Samuel Adams LongShot Weizenbock

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

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.

Bottle. Pours a dark hazy brown with a beigh head. Aroma of banana, clove, light caramel, wheat, and notes of dark fruit. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth. Flavor is a wheaty dark malt, clove, banana, toffee notes, fruit and a bit of spice with a low bitterness. Good brew

The color was murky brown. The head was creamy and off-white. The aroma was spice, dark frew, and sweet. The flavor was spice, sweet, and banana. The palate was medium-bodied. The finish was warm.

Sam Adams LongShot Weizenbock is a cloudy brown lager with a thin, leathery beige head with some oily bubbles. It leaves good lacing. It has a burly, grainy aroma that’s the slightest bit sweet. There are grassy hops and a woody spice in the nose. It’s pretty full bodied; fluffy, crunchy on the palate. It’s the slightest bit sweet on the tongue. There is a definite prune flavor. The bitterness is dark chocolate and some kind of berry. It’s like a brownie with gravy on it. Not for the faint of heart. This will put hair on your chest. Tastes rather like an ale.

Pours a cloudy, dark root beer brown with a sizable, dense, creamy beige head that laces nicely. The nose is of cloves, candy sugar, dark fruit, light banana and a touch of alcohol. Nice. Medium-bodied and silky, the palate finishes moderately spicy and surprisingly warming. A round wheat body is backed by notes of dark fruit, cloves, pepper, banana and alcohol. While this is one of the better Sam Adams brews that I’ve tried, I have an aversion to heavily spiced beers. This one started really nicely, but, as I approached the bottom of the glass, it began to grate on me a bit with its overt spiciness. I generally like the fruity and normally subtle esters that come with German weissbier yeast, but this tastes as though they’ve actually added spices to the recipe. As it is it’s pretty good, but if the spiciness were toned down a bit, I’d have enjoyed it even more.

Brown with a nice off-white head. aroma is of fresh ripe bananas with a hint of clove. Taste is of banana and clove as well with a slight hop bitterness. I tasted a hint of root beer in the taste as well...call me crazy. Creamy mouthfeel with a medium body.

Love the look and smell! Not that big of a fan of strong beers. However this one is just right, imo. Good job Rodney.

Got this as West Lakeview chicago. the guy was there who made the beer. it was good. pours dark brown color. small white head. nice dark fruit flavors.