Samuel Adams LongShot A Dark Night in Munich
Created by Corey Martin.
Corey has been working on his Munich Dunkel for some time and the result is this amber, medium-bodied brew. With a nice malty backbone, this lager has roasty, slightly spicy notes and a traditional doughy character from the yeast. It is well worth the time he took to perfect it.
Corey has been working on his Munich Dunkel for some time and the result is this amber, medium-bodied brew. With a nice malty backbone, this lager has roasty, slightly spicy notes and a traditional doughy character from the yeast. It is well worth the time he took to perfect it.
3.4
213 reviews
Boston, United States
Community reviews
Appearance: mahogany brown, with lovely dark red highlights. Aroma: caramel, dark toast, chocolate, toffee, cherries, plums, and roasted nuts. Taste: as the aroma indicates. Finish: smooth, sweet, a little fruity, and with a bit of toasty spices. Notes: Very drinkable, pretty sweet, and nicely tasty. Not bad at all.
Pours a reddish amber color with a medium tan head that faded quickly with light lacing. Smells of dough, dark chocolate, caramel. Tastes the same ad what I go on the nose with an added peppery note. Mouthfeel is heavy and pretty chewy. Overall this is a pretty solid dunkel with a lot of good flavors.
This is an okay beer. Some fruitiness and malts that go back and forth. The body is fairly heavy and a bit sweet as well. Okay, but not really for me.
Bottled. Poured medium reddish-brown with a short beige head. The aroma picked up sweeter chocolate, caramel, and nutty malts with faint accents of dark fruit and peppery rye. The flavor found more of the dark fruit and nutty notes at the core, with prickly carbonation and rye around.. finished with nice balance between the sweet malts and the roasty spicage. Light-medium bodied and well-balanced on the palate.. this was one of the best examples of the style that I’ve come across.
THOUGHTS: One of the most flavorful dunkels I’ve ever tried. Just tons of flavor and aroma.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark reddish amber that was nearly brown in the glass with a small, off-white head that kept a thin sheet. The aroma had moderate to heavy caramel, dark bread and milk chocolate; lighter roasted malt; light to moderate doughy and spicy yeast; prune; and hints of cola. The initial flavor was light to moderately sweet and slightly bitter; while the finish was moderately sweet and slightly sour with an average duration. There was caramel, dark bread, spicy yeast, roasted malt, nutty malt, prune, other dark fruit, doughy yeast and milk chocolate. The medium body was syrupy but more more oily with lightly fizzy carbonation and a slightly astringent and lightly metallic finish.
Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of cereal, roasted and nutty, light to moderate herbs, dough and meat for the hops and yeast with a hint of dark brown sugar in the background. Head is large, frothy turning creamy, light tan, with good but thin lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is clear, dark brown. Flavor starts lightly to moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes slightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Palate is on the lighter side of medium, watery, with a carbonation between soft and lively, and a lightly chalky and metallic finish. A pretty good Dunkel and a great representation of the style.
Bottle pours brown with a medium light brown head. Aroma and flavor are awesome. Huge bread and nutty malt with really nice yeast character in the finish. This is a home run.
12 oz. bottle- Pours dark brown to red with a thin tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, syrupy, cherries, somewhat yeasty. The taste is malty, again syrupy cherries, not overbearingly sweet, but still sweet, moderate spices. Body is medium, carbonation is moderately low. Overall It was decent, nothing to write home about, but good.
Bottle. Poured a darker amber almost brown color. Smaller tannish head that was gone rather quick. Aroma hints of caramel, molasses, brown sugar, and malts. Very malty flavor. Some syrup, brown sugar and other candies. Medium body. Decent beer nothing all that rememberable.
I got this as part of a mix & match 6pk at Madison East.
Pours a dark brown with an average lasting off-white head. Scent is mostly malts that are toasted and roasted with hints of cocoa. Taste is rich and refreshing. It is full of sweet, malty flavors and a mixture of spices. Great texture and drinkability with a sweet cocoa after taste. Very well made and very impressive for being a home brew winner.
Reddish Black. Actually, I guess blackish red makes more sense. Thin ring of foam. Smells molasses-like. Taste is very malty, a good deal of molasses, and a subtle rum note.
(tasting at Des Peres Schnucks) light brown with off white head. Sweetish malt aroma. Flavor is bready/caramel malt
Clear copper with a thin tan foamy head. Aroma of dough, toffee, noble hops, sweet caramel and brown sugar. Taste is a bit metallic with dough, yeast and semi-sweet malt. Thin and a tad bland.
great translucent mahogany with a thin beige head. slightly syrupy full body with high carbonation.
aroma: rich bready munich malt, slightly sour minerality, and faint herbal hops.
taste: sour minerality, fat bread-crust malt, caramel, and faint peppery herbal hops.
Malty, earthy flavors. Perhaps some notes of toasted almonds and hearty wheat bread. Some slight bitterness, but mostly a toasty mouthfeel. Average stuff.
12 oz bottle. pours a clear brown with reddish hues. Aroma of toasted grain, toffee, grass and raisin. flavor is toffee, peat, roasted grain. A solid dunkel.
Bottle. Enjoy before: 08/12. A deep copper pour with a thick khaki head. The subdued aroma features some caramel, pears, apples, grains, and the slightest hint of citrus in the background. Goes down thin to medium-bodied and kinda crisp. Refreshing and sessionable. A perfect palate. Some caramel along with a touch of toasted graininess upfront taste-wise. A bready/doughy middle. The finish is just a bit dry with some grassy hoppiness and a hint of smoke. A little spiciness throughout.
Pours a cloudy brown with a small light tan head. Aroma is quite earthy, with a musty smell that is almost more English than German. There is definite malt sweetness in the aroma, and not much for hops at all. Flavor is similar, very malty and musty/earthy, slightly sweet. Palate is good, not overly carbonated. A nice dunkel, if a bit sweet and a bit musty for the style.
Nice rich brown coloured body with a nice two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of deep toasted malt, a bit of coffee, some strong caramelised sugars, a bit of pit fruits and a good nuttiness. Medium-bodied; Strong malty flavour with some burnt flavours, a bit of light earthiness, some metal and a hint of light coffee - but mainly the malt and the toffee comes through. Aftertaste is nice and relatively light - no sharpness and no bitterness, just a pleasant malt kick with good sugars. Overall, a very nice dunkel with some good complexity and a good bell curve of a flavour profile. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle from the LongShot six pack purchased at Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 01-August-2012 for US$8.99/6pack sampled at home in Washington on 19-August-2012.
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear cola with a 2 finger foamy beige head. The aroma is quite roasty - but like a toasted bread thing. Body is at least medium. Flavor is nutty/malty with noble hop indications. It’s a little bready, but not so much as to be yeasty. Call it balanced. Call it tasty. Finishes towards darkly bready - but with a little less sugar it could be finishing towards an abbey dubbel. It’s really good.
Big Top Beverage Mart, Rosyln variety case: Pours a dark amber with beige head. Aroma is sort of bockish: dark fruit with a hefty bit of malt. Beer is very lightly sweet, but the sweetness lingers through the whole quaff. There is a slight hoppy tinge at one point in the drinking of this. ’Tis a rather good dunkel.
Pours a dark clear almond, chocolate brown with frothy tan-tinged head. Aroma is malty, almond, caramel and brown sugar. Flavor is coffee, brown sugar, molasses. Body is creamy with a lot of carbonation. Light on the tongue.
Bottle. Poured clear dark brown color with an average to large frothy light brown head that was mostly lasting with excellent lacing. Medium toasted malty aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium dark sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of average duration. This beer met my expectations.
Best before August 2012.
A: This is a beautiful beer with a clear mahogany body showing a nice steady stream of carbonation to a rather thick and dense tan head that has great retention.
S: Very malty and sweet, but not cloying. This is a great blend of caramel and toffee, very enticing.
T: This is malty and bready, slightly toasty, with some caramel and a hint of spice on the mid-taste. Sweet, but not cloying.
M: Near full-bodied with light fizzy carbonation.
O: This is a great malty beer, I am enjoying it. It is a nice "full" beer, by that I mean that the flavors and aromas really fill out and leave me satisfied.
poured into a slender pint, the smell comes off heavy soil with spicey bitterness and marvelous chocolate aftertaste. Color is dark brown, mouthfeel is dry and bitter. Cocoa comes in to play a short time into this brew, more dry and dusty with some sort of rasin and fig combination. This is a solid and hefty dunkel.
From bottle. Mild sweet aroma of caramel, roasted malt, and a little bit of metallic or carbonic tang. Dark coppery brown clear with light haze, topped with light tan creamy head. Mild lacing. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Starts roasty with caramel and some carbonic acidity. Nice dunkel flavors, with nutty sweet finish topped with mild to medium bitterness. After is semi-sweet, nutty, with a little bitter tang.
Love getting this six-pack every year. You never know what you are going to get. This one is pretty sweet up front in the nose and flavor. After that I get a weird flavor that is not quite medicinal but isn’t malty or "doughy" Just didn’t hit my sweet spot.
The aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, nutty, some vegetable. The appearance is cola red brown, off-white head. The flavor is caramel, bread, nuts, some cooked vegetables. The finish is noble hops, light caramel sweetness. Medium/thick in body, creamy mouthfeel. Nice job, Corey!
Pouts deep brown with beige head. Smells of cinnamon pine and roasted malts. Roasted Malts fade to fried dough but doesnt sit as heavy. Very drinkable. Nice for after dinner
dark amber pour with a cream head. nose is malts, roast, spices, and hops. easy on the palate, roasted malts, super easy to drink.