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Samuel Adams Longshot Double IPA

June 3, 2009

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

Samuel Adams Longshot Cranberry Wit

June 2, 2009

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Name – Samuel Adams Longshot Cranberry Wit
Country – United States
Type – Witbier

Appearance – Pours a hazy orangish color with a bubbly head that disappeared rather quickly.

Smell – Ever so slight smell of cranberry but some other smells of orange, lemon and yeast.

Taste – A citrus like taste with that taste of yeast and wheat bread. Nothing really there for the way of cranberry.

This one is part of the Sam Adams Longshot series of home brewed recipes and while it is a pretty good wheat it just really doesn’t have much in the way of cranberry in it. I really didn’t pick anything up on the taste and it was only mildly present on the smell. So that leaves me rather confused. If you are looking to get a good cranberry taste then you really won’t get it here but you do get a good wheat beer anyway.

Overall Grade – C+

Rogue Chocolate Stout

June 1, 2009

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Name – Rogue Chocolate Stout
Country – United States
Type – American Stout

Appearance – Poured a bold black color with a light brown head that left some lacing.

Smell – Smelled like powdered chocolate, like what’s used to make chocolate milk. Some roasted malt flavors are present.

Taste – A good milk chocolate tasted up front with some presence of roasted malts and a slight hint of coffee.

Pretty good all around stout. It seemed a little thin in it’s consistency than typical stouts but that was fine and went with the sweetness of this one. Real chocolate was used in the brewing of this and it comes through that way. Well made stout.

Overall Grade – B