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rAvg: 4
pDev: 12.75%
Reviews: 1170
Hads: 1097

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Lagunitas Brewing Company

California, United States

Style | ABV
American Strong Ale | 9.99% ABV

Availability: Winter. bottle (1058), on-tap (102), growler (6), cask (4).

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TheBrewo

Michigan

4.05/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

This brew was poured from the tap at Rattle N’ Hum in New York, NY. It arrived in a stemless, flared pilsner glass. The beer glowed a dark, reddish honey coloring. It held a one and a half finger head of tight, tan bubbles. This retained nicely, leaving a single sheet of lacing down the glass, and a film across the top of the liquid for the entire tasting. Carbonation appeared light, with no haze or sediment noted. The aroma showed caramel and pale malt sweetness, with a bit of muddy grit. Hops were floral and soapy, adding bitterness. There was an industrial plastic sourness with warmth, along with tart yeast, and souring of apple vinegar. Fusel heat wafted off the top. Our first impression was that there was a nice malty back, with a powerful initial sweetness. The flavoring opened with maple sweetness, citric and soapy hops, orange juice sweetness and acidity, with cutting deep sugary malts, and a light roast. The peak came with Styrofoam plastics, unsweetened iced tea dryness, drying toasty caramel malts to cut, and melted caramel sugar to the finish. The latter blended with an equal sweetness and richness of heavy creamer, to help the malts cut the continuous piney hop bitterness. The aftertaste breathed of surprising bitterness of hops and soap, souring yeast, black pepper and booze, warming winter spice, and light caramel sweetness. The body was full, and the carbonation was medium. There was a nice syrupy coating to the mouth, with a final pucker from lemon in the aftertaste. There was soft slurp, sip, cream, and froth, while the lips and fingers are left sticky. The mouth was ultimately cooled and happy, with warmth rumbling up from the tummy. The abv was appropriate, and the beer drank easily.

Overall, the best thing about this brew was the warming, seasonal feel, with hearty flavoring the whole way through. There was such a nice blend of warming spice, with sweetness of malts and a biting lick of soapy, citric, and piney hop bitterness. This made for a uniform sip throughout. The nose was also certainly stark, and with such fusel booze it can be seen to overwhelm the light of heart with fiery booze. The tea-like lemon flavoring, at times, does tip the flavor’s balance, but this is a very tasty, season-appropriate beverage.

Serving type: on-tap

11-17-2012 15:40:41 | More by TheBrewo

More User Reviews:

brewcifix

Connecticut

4.5/5 rDev +12.5%

05-20-2013 22:01:15 | More by brewcifix

Kmat10

Alberta (Canada)

4/5 rDev 0%

05-20-2013 04:51:21 | More by Kmat10

chefhatt

Pennsylvania

4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

When i poured this beer into a glass, it has a dark amber color body with a 2' tan head to it. The smell has a sweet raisin aroma to it. The taste is hop and malt up front, very boozy, but as it warms up, i can taste a little brown sugar sweetness. The mouth feel is real good and overall this is a good sipping beer.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2013 01:15:43 | More by chefhatt