Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

Very mild, fresh ale aroma. Clear honey-ale color. Tastes light, very easy to drink, as easy as a light beer. Only the slightest of a grape taste, keeping the light ale-beer taste is the primary flavor. The grape is ao faint it tastes almost more like apple. Seems to me like a great summer beer alternative to a citrusy-hop summber beer. This was very nice and i only with these Longshots where perminant beer selections.

2/16/2008: Sam Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale by Lili Hess has a clear, golden color with a dense and creamy light yellow head that leaves good lacing. The aroma hs some pale malt and seems slightly grainy but the malty sweetness is definitely noticeable. The flavor has a nice combination of doughy malt, sweet syrup, hints of banana and caramel, mild floral hops, and plenty of white grape flavor and sweetness. The finish is crisp and slightly dry. This beer has a medium body and is really smooth. It has a slick texture and glides right down. Overall this beer is tasty and refreshing. The grape flavor is definitely prominent (this beer tastes a lot like white grape juice at first). This is an interesting brew, but it needs more hop flavor and bitterness to really classify it as a Pale Ale...

Congrats to Ms. Hess! This is a unique beer that is refreshing and fun to drink. Keep brewing!

12 fl. oz. bottle (?% ABV; Enjoy before July 2008) from the 2007 LongShot 6-pack. Purchased at Party Town in Bellevue, Kentucky. Rating: 6/4/7/3/14=3.4.

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.

Clear copperish amber with minimal head. Smells sweet and syrupy with apple and grape; yeasty and caramel/toffee (ala british pale ale) undertones. No hops. Not sure I get any more grape or any extra fruit in the flavor than I would a British pale ale. Very estery, banana, apple, pear and maybe some rum notes. No hops. Not a bad British Pale Ale, if you like that sort of thing.

Bottle. Aroma seems a bit thin, not that unpleasant, although also nothing really of note other than an average pale ale, certainly nothing that makes you hurry off to your first sip. Flavor perfectly refreshing if not overwhelming, there is grape there, sour green grape, and it was my favorite part of the beer, so I really wish it was there more (as in if it was there more, I could see this becoming an item of regular consumption for me, hint hint). I thought the mouthfeel was quite solid overall, despite initial impressions that it might be weak. Sure, it’s not a GREAT beer, and it’s companion weizenbock is superior, but I strongly disagree with the sub-3 rating of this brew.

Poured a honey color with a medium white head. Aromas of malts and grapes. Taste was very sweet with less grape flavor than I expected. A few more hops would have added a lot to the taste. There was virtually no aftertaste as a result. Overall definitely worth a try.

Bottle - pours a nice copper color with faint grape hints in the aroma. Light bodied and almost refreshing. With definite hints of grape in the flavor. Not bad at all.

Very crisp and refreshing, but not all that flavorful.