Longshot Grape Pale Ale
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer - Grape Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
5.72
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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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bb (18607) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Copper beer with a nice cream colored head. Malt and light grape aroma. Musty malt flavor with light fruitiness and light earth. Medium bodied. Malty, grape, musty, earth all lingering.
Drake (22940) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Sam’s Quik Stop in Durham. Pours brown-ish read with a medium sized head. Disappears quickly but leaves a nice lacing. Strong aroma of cinnamon and other spices, with a hint of maple. Taste is sweet with some graininess and a dry finish. Honey/maple comes through on the aftertaste, Kind of a thick feel. Better than your average Sam Adams.
jcwattsrugger (14801) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
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.
bhensonb (22726) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Interesting fruit aroma with some caramel malt backing. Beautiful copper/amber color with a white ring for head. Medium body with fizzy/creamy carbonation. Flavor is a bit papery, and arguably a bit vinous. There could be fruit of a grapey sort. There is certainly enough hop to balance the sweet. It’s an interestingly different "pale ale". I wouldn’t drink it constantly, but it is something that would be good every so often.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off white head. The aroma is a light hop and sweet malt. The taste is a sweet malt with caramel and citrus. A decent fruit beer from Sam Adams.
Frothingslosh (19444) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vivid amber color with a large yellow-white head. The aroma was tangy and sweet grape. The flavor was sweet and sugary initially with noted grape flavors and turned oddly dry towards the finish. Yep it is grape, but I don’t get the pale ale part as there is no hop presence whatesoever. I can not say it is a disappointment only because I did not expect it to be any good.
mrbunn (3068) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Saw this at the beer store and kinda wondered what on Earth they were thinking, but not one to flee responsibility I bought it, brought it home and avoided it for a couple of weeks. Pours an amber color with a couple fingers of head and an unseemly aroma of sweet white grape juice, citrusy pale ale scents and some bread-like malt. Flavor is acceptable, but wierd. Like a normal, mild and somewhat uninteresting micro-brew that someone made sweet by dumping a bunch of white grape juice into. Pretty sure I could live clean and easy without another one of these. I would guess that it was a fairly bleak year for the Longshot application pool if this made the cut... either that or they were going for the sweet and malty loving crowd.
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle. Filtered golden-amber color with a nice head. Aroma is very mild and faint. The taste is malty, but with a white grape fruit juice taste awkwardly thrown in the mix. Maple syrup probably takes away any of the sparkling and tangy flavors you’d hope to find in a fruit beer. Tolerable, but pretty disappointing.
cheap (9607) reviewed Longshot Grape Pale Ale from Samuel Adams 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Not quite like the description, little grape attributes. Clear orange in color. Aroma is less sweet than expected but it does have some honey in the background of my olfactory. Good carbonation on the palate. Taste lacks any sweetness or fruitiness that may be indicated on the label. Overall a somewhat mild and slightly fruity ale but certainly not enough fruit in there to classify this as a fruit beer. Above average in enjoyability as far as fruit beers go. Failrly strong alky bite even tho none is listed here, I’d say about 6%. Mild medicine bitter malty linger that hangs for a while.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
12 oz. bottle from Family Liquors, Homewood, IL. Not quite sure why this one was deemed necessary. Well, color is a little darker than average pale ale. Fluffy head like the top of a cloud. Maybe I shouldn’t be judging the smell, as I’ve been handling a projectile-pooping baby today, but I, too, detect some phenol in the grape portion. Taste really can’t settle into what it’s supposed to be. I think that, yeah, there’s some grape that undergone a dry finish, with no wine tannins. But as other raters have noted, there’s not much that’s distinguishable as the "pale ale" part of this recipe. There should be at least one strong hop in here to cut though the sweetness and bring in some contrast. Well, let’s try Rodney’s weizenbock next time I’m here…