Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

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.

This is pretty underwhelming. Pours copper with a pillow beige head. The aroma has muddied malt, odd fruit that doesn’t seem like grape, dust and some maple syrup. Medium crisp body at first then a syrupy slickness that seems odd for something with this light of a body. The taste is strange with maple syrup taking center stage. There is also some caramel malt and a hint of spice. The finish has some phenolic spice. This is interesting in description and may be okay as a homebrew fresh as can be, but as a mass market beer this doesn’t work for me at all. It sounded like it might be interesting, but didn’t deliver.

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.

Poured a clear yellow-gold with a small head. Aroma is a bit corny...no grape at all. Flavor is not at all like biting into a grape. More like a sweet ale with some musty notes. Not offensive but really pretty mediocre.

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!

Certainly a different take on Pale Ale. Didn’t quite hit the Pale Ale mark nor was the grape flavor enough to get that fruit beer feeling. Refreshing, though, just a bit too light-bodied for my taste.

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.

Pours a clean amber color with hardly any head. Aroma is very sweet anf fruity. Taste is thick sticky and very sweet.