Thursday, May 28, 2009

Review: LongShot Double IPA

This is the best of the three beers in Samuel Adams' LongShot six-pack this year. LongShot brews, as I wrote about in a previous post, are the winners of SA's homebrew contest.

Pours a cloudy amber in color with a sticky and foamy off-white head.The aroma is all about the hops: Herbal, earthy, citrus -- this beer has it all. The aroma reminds me of smelling hops before homebrewing.

The taste is wonderful. Big hops flavors (earthy, vegetable and citrus) and bitterness mix with a slight sweetness from the malt. This is a hop bomb. This must have been dry-hopped with pounds of the stuff. The hop flavors are soap-like, and I mean that as a compliment. Noticeable alcohol flavors.

Great body that's smooth yet also light, perhaps from the alcohol.

A must for hopheads, especially at the ridiculous cheap price SA charges for its Longshot six-packs.

This is a masterpiece and the best beer I've had from Samuel Adams.

Boston Brewing Co.: Please add this beer to your year-round offerings!

If you like hops, you have to have some of this beer. Drop what you're doing right now and go seek it out.

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