Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

Pours a clear light amber with a smallish head. Aroma is caramel and grass. Tingles on the tounge, dry, light sweetness. Don’t really get any grape.

(Bottle) Pours a transparent copper body with a small white head. Aroma of medicinal, grass, light citrus, and caramel. Flavor of nuts, caramel, grassy hops, and a hint of white grapes.

Pours orange-brown, with a fine, moderate, white head. Aroma is rather sweet and lightly hoppy. Almost artificially so. Flavor is thin and sweet. Nothing really grapy about it. Light mouth feel. Pretty limp offering.

I’m not sure the grape quotient melds very well to the beer’s malty sweet qualities or the aromatic hops that appear. The sweetness of the grapes and malts equal too much sweetness. I read a forum post on not adding hops to cider and I see why. Some fruits don’t mix very well with beer. My blackberry wheat does kick this beer’s ass though IMHO. The body of this beer is decently carbonated and it has a nice feel which kind of makes up for its odd flavors. I hope this isn’t what the hop shortage will bring!

12oz bottle. Filtered golden-amber color with a nice head. Aroma is very mild and faint. The taste is malty, but with a white grape fruit juice taste awkwardly thrown in the mix. Maple syrup probably takes away any of the sparkling and tangy flavors you’d hope to find in a fruit beer. Tolerable, but pretty disappointing.

Not quite like the description, little grape attributes. Clear orange in color. Aroma is less sweet than expected but it does have some honey in the background of my olfactory. Good carbonation on the palate. Taste lacks any sweetness or fruitiness that may be indicated on the label. Overall a somewhat mild and slightly fruity ale but certainly not enough fruit in there to classify this as a fruit beer. Above average in enjoyability as far as fruit beers go. Failrly strong alky bite even tho none is listed here, I’d say about 6%. Mild medicine bitter malty linger that hangs for a while.

Bottle and served in standard pint glass: Clean coppery hue with a fizzy head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of caramel and bready grains, light white grapes, some floral esters and yeasty. The taste is toasted malt and some grape and currant in support. A lack of much bitterness hurts the palate depth. The mouth feel is lively and thin. Overall this is a weak brew from the nose all the way to the aftertaste.

12 oz. bottle, part of Longshot Six Pack, from BevMo LaJolla. Pours bright, clear orangey amber with a smallish head the diminished quickly. Predominantly toasty malt aroma with light fruity and floral notes and a bit of perfume. Grainy malts in the flavor, with zesty, bitter grape and hop notes, along with an interesting umami undertone near the finish. Light to medium body and crispy carbonation.