Samuel Adams LongShot Weizenbock

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Firstly, I must say I love the Long Shot concept that Sam Adams came up with. SA continues to impress me with the quality and breadth of their products and their innovation. This brew clearly has the banana esters down. Doesn’t have any roasted malt aspect in the nose that you might expect from a Weizenbock. Murky blackish brown. Looks not too dissimilar to a black and tan, with the darker hues toward the top of the glass. Thin, creamyt tan head. You know, so often people describe weissbiers as having banana and clove in the aroma, and I always had trouble detecting the clove. Hey, I smoked clove cigarettes when I was a teen, so I should know what clove is. This is the first brew where I can distinctly TASTE clove. For that, and for an eminently drinkable and worthy representation of the weizenbock style, I salute and salud Rodney Kibzey. Excellent lace. Absolutely no flaws, lots of flavor and a pleasure to drink. I bought this beer at the suggestion of tennisjoel and he steered me the right direction. Well rated, but underrated IMO.

Bottle: Dirty, hazy brown with a nice creamy tan head. Wheat and spice make up the light aroma with bits of citrus. Taste brings in a little banana and a bit more clove. Rather smooth, balanced, and creamy. Not usually my favorite style, but this longshot was quite satisfying.

Sweet smell on the toss, has that typical and wonderful weizenbock smell, bullseye on the nose .... Great Head and proud german with socks and sandals lacing .... is very nice and full on the first sip... a damn fine example of the weizenbock genre!.... next time, just include one grape pale and the rest this beauty! ..great stuff!...

Pours a slightly hazy tan head. Aroma is yeasty, clove, banana, wheat, and bubble gum. Flavor is wheaty, caramel, clove, banana, bubble gum, and a bitter spicy finish.

Pours a five+ finger cream head that fades slowly to a thin layer leaving a good lace. Cloudy amber color. Good carbonation and medium bodied. Spicy wheat nose. Flavor is sweet wheat, cloves and spice, clean finish. $1.50 12oz bottle from Capitol Convenience Concord, NH.

12oz Bottle Pours out a hazy brown topped with a cream head. A nice aroma of malt and spice. Tast of clover spice and more malt. Very tasty. i would say that Mr. Kibzey should get a nice PAYDAY from the fine folks at The Boston Beer Company

This is an exciting beer for me since this guy is from my hometown of Lombard, IL! - a beer non-entity (until recently when a Rock Bottom (Yorktown) opened up. So its with pride and excitement that I celebrate one of the Lilac Village’s own making the big time with this brew. Nice looking cloudy brown with a medium head. Aroma is big, sweet, and inviting - lots of banana, clove, and rich wheat. Flavor is a bit sweet, a bit spicy - cloves and banana/dark fruit dominate. I’m also getting alot of real wheat here. Not my favorite W-bock, but a solid take on the style that I should grab more of before its gone.

The best out of the LongShot series this year (which isn’t saying much, since the grape pale ale pretty much sucked). Huge clove notes in the aroma, which parlayed into a nice brown sugar-banana’s foster thing. But the easiest aroma to get was cloves. Appearance is a dark brown, cloudy with a nice one-finger thick head with dissipated into a creamy 1/2" thick head that stayed nearly the entire duration. Flavor were cloves, dark fruits, spicy, and enough character to make me think this was more akin to a Belgian dubbel. A very enjoyable beer either way you slice it.