Not all that long ago, Sam Adams had a little competition of their own to determine what the next beer in the regular lineup would be. It was between an Irish Red Ale and a Dunkelweizen. We all know that the Sam Adams Irish Red was the winner as it’s out on liquor store shelves everywhere, and pretty good I might add.
However, the Dunkelweizen, which I managed to get a bottle of last week, is pretty good. Personally, I wish they went with this one. Too few breweries brew good German style beers. This one was a good one. While I can’t really write a good review as I think I had it too cold, it was a very nice beer and I am not normally a fan of wheat beers. I like a good German style beer. This one hit the spot last night. It was the obvious underdog in the competition, but it was a worthy competitor, in my opinion.
Anyway, here’s to hoping they brew it again. It was good. Here’s also to hoping that more breweries brew German style beers (with the exception of the Hefeweizen as I think it’s brewed a bit too much).
I picked up a 6 pack of the Irish Red a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot. I get their newsletter and I remember seeing something once about a Grape Ale or something like that, I was interested in it but couldn’t find anything else about it. It might have been one of the entries in the home brew contest or something.
The Grape Pale Ale (which I posted about here: http://runawayjim.org/2008/03/06/catching-up/) is part of the Longshot 6 pack. I don’t know how easy they are to find. I didn’t think it was anything special, though it was refreshing. The Weizenbock in the same box was really good though.