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Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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3012.74/5.02.74/5.0Special-48.4Flute
Commercial Description:
Created by Samuel Adams Employee Lili Hess, Hawaii This is a very creative spin on a pale ale. As Lili describes it, "It’s like you are drinking a pale ale after biting into a fresh green seedless grape." This delicate brew is light-bodied with unique sweet, yet dry flavors from the grapes. What a combination...
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 HighlanderOne (541), Somewherein, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Apr 19, 2008  
Poured from bottle 4/2008. More malt than hops in the aroma, with a bit of gas. Bronze with thin lacing head, Seems to equal part hops, malt and grape - and it’s not a bad combo. Maple syrup noticed more as a woody flavor in the aftertaste - not sweet. Mellows at the finish. Well done and unique.


 brentfeesh (1037), Gadsden, Alabama, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/102/510/20
Apr 17, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Amber honey pour. Sweet aroma that has both malt caramel and fruit with is very believable as grape. The flavor is a blend of fruit beer, apple cider and IPA. Strange and I don’t care for it. The combo of flavors just don’t work for me. The bitter does not mesh well with the grape…Yuk. Medium creamy semi-sticky mouth feel that adds to the gross factor. I’ll not drink it again.


philbertk (34), Seattle, Washington, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/518/20
Apr 17, 2008  
Dense rich lacy white head.Clear thin bright amber color.Mild white grape floral hop front..Creamy bisquit caramel doughy mild sweet maple hint smooth body.Cloying malt, smooth mellow hop clean satisfying end.Smooth tasty grape notes.


 carboloader (319), Houston, Texas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 16, 2008  
Pours orange-amber with quickly dissipating head. Generic aroma of corn or hay. Taste is interesting with a carbonation bite at first, and then sweet malt. It tastes like a generic ale with some grape juice dripped in. Interesting, but not great, and not a session beer to repeat several times -- it seems too sweet to me.


 jsquire (2098), St. Marys, Ohio, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Apr 16, 2008  
Amber colored beer with a frothy off white head. Light sweet nose that I will say has green grape in it only because of the name of the beer. Boy, I just don’t get a lot of "fresh green seedless grape" in this. Sweet beer with light maltiness, breadiness, and a tart fruitiness that I guess could be grape. It seems like a pretty generic Pale Ale, with some non-descript fruit to it.


 emacgee (1864), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/513/20
Apr 16, 2008  
Shared this with poor Turd. Poured a decent looking brew. Copper amber with a one finger frothy offwhite head. Doesn’t look special but doesn’t look bad. Then I smelled it...smelled bad. On a related note it tasted bad as well. The aroma was grassy, hay, sweet, caramel, sweet fruit. The flavor was a little offensive and astringent, grassy, cornish, sweet fruity element, maybe a little bitter. Not too hot,


 TURDFERGUSON (1601), Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 16, 2008  
Just drank this swill. This is a decent bitter pale with some grape juice added. Sorry I called it swill, but It just did not taste very good. Sweet malts, light bitterness, grape sweetness. meh.


 kmeves (1080), Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/514/20
Apr 13, 2008  
Pours a clear copper with a fizzy head and spotty lace. Aroma is lightly sweet caramel, bready grains, grapes and yeasty. Flavor is toasted malt with some grape and dark fruit. Thin mouth feel, sweet fruity finish. I must say this was better than I was expecting.



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