Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

2-16-08 bottle.
Clear amber color with no real head. Smells a bit doughy and malty (not much grape at all). Very pale lager reminiscent. Flavor is a bit strange. Nothing that screams, or even whispers, grape. Watery and thin overall. Sweet flavor but just too thin for me.

Poured a clear, vibrant dark copper color with a medium thick bright white head and stringy lacing. Weak aroma of buttery bread and caramel No hop presence or fruit hints, which is odd considering this is a grape pale ale. Mild and filling with an airy finish that comes across as rather empty. Neutral flavor of creamy, nutty malt. Some notes of caramel and bread with an offsetting butter taste. Where’s the hops!? Where’s the grapes!? All of the flavors I was expecting never showed themselves, the beer itself is decent but doesn’t reflect it’s name at all.

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.

While I was staining my house I was thinking of the refreshing grape pale ale I’ll have at the end would be soooo good. I ended up being alittle dissapointed. I did not really smell or taste much grape at all. It’s and average to mOK pale ale and that’s all.

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of caramel, very slight floral hop aroma, and some sweetness. Flavor is pretty sweet with caramel and fruit. Dry finish but not much hop character. It’s present but not very strong at all.

Not bad. Pours clear lighter gold with a big white head. Caramel malt and white grapes in the nose. Not a bad taste, very light. Metallic taste with bitter malt and sweet grapes. Worth trying.

didnt finish this one...dark amber pour..small white head..aroma of grape and honey..taste of grape, biscuit, bread, and grass...thin, unpleasant mouthfeel

A light amber pour with a good 1 inch head, that’s very foamy. Nice malt, aroma with a hint of sugar and fruity sweetness.Complex flavor, of malt, oatmeal, sugar, fruit, and fruit peel. Not too overwhelming though. The grape tast is slight, very slight. The head diminishes quickly and the brew leaves some suds on the walls of the glass. The grape citrus and dryness comes through on the finish as the glass draws down.