Longshot Derf's Secret Alt
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Series Out of Production|
Score
6.60
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Fred wanted to go big or go home with his homebrew and decided to brew a kicked up Sticke Alt. This full-bodied ale has a big, malty character balanced by subtle orange and grapefruit notes from the hops. With a light amber color, this brew has a sweet finish.
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jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Longshot Derf's Secret Alt from Samuel Adams 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Rich deep brown coloured body with a hint of toffee, ruby and amber tints and a thinnish tan head. Aroma of alcohol, sugars, caramel, yeast, graham crackers and a bit of pit fruit - nice. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong toasted malt flavour up front with a big metallic bitterness, some caramel, a little yeast and a strong alcohol warmth at the end. Aftertaste shows a lot of complexity with pit fruits, caramel, toasted malt and a bit of spices at the end, but perhaps a bit too much depth and pungency with metal showing through. Overall, a good and relatively complex beer with a solid flavour profile and a good representation of the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 01-August-2012 for US$8.99/6 pack, sampled at home in Washington on 30-April-2013.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pours dark hazy brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is very nutty with slight phenolic boozyness. Flavor is big and rich bread malts, lots of caramel and toast with a sweet finish.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Longshot Derf's Secret Alt from Samuel Adams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Big Top Beverage Mart... variety case: Pours a reddish brown with a tan head. Aroma is Eastern European marinated fruits... kind of doppelbockish. Body is ridiculously heavy. Taste is rather sweet. Finish is slightly hoppy and bitter. Lots of fruitiness. This is a hard one to drink. I wish I only had one these rather than 8. Not my thing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12 oz bottle. Pours clear amber with a medium beige head with decent retention. Aroma is bready, caramelly--all malt. Tastes like a real German altbier. It’s malty sweet and a bit meaty. Mouthfeel is syrupy, a bit watery maybe. Well-crafted, but this isn’t a favorite style of mine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 oz bottle. Pours on the dark side of amber, clear with an off-white head. Ripe red apple and pear aroma, raisin and molasses hints. Nice full palate, tart apple and caramel with lots of citrusy orange, raisin, hinting at roastiness. Mmm. Very satisfying beer.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Longshot Derf's Secret Alt from Samuel Adams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle. Unfiltered burgundy-brown. Foamy beige glass-lacing head, Sweetish brown chocolate and caramel aroma. Sort of an odd style, big, but not too overwhelming. Very malt centered, and while there is a pinch of hop character, it’s still very sweet. A touch one-dimensional, not a beer I’d really want a sixpack of.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Poured into a .3 l Trumer Pils Stange glass, it kicks up a lot of brownish foam. Big malty smell, in fact a Malt-O-Meal smell, right under the cap. Deep brown color, but till well-filtered. Smell from foamy glass continues creamy, rich caramel malt notes. Foam takes a long time to subside, but of course, as it does, I’m feeding it more beer. Taste is big on those caramel malts, with a notes of chocolate, too. And a major thread of molasses. Still, the mouthfeel is rather thin. Perhaps the foam and extra malt/alcohol are holding down the fizziness. Warming alcohol nose as the glass tilts further to the perpendicular. I don’t get to a lot of sticke alts, but I believe this one actually takes the style up a notch.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Longshot Derf's Secret Alt from Samuel Adams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This beer is a clear dark copper-brown color with a medium compact off-white head that diminishes steadily. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel and candy. Medium-bodied with flavors of roasted malt, anise, mild hops and a touch of citrus. The finish is sweet caramel malt with a lightly bitter hops. Above average overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bread-like malt and alcohol on the nose. Clear chestnut with a tan head full of bubbles and remaining long. Lots of alcohol on the nose pretty much overwhelms the malt. Thin mouthfeel upfront follows through to some medium yeast mouthfeel at mid-palate. Alcohol and hops present at the finish. Pretty disjointed, mostly due to the alcohol.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Longshot Derf's Secret Alt from Samuel Adams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle pours a nice clear amber with deep red ruby hues and thin light colored mocha head of foam. The aroma offers up a mix of red apple, earthy dates and cherries as well as some pears, honey and a dab of caramel. The taste carries the same cherry to red apple to earthy date fruitiness as the nose but drops in a tasty amount of caramel that seems to turn into chocolate and then back to caramel again into the finish with hints of roasted maltiness here and there. This offers up a nice mix of flavors.