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LongShot Double IPA
Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
- From:
- Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.6%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 11.83%
- Reviews:
- 362
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 24, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 07, 2009
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Ratings by bsp77:
Reviewed by bsp77 from Minnesota
3.6/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.6/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Serving glass: Poured from bottle into Nonic Imperial Pint.
Appearance: Dark hazy orange with persistent (but small) head and lacing.
Smell: Grapefruit, dry malt and pine.
Taste: Nice hop taste of grapefruit, pine and orange, countered by semi-dry malts that remind me of an English Bitter. Very strong bitterness at the end and aftertaste. Bitterness seems too strong in comparison to the actual hop taste. Too unbalanced. It actually reminds me of Bigfoot, but without the nice malt complexity. Can't really detect the alcohol. Please note, I did not drink this too cold, probably around 50 to 55 degrees for most of the glass.
Feel: Full bodied, slightly chewy, not quite as smooth as some other DIPAs.
Drinkability: Nice, slow sipping DIPA. However, I can't really imagine having a second one on the same night.
Note: Once the beer really warmed up (65+ degrees), the unbalanced bitterness subsided somewhat, but then it did taste like alcohol (and grapefruit). Still not that great.
May 20, 2009Appearance: Dark hazy orange with persistent (but small) head and lacing.
Smell: Grapefruit, dry malt and pine.
Taste: Nice hop taste of grapefruit, pine and orange, countered by semi-dry malts that remind me of an English Bitter. Very strong bitterness at the end and aftertaste. Bitterness seems too strong in comparison to the actual hop taste. Too unbalanced. It actually reminds me of Bigfoot, but without the nice malt complexity. Can't really detect the alcohol. Please note, I did not drink this too cold, probably around 50 to 55 degrees for most of the glass.
Feel: Full bodied, slightly chewy, not quite as smooth as some other DIPAs.
Drinkability: Nice, slow sipping DIPA. However, I can't really imagine having a second one on the same night.
Note: Once the beer really warmed up (65+ degrees), the unbalanced bitterness subsided somewhat, but then it did taste like alcohol (and grapefruit). Still not that great.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by SPLITGRIN from Kentucky
3.91/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From notes dated 02-21-15.
head is super creamy and builds to three fingers including a muffin top puff that rises above the rim of the glass and slightly over. Quickly turns rocky leaving swiss cheese like lace behind. Body is a classic orange amber tone. nose includes resin based hops with orange marmalade and strong back ground of malts. With first sip the hop profile is quite woodsy and laced with pine and citrus rind. The malts are very forward but I would attribute that to the year of aging this beer has had in my cellar. Ih has almost taken a turn towards barleywine status in terms of taste or style currently. Now this is not a bad thing but hops should be given a fresher chance and this is my fault so I definitely won't score poorly for that. The mouthfeel is thick with a hoppy, malt battle. Drinkability is quite nice fresh or with a little age. Let it be said that I am plenty aware that you should drink your IPA's as fresh as possible.
Sep 24, 2015head is super creamy and builds to three fingers including a muffin top puff that rises above the rim of the glass and slightly over. Quickly turns rocky leaving swiss cheese like lace behind. Body is a classic orange amber tone. nose includes resin based hops with orange marmalade and strong back ground of malts. With first sip the hop profile is quite woodsy and laced with pine and citrus rind. The malts are very forward but I would attribute that to the year of aging this beer has had in my cellar. Ih has almost taken a turn towards barleywine status in terms of taste or style currently. Now this is not a bad thing but hops should be given a fresher chance and this is my fault so I definitely won't score poorly for that. The mouthfeel is thick with a hoppy, malt battle. Drinkability is quite nice fresh or with a little age. Let it be said that I am plenty aware that you should drink your IPA's as fresh as possible.
LongShot Double IPA from Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
398 ratings
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