Samuel Adams Longshot Double IPA
3 Jun
Name – Samuel Adams Longshot Double IPA
Country – United States
Type – Double IPA
Appearance – Poured a very cloudy amber to copper color with a big slightly off white head that stuck around awhile and left a good amount of lacing on the glass.
Smell – Big hop smells with grapefruit and some pine notes to it.
Taste – As you would expect it has a big hop taste. Big grapefruit hops at that. Nice malt backing to it to even things out well. Very slight alcohol burn.
This is the second of the Longshot pack I got and by what the bottle cap says this was the overall winner in the contest and I can see why. Nothing fancy was done with this one just a straight forward and honest double IPA. Great look, smell and taste to it with nothing being left behind and nothing going over board. I really enjoyed this one.
Overall Grade – A
Been hearing lots of good things about this DIPA. I’m gonna have to go buy some and try it.
It is definitely the best out of the pack. If you can get singles of it I would say go for it because the Cranberry Wit and Bock are so so.
I enjoyed the complex hop usage. The use of so many varieties gave the brew a rich rather than thin hop flavor!
It is definitely a good one and glad that it was the overall winner out of the three in the pack.
I think it is the best one. Of course, it’s not surprising that you liked the IPA the best
Nope not surprising at all. I love my big hop IPAs.