Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

Bottle. Saw this at the beer store and kinda wondered what on Earth they were thinking, but not one to flee responsibility I bought it, brought it home and avoided it for a couple of weeks. Pours an amber color with a couple fingers of head and an unseemly aroma of sweet white grape juice, citrusy pale ale scents and some bread-like malt. Flavor is acceptable, but wierd. Like a normal, mild and somewhat uninteresting micro-brew that someone made sweet by dumping a bunch of white grape juice into. Pretty sure I could live clean and easy without another one of these. I would guess that it was a fairly bleak year for the Longshot application pool if this made the cut... either that or they were going for the sweet and malty loving crowd.

Bottled. Beer is clear, medium-hued, strawberry-brown. Head is initially large, white, frothy. Rapidly and mostly diminishes.<P>The aroma is malty with moderate notes of slightly husky toasted grain, lighter note of cookie; Hoppy with a moderate herbal note; Yeasty with a light note of basement; Light note of fake grape candy flavor, tropical fruit, metallic trace.<P>The flavor is lightly sweet, moderately acidic (roundly sour), lightly bitter with a long, lightly bitter, lightly acidic finish. Metallic aftertaste in the pockets of the cheeks.<P>The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.<P>Don’t like the fake fruit note, don’t like the sickly acidic hump in the flavor.

Pours clear deep golden- coppery with a thin lasting head. Aroma is light citrusy and grassy hops slight cattiness, and green grapeskin, and catty white wine. Flavor si a bit sweet, light bitterness, green grapeskin astringency and roughness, with more white wine and some chaap sparkling wine- a bit of apple and acetaldehyde.

What in the hell were they thinking with this one. It reeks like a bottle of cheap white wine. The flavor is a too damned sweet white grape flavor. This beer barely manages to miss being repulsive, but that’s the best I can say for it.

Very crisp and refreshing, but not all that flavorful.

Aroma is sweet with a light hop scent. Color is a bright golden brown with good carbonation and thin head. Taste is thin and sweet. Stating with a light body it goes down with a fizzy feel. Finish comes in with a sweet malt flavor that is backed by a light hop flavor and mild bitterness. After taste has a dry sweetness that seems to has a very faint grape like taste to it. Its not bad, but not all that good. I am surprised that of all the brews entered into the Longshot contest that this was one best.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear light amber color with a medium sized beige head. The aroma has a hint of grapes, grains, and medium sweet malt. The flavor is medium sweet malt and grape juice. I see that it is classified as a fruit beer and am left wondering where the fruit is. Yes, I mentioned that it is there, but it is a small part of the flavor. This seems to be an average pale ale (at best) with a hint of fruit thrown in. I did this one first after seeing some posts so I have something to look forward to with the Weizenbock.

Pours a translucent golden amber with a n average bubbly off white head. Aroma of sweet malts, grains, some caramel, honey, some grapes and just the slightest touch of hops. Flavor of grape skins, honey, some caramel and bready notes, a touch of hop bitterness, on the dry side with a touch of sweetness. If this won the top spot in the Longshot Comp I have a feeling the original beer was a bit different then this.