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LongShot Traditional Bock
Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
- From:
- Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Bock
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 9.69%
- Reviews:
- 321
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 28, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 30, 2008
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
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Ratings by tastybeer:
Reviewed by tastybeer from North Carolina
3.63/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
This beer has a very nice foamy head that remains as a solid 1/4" once it fades. Lace changes from sip to sip but is generally spotty. Beer is a woody garnet color and clear throughout. Aroma is mainly caramel soaked, chewy malt, with soft chocolate and toast, a touch of orange hop, and funky milky fruitiness. Basic malt packed, bock meets milk stout aroma. Taste is likewise. Barely bitter and caramel malty. Juuust enough hops. Full body, soft full mouthfeel with coating chewy texture. Also easy to drink.
OK bock. Sweeter than it should be though it doesn't bother me. Lactose sweetness keeps coming to mind...
May 04, 2009OK bock. Sweeter than it should be though it doesn't bother me. Lactose sweetness keeps coming to mind...
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Lexluthor33 from New York
3.79/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Medium brown color with small head and lace.
Aroma was bready, malty, grape notes and dates.
Taste was sweet with bread notes and grains.
Some alcohol in finish yet the finish was dry with medium carbonation and body.
The balance was so so.
Still, worth having this one.
Enjoyable.
2009 review.
Feb 28, 2024Aroma was bready, malty, grape notes and dates.
Taste was sweet with bread notes and grains.
Some alcohol in finish yet the finish was dry with medium carbonation and body.
The balance was so so.
Still, worth having this one.
Enjoyable.
2009 review.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
2.38/5 rDev -39.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
2.38/5 rDev -39.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
Another bock that pours thin, brown, whispy 1/5" head. Aroma is muted.
Taste imparts a more dark fruit alcoholic british mild brown ale vibe. Tobacco, plums, prunes, cigars, tobacco.
Jul 17, 2016Taste imparts a more dark fruit alcoholic british mild brown ale vibe. Tobacco, plums, prunes, cigars, tobacco.
Reviewed by SPLITGRIN from Kentucky
3.31/5 rDev -15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Review based on notes taken 7-2-10.
I have been overlooking this brew for a long time. Wanted to give it a shoot before age took to strong a toll. A vigorous pour gets early three fingers of fluffy biscuit tan head. Head turns quickly rocky as it slowly fades. Body is a deep mahogany amber tone. Nose is very faint with notes of minerals and toasted grains, both are tough to detect. Taste is malty up front with some snappy almost crisp fruit tones coming in afterwards. Malts stay prominent and get long and thick on the back of the tongue the more you drink. Mouthfeel quickly becomes thick and cloying. Drinkability is not bad but man, this beer really stays thick and malty all over the palate.
Oct 24, 2015I have been overlooking this brew for a long time. Wanted to give it a shoot before age took to strong a toll. A vigorous pour gets early three fingers of fluffy biscuit tan head. Head turns quickly rocky as it slowly fades. Body is a deep mahogany amber tone. Nose is very faint with notes of minerals and toasted grains, both are tough to detect. Taste is malty up front with some snappy almost crisp fruit tones coming in afterwards. Malts stay prominent and get long and thick on the back of the tongue the more you drink. Mouthfeel quickly becomes thick and cloying. Drinkability is not bad but man, this beer really stays thick and malty all over the palate.
LongShot Traditional Bock from Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
345 ratings
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