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 - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hmmm, after having SAVOR Flowers, this one seems suprisingly like it. Not that you can’t have two flower beers released in the same year, but wow the nose seems exactly the same. Flowers, touch of vanilla, honey notes. No alcohol notes like SF.
It’s a orange, copper color, with a foamy white head - keeps small head for quite some time. This one might not sound or be that pleasant for many people out there.
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12oz bottle pours clear deep gold with white head. The aroma first seems like sweet tart candy dust and then a deeper pull reveals some grainy malts and honey like sweetness. The taste begins a touch spicy with hops and then quickly pulls itself toward faint lavender notes, honey sweetness, some malt graininess and a fairly firm amount of bitter spicy hops. Into the finish it picks up a wheated malt type note. It stays refreshingly out of the over-sweet danger zone.
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Clear gold pour, soapy, lasting head - smells and tastes like herbal tea with a bit of honey added - nothing particularly standout, but clean, semi-dry and refreshing - herbal bitterness adds a much needed crispness on the tail end - it’s okay.
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Bottle pours gold with thin white head. Very sweet and fruity aroma and flavor floral and sweet throughout.
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12 oz bottle a gift from Kiapepito and Enniskillen from BevMo Salinas. Nose is heavy lavender with some background wheaty fruit notes. Clear yellow orange with a medium pale yellow head. Flavor is spicy with lavender and mild bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from michael-pollack. Pours orange gold with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is floral with a citric kick. Near med body. Flavor is very floral - lavender it is. There’s a sort of honey after thought. It has a sweet undertone but bitter wins. Very unusual.
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12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear, pale gold with a thin, white head. The aroma is honey, caramel, orange peels, coriander, and a faint floral hint. The flavor is very sweet, with a tart and sweet middle, and a mildly bitter finish. The palate is light and creamy, fair carbonation, and a slick and clean finish. The aftertaste is faint citrus tartness and bitterness. Overall, a surprisingly good beer. The flavors work well together, producing a delicious, drinkable, yet complex drink.
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So this honey brew ain’t all that bad, a surprisingly drinkable sweet beer from Sammy’s 2011 Longshots Sixer. The lavender provides a calming, vanilla-like charm to the bottle’s Blonde Ale soul, while the hops lay a deep orange-and-grapefruit foundation. The honey, while apparent, is also sparse and nimble, remaining influential without coating everything with a cloying thickness. Herbal, sweet-but-dry, and mellow-- the beer I expected to be the worst of this year’s selections is actually pretty good. Shame on me.
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Bottle. Pours fizzy gold. White head. Nose and taste of honey, ginger, cream, spice and lavender flowers. Creamy mouth feel. Smooth.
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Bottle. Dark yellow pour with fast dissipating white head. Lavender and honey aroma.. A little tartness with honey in the flavour. Tart finish