Samuel Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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

By George, this aint bad. If I was a sweet beer kinda guy I think I would love it. It Pours a nice pale golden color. With a little white head. The taste reminds me of Raison D’ etre.

Aroma of light malt, some good hops, and a trace of fruit, which I can’t really say is grape? Amber, small custard head. Taste has a nice malty start, a good hop bite. Light bodied, balanced, easy drinking. Good stuff. Thanks Torontoblue.

Pours a nice copper kettle color with a short lasting head. No lacing. Smells like those orange "circus peanut" marshmellows you ate as a kid. Light and sweet, but not overly so. Maple syrup is very detectable in both the flavor and consistency. Little after-taste. This is unique, but not great. Unusual, but not a freak. I recommend you try it, but I doubt you’ll make it a regular.

12oz bottle poured into a Sam Adams special glass. SALGPA pours copper and malty looking with a medium-sized head that settles quickly. The aroma is malty with hints of honey and grape. Maybe the grape aroma is self-inflicted because of anticipation. I taste a decent malty beginning. It is heavy on the honey. The swallow is dominated by a very nice biscuit flavor. If the biscuit flavor came in earlier this beer would be better. All in all this is a decent beer but I really don’t taste grape. This may be a fruit beer in name but not flavor.

Name: Longshot Grape Pale Ale
Date: 05/10/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear amber, wispy dirty white head, sudsy lace,
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma with a winey grape character, light floral hops,
Body: creamy body,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, grape character adds additional winey sweetness, light hops for balance, light bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

A light amber apperance with a moderate white head. A very nice looking beer but that really is the highlight of this beer. The aroma contains hints of citrus as well as the obvious grapes and some caramel. This one is rather bland with some grapes and citrus in the flavor. Interesting idea but not executed well. Overall boring but ok.

This fruit beer pours a medium orange gold color from a 12 oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head, with a quickly dissipating head. Aroma is malty, some grape and grain. Medium bodied fruit beer. The malts are bready and sweet. The hops are floral and earthy. The grape flavors are more pronounced at the finish, there also seems to be a bit of oakiness as well. Touch of diacetyl as well. Kind of an interesting beer, you can definitely see and taste the homebrew origins in this one. Not quite sure it works, but it is interesting and glad that Boston Beer Company goes out n a limb, sort of, to make beers like this. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter with a hint of grape skin.

Slightly hazy straw body, thin-medium off-white head. Hoppy nose, earthy and herbal, with light grape notes. Grassy body with grapeskin elements that are distinctive not so much in the flavor as in the wispy tartness in the mouthfeel. Backdrop of light, bready malts. Deceptively sweet and rich, despite the thin body, in part likely due to the addition of maple syrup. The carbonation is tight, almost in the vein of a sparkling juice. A few sips is enough.