Samuel Adams LongShot Boysenberry Wheat

Formerly brewed at Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Boston, Massachusetts USA

One of the best, if not the best, fruit flavored beers I’ve ever had. A natural berry taste perfectly balanced.

The aroma on this is fantastic; one of the best I’ve ever smelled. a great sweet/sour taste hit you at the back of the mouth if you breathe right, as this is a very aromatically driven beer.

bottle from Siciliano’s Market. Very very delicious and fantastic beer. Golden color, creamy white head, smooth bubbly palate, immediate sweet fruity berry flavor, taste of crisp ceral wheat malts, fresh boysenberry flavor, light sugary sweetness finish, small citrusy finish. Amazing. Will have to buy fresh again soon!!....second bottle reminded me of froot loops...a bit. which might be an ugly description for some, but I like. (Light froot loops. heh)

This offering from Sam Adams comes from the Longshot competition put out by SA which was a great idea. The body pours a cloudy dark gold on top with a slight honey colored botttom. The head is strong and never waivers from this offering which is fluffly and white. The aroma is boysenberry, wheat, sour fruit, candy, delicious and summery aroma. The feel on the palate is light and carbonated, the taste is very sweet, fruity, almost juice like in quality followed by just enough bitterness to balance that out but still on the sweet side. The finish is so smooth I could easily have a 6-pack of this I hope SA releases this in 6-packs for the summer cause this would be in my fridge all summer. This is my first offering from this longshot 6-pack and if this is any indication of whats to come then bring it on!

Has an aroma of vanilla and raspberry. This is by far my favorite of the longshots this year. So tasty and flavorful, this beer makes me happy to be an american.

Put me in the corner that loves this one. It isn’t often that a new beer excites me, but this one wowed me. The aroma should be used as a benchmark for fruit beers (or any beer, for that matter). I could sniff this all day long. The pour is hazy dark straw colored with a fluffy 2-finger whitish head. The aroma, my God, the aroma is strong boysenberry, perfumy florals, and pale malt. Amazing. The taste is freshly picked boysenberries, plump full of water and with maximum sweetness, plus some hopcitrus and pale malt that balance the berries nicely. Complex, pretty rich palate, that left me wanting more and more. I hope this becomes a regular beer for SA.

From a 12 oz. distinctive embossed bottle with a notched freshness date along the left side of front label, a blurb on the back label, sampled at cellar temperature in a pint glass. Poured a hazy orangey golden with a frothy, rocky, bubbly topped white head, good retention, small amount of laced sticking. Big tart berry aroma with powdery graininess, a light whiff of cereal, very fresh smelling. Good even carbonation and a crisp, dryish, velvety smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. From the aroma I worried that this was going to be a berry bomb, but thankfully it’s not, quite balanced, a good wheaty graininess, softly tart berries, citrus hops that add a nice sourness to the tart sweetness, and a dryish grainy finish with the berries lingering in the palate. Normally I’m not a fan of fruit beers, but this has a balanced taste and creamy body, well done, highly quaffable.

Pours a beautiful frothy white head, which collapses fairly fast. Very cloudy golden color. The aroma is amazing! And the taste is pretty good too. You get a mouth full of boysenberries when you start drinking. No bitterness when you’re drinking it. Pleasing LIGHT hoppiness on your tongue as an aftertaste. Its more of a fruit beer unless you treat it like a wheat beer and swirl a bittle beer in the bottle and then pour the hefe yeast into the glass. Then its not as fruity in the taste, and you get a bit of the yeast in the mouth, plus its a heavier mouthfeel. Too bad they don’t sell this as a six-pack by itself. James Spencer (Basic Brewing podcast) interviewed the dude that made this recipe. He’s an employee of Sam Adams. Anyways, its an EXTRACT recipe!!