by no means a Pliny clone as I’ve read elsewhere as it doesn’t smell, feel, or taste anything like PtE. A little under-carbonated and thick. I couldn’t drink more than one. Way too bitter that stayed with me a long time.

Bottle split with Dallas. This was the final sample of the evening so I don’t expect it to be very accurate. Pours a darker body then one would predict.. dark brown with a reddish hue, and minimum head. The taste is nothing horrible. However, this beer really cannot stack up to the other BIG DOUBLE IPAs out there. Flavor suggests notes of bitter hop, pine hop, and some alcohol bite. I’ll try this a third time to see if it falls or rises from its current total score (3).

Hazy orange-red pour with a sticky white head. The nose does have a bright orange and pine character although the hops do seem to be getting a little bit lost in this one as it ages. Grapefruity flavour with a fairly assertive resiny bitterness. A little bit of oxidized character. The malt is sweet but not cloying and it does back up the hoppiness pretty nicely. It’s lost a lot of the brighter aromatics, but it’s still a decent IIPA.