Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

This amber ale poured with a generous beige head and a floral aroma. Unfortunately it has very little taste other than a thin malt backbone and a slightly hoppy finish.

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,

Bottle. Pours a light copper color with a small beigh head. Aroma of grapes, grain, light citrus, and some grassy hops. Flavor is lightly sweet and malty with light caramel, grapes, citrus, and a touch of honey. Light bodied with a dry and fruity finish.

12 oz, bb Jul 2008. Clear, shiny orange-copper with a two-finger creamy head that lasts. Honey, molasses, earthy root vegetable, and crisp green herb aromas. Cinnamon-honey, grain, and light bubblegum are the front flavors, with later some toasty nut and caramel apple. Woody herbs and crisp apple on the finish. Near-medium body has sufficient drying for all the sweetness. Started with a little too much carbonation, but turned out to be a fairly smooth beer. A little much of the sweet and twangy flavors for me.

12 oz. bottle from Family Liquors, Homewood, IL. Not quite sure why this one was deemed necessary. Well, color is a little darker than average pale ale. Fluffy head like the top of a cloud. Maybe I shouldn’t be judging the smell, as I’ve been handling a projectile-pooping baby today, but I, too, detect some phenol in the grape portion. Taste really can’t settle into what it’s supposed to be. I think that, yeah, there’s some grape that undergone a dry finish, with no wine tannins. But as other raters have noted, there’s not much that’s distinguishable as the "pale ale" part of this recipe. There should be at least one strong hop in here to cut though the sweetness and bring in some contrast. Well, let’s try Rodney’s weizenbock next time I’m here…

A wierd and boring fruit beer. Aroma was champagne-like with mostly light fruit. Pour was a medium amber with a thin off white film for a head. Taste was pretty weak. A strong white grape flavor with not much else. The flavor leaves 2 seconds after the swallow. Not full and not lasting.

Pour is a amber with a large white head. Aroma is some grainy malts mixed with a bit of citrus fruit. Flavor is more of the grainy malts and that’s about it. No real fruit taste and the label does say grape but darn if i can find any in this. Nothing really great in this one. Probably the worst of any of the Longshot beers i have had.

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.