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Sam Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

Sam Adams LongShot Grape Pale Ale

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A Fruit Beer brewed by
Boston Beer Company

Boston, Massachusetts USA

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Commercial Description:
Created by Samuel Adams Employee Lili Hess, Hawaii This is a very creative spin on a pale ale. As Lili describes it, "It's like you are drinking a pale ale after biting into a fresh green seedless grape." This delicate brew is light-bodied with unique sweet, yet dry flavors from the grapes. What a combination...

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 cking (712), North Canton, Ohio, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/59/20

Apr 7, 2008  
Poured a clear, vibrant dark copper color with a medium thick bright white head and stringy lacing. Weak aroma of buttery bread and caramel No hop presence or fruit hints, which is odd considering this is a grape pale ale. Mild and filling with an airy finish that comes across as rather empty. Neutral flavor of creamy, nutty malt. Some notes of caramel and bread with an offsetting butter taste. Where’s the hops!? Where’s the grapes!? All of the flavors I was expecting never showed themselves, the beer itself is decent but doesn’t reflect it’s name at all.

 doubleo (683), San Diego, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/513/20
Jul 26, 2008  
12oz bottle. Pours amber with a thin fizzy, white head. Smells malty and slight, sweet grapey. Tastes caramelly malty throughout, the grape flavor doesn’t kick in until the finish. Medium body, ok carbonation.


 redlem (1096), Illinois, USA
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/101/56/20
Jul 25, 2008  
Actually the homebrewers description put me in a negative frame of mind. Green grapes are crap, especially the seedless kind, they have no taste and serve the lemmings who go to the grocery store. The only good green grape is an unripe concord which is so sour it gives you a stomach-ache after a couple. Perhaps that beer would of been good but not this crap.


jcdsmack (20), Henderson, Nevada, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/56/20
Jul 17, 2008  
This is a terrible beer. Not so much because it taste really bad but because It won the longshot contest. my impression of this beer is like drinking a really week pale ale after somone has just spit their cheap blush wine into it. Just a really bad idea. I think the lady who created it must have some compromising photos of someone from Sam Adams. i’m afraid thi is an example of title 9 in the world of competitive brewing. It’s a shame to because the weizenbock that makes up the other half of the longshot six pack is really good.


 unclemike (258), Ft. Riley, Kansas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/513/20
Jul 15, 2008  
12oz bottle-pours a rich offwhite head with copper color. Aroma is caramel-medium malt, secondary earthy hops, light/medium fruit. Taste is balanced caramel-medium malt, earthy/spicey hops, light/medium fruit. OK/mild carbonation.


 Palidor19 (1207), Brandon, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/512/20
Jul 14, 2008  
I enjoy this beer, its got an English quality with a mild hint of grape at the end, still its got character.




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