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Longshot Blackened Hops
Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
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- From:
- Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 10.82%
- Reviews:
- 189
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 17, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
Notes:
None
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.33/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.33/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Deep brown pour, 1/2" head, light brown. the hopping was somewhat hidden, as you continually keep sniffing, you start to make out a tree like hop nose that is very faint.
More woodiness, bitter, not overly acrid, somewhat dry finish, roast never jumps into this, it has a deep dark color, but the roast stays off the tongue. I guess this is a black ipa. It really tastes what I would expect from SA in a black ipa, so I'll call it that.
Jan 21, 2016More woodiness, bitter, not overly acrid, somewhat dry finish, roast never jumps into this, it has a deep dark color, but the roast stays off the tongue. I guess this is a black ipa. It really tastes what I would expect from SA in a black ipa, so I'll call it that.
Reviewed by Stinkypuss from Pennsylvania
3.63/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Look: Dark brown with a soapy off white head. Leaves plenty of lace and looks like a solid dark beer overall.
Smell: roasted, nutty malts, coffee, chocolate and a whiff of herbal hops.
Taste: Dark malt body, but still quite hoppy with herbal and earthy notes, a bit woodsy and taste faintly of citrus. Roasted malts, fairly bitter still. Has some mild coffee like flavor but mostly a one-two punch of roast and hops.
Feel: Full bodied, well carbonated. Finishes clean and balanced.
Overall: Solid black ipa. A two trick pony of malt and hops. Not insanely complex but good for what it is. The hops have held up well over time. This is still drinking like it was fresh.
Jun 02, 2013Smell: roasted, nutty malts, coffee, chocolate and a whiff of herbal hops.
Taste: Dark malt body, but still quite hoppy with herbal and earthy notes, a bit woodsy and taste faintly of citrus. Roasted malts, fairly bitter still. Has some mild coffee like flavor but mostly a one-two punch of roast and hops.
Feel: Full bodied, well carbonated. Finishes clean and balanced.
Overall: Solid black ipa. A two trick pony of malt and hops. Not insanely complex but good for what it is. The hops have held up well over time. This is still drinking like it was fresh.
Reviewed by warnerry from Michigan
3.58/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Notes from 5/8/11; Best by Sept 2011
A - Pours black with massive three finger head. Head has excellent retention.
S - Smell is predominantly malts, roasted and chocolate, and some citrus notes.
T - Taste is chocolate malt and piney hops. While the hops definitely play a rolehere and persist in the aftertaste, this is a very malt-forward beer. Some lingering earthiness as well.
M - Medium creamy body, somewhat dry on the finish from both hops and earthy malts.
O - Not hoppy enough to be a black IPA. I'm not sure how this should be classified, but it feels like it can't commit. The hops get a bit muddled. Pretty tasty, but not something I would seek out.
Mar 31, 2012A - Pours black with massive three finger head. Head has excellent retention.
S - Smell is predominantly malts, roasted and chocolate, and some citrus notes.
T - Taste is chocolate malt and piney hops. While the hops definitely play a rolehere and persist in the aftertaste, this is a very malt-forward beer. Some lingering earthiness as well.
M - Medium creamy body, somewhat dry on the finish from both hops and earthy malts.
O - Not hoppy enough to be a black IPA. I'm not sure how this should be classified, but it feels like it can't commit. The hops get a bit muddled. Pretty tasty, but not something I would seek out.
Reviewed by Beerandraiderfan from Nevada
3.35/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.35/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours a very dark brown. Scored this at the beer shoppe in Davis, couldn't really pull much out of the aroma at first, then pine became kind of the most discernable thing going on.
Taste, kinda bitter, dry, yet with an earthy fullness to the beer. Didn't impart any chocolate our mouthfeel of chocolate malt. Stayed pretty neutral allowing the pine to register throughout the beer.
For some reason the freshness bottled on notch got missed on this, and I was left to speculate how fresh it was based on the taste. It was decent, but I wonder if I got it sooner, the pine would have had that nice cold air bite to it that was missing on this occasion.
Jan 08, 2012Taste, kinda bitter, dry, yet with an earthy fullness to the beer. Didn't impart any chocolate our mouthfeel of chocolate malt. Stayed pretty neutral allowing the pine to register throughout the beer.
For some reason the freshness bottled on notch got missed on this, and I was left to speculate how fresh it was based on the taste. It was decent, but I wonder if I got it sooner, the pine would have had that nice cold air bite to it that was missing on this occasion.
Longshot Blackened Hops from Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
249 ratings
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