Longshot Honey B's Lavender Ale
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Series Out of Production|
Score
6.54
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Once Upon a Vine South on 04/30/2011. Clear golden body with a small fizzy white head. Sweet lavender and perfumy aroma. Sweet lavender, perfumy and grainy flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
9th June 2011
Very slight haze on this gold beer, short lived white head. Nice nose of orange citrus and mild lavender. Head has mild sherbet lavender! Semi crisp palate. Semi sweet mild orange citrus, well balanced with perfumed lavender. Semi dry finish. Refreshing and interesting.
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Bottle @ Timbers, Denver. Thanks to Aaron for this one. Pours golden with a creamy white head, leaving nixce lacings. Aroma of malt, honey, lavander, spices, light citrusly hops. Taste is malty, honey and levander is much stronger here than aroma, spicy, citrus. Medium body, lively carbonation. 080312
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Lavender, heather, and lemon aroma. Golden yellow color with small head. Slightly sweet lemon, lavender, malt and moderately bitter herbal hops flavor. Pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle from Pick’s poured into a shaker. Pours a clear pale yellow with a small bit of white head. Aroma of lavender and malt. Taste is lightly bitter and lightly sweet. You can taste the lavender in there. Medium bodied with a slick texture. Lively carbonation and a nice finish. Overall, not bad. Something I would drink again if it was offered to me.
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Bottle. If I didn’t have notes on Pliny Elder to add, I should’ve made this series my 2300th beer. Well, if another beer further down the list gets deleted, this will stand in. Ya notice how the employee beers in the Longshot are usually the weird fruit and flower stuff? Here’s one now. And somehow, I thought this should be poured into a wheat glass. Where it kicks up a nice big head of foam over a bright gold beer body. Smell is of lavender, not unlike the Stillwater "of Love & Regret" I ticked yesterday. Then some pale ale malt behind it. Lavender has thinned out in the taste, though. It’s the last month on the "enjoy by" notch, and this is already turning a bit phenolic. Blame it more on the honey, perhaps. There is a bit of hop coming through, more English or a base bittering hop. I remember at the tasting for the LongShot release, I found the beer to be very flowery, and I should’ve rated it then. Oh, well. If you’re hoarding any of this, my advice is to drink it now.
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Bottle. Pours a medium golden with not much of a head at all. Smells of lavender (floral), some fruit, and malt. Oh this is interesting. Tastes of light grasses, flowers, slight pepper. Definitely interesting. Do I love it? No... but I think this is worth trying again!
Drake (22940) reviewed Longshot Honey B's Lavender Ale from Samuel Adams 14 years ago
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12 ounce bottle opened 4/11/11. Pours a clear pale golden color with a medium sized fizzy white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of honey, lavender and grainy malts. The taste is fairly strong lavender notes, caramel malts, honey and a bitter almost metallic hop note. Medium bodied.
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Purchased at Hyde Park Wine & Spirits in Cincinnati, OH; enjoyed on a lazy Sunday nursing my mosquito bites the day after a friend’s wedding. Appearance a cloudy gold with a prominent, frothy white head, tiny carbonation bubbles rising to the top. Aroma very floral and lightly soapy, I guess that comes from the lavender pedals, citrus hops, small touch of honey, and a small presence of malt, pretty nice overall. Taste is rather sweet, the honey comes out more in the mix, above average carbonation. It definitely tastes floral too, not too much where it feels like you need to pluck the pedals from in between your teeth, but it’s noticeably in the balance; a bit of spice in the back end. I can’t say I’m a fan of it, definitely unique, probably wouldn’t purchase again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
aromatic like a bouquet of flowers...taste is pretty similar, definitely different to most beers that i have, some hope spiciness combines with the sweetness of the lavender, more of a lavender scent and flavor than i thought there was going to be. a nice beer for a once off, but i wouldnt be able to have more than that without getting really sick of it.