Samuel Adams LongShot Weizenbock

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

Pours a brown color with a tan head. Aroma is of caramel malts, dark fruits, chocolate, clove, banana, and some wheat. Flavor is sweet up front with the dark fruits, clove, banana, and caramel malts. Has a nice dry finish with a lingering flavor. My favorite of the Longshots of the last 2 years.

Cloudy copper color. Smell of banana nut bread, caramel, hops, malt and spice. Taste of hops, bananas, spice, nuts, dark fruit and bread/yeast.

This pours a dark cloudy reddish brown with dark brown and even some darker stretches along the sides of the glass, has a good size off-white and tan head that recedes a bit, there is some creamy tan lacing left on the glass, big ripe banana and unsweetened dried fruit aromas, along with some dark malt and bread, a little bit of pepper, I got a faint phenol smoke fragrance here and there, flavor of dark bread, dark fruit and dark sugar sweetness, I could feel just a touch of the alcohol warmth on the palate, has a good full mouth feel, a very good tasty wheat beer, S.A. should market this as a regular offering.

12 oz, bb July 2008. Nearly opaque copper-chestnut with a three finger head that lasts and laces well. Aroma is spicy wheat, clove, banana-raisin bread, slight bubblegum and alcohol. Thankfully, the flavor has all the same components, plus toasted nut and slight chocolate. Medium-heavy body is smooth with some tongue tingle, and nice dryness on the finish. Cheers and well done, Rodney!

This is what every homebrewer should shoot for when trying to create the perfect beer. Great color, lacing, aroma and wonderful fruit and clove flavor with a drying finish. The Bavarians would be very proud, Rodney! Nice job!

Thought this one was really great. Dark and muddy, and has lots of banana in the taste profile. Lots of banana, and cloves and maybe some peppermint. Very elegant flavor profile. To those complaining about the alcohol: get over it, this is a weizenbock. I thought this was fantastic and that SA should take it into production.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy dark brown with a medium frothy light tan head. The aroma is clove and bananas. Good lacing on the glass. The taste is a very sweet malt with banana and brown sugar. A good Weizen Bock from Sam Adams.

Appearances can be deceiving. This relatively unattractive hazy dark brew smells and tastes like a masterful heffeweizen about twenty shades paler. On the nose banana, coriander and warm yeast dominate. Malty notes are noticeably absent from such dark a brew. Alcohol is also noticeable. Tasting, this beer has ample warm coriander, with clove and yeast. Decent level of malt balance this excellent drink. Near perfect body. Impressive showing from an oft-disappointing franchise.