Fusion 7 (VII)
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Series Out of Production|
Score
7.30
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5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft courtesy of argo0, thanks! Clear golden color, no head or lacing. Aroma of summer fruits. Taste is boozy with light spice and some other descriptive adjective that I can’t quite make out in my notes. It starts with a "c."
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Aug 2014
at 13:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Dexters. Filtered copper-orange-brown. Thin, steady off-white head. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a Lagunitas IPA. Solid piny citrus hop bill. Cleanish toasty malt. Overall pretty clean and drinkable. Medium to full bodied, quite sessionable. OK, but sort of redundant and tame.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Feb 2013
at 21:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Lagunitas during SF Beer Week, what a week! It pours crystal clear copper with near white head. The aroma has some malt sweetened citrus notes and then crisp spicy hops and then some grapefruit into the end of the draw. The taste has a mix of citrus hops and spicy hops and then delivers crisp yumminess. It goes from flavor hops and picks up only modest hop bitterness to midway. It ends pretty smooth and somewhat sweet. Yummers.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2012
at 06:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Good, but compared to the fresh Hop Stoopid and Sucks on tap? Sad comparison, amongst amazing competition. Pours with a clear, but very deep golden hued body with a white head. Good lace. Aromas are of brown sugar, tamarind, floral, citrus, rose water, cantaloupe and herbal hops. Flavors are very malty. Too malty for my tastes. Brown sugar, caramel, floral, grainy with a mild citrus hop character. Lowish carb. Not a bad beer per say, but not great either. But next to Sucks and fresh Hop Stoopid, this beer, well, sucks! I am all for experimentation, but if a lower rate of experimentation allows for "Holiday Leftovers" aka Sucks year round...I’d be fine with that.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2012
at 22:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Really good ipa. On draft at bukowski’s. Amber color, aroma of grapefruit and citrus, taste is the same. Delicious
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2011
at 19:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Rose and Crown. Amazing grapefruit and slight pine jump out of the glass. Clear orange with white head that leaves too quickly. Medium-full mouthfeel of orange, citrus and pine leads to a dry bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2011
at 17:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Served on draft at Beer Run. Pours a clear vibrant copper color with a thin frothy offwhite head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of floral, citrus and vegetal hop notes with caramel malts. The taste is big citrus and herbal hops with big caramel malts. Medium bodied. Well balanced. Quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2011
at 20:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Rich amber beer with a cream colored head. Grapefruti and light summer fruit aroma with light earthiness. Grapefruit and summer fruit with tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Decent bitterness. Grapefruit and summer fruit lingers with tropical fruit and light caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2011
at 13:04
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Bavarian Lodge. Brown but clear, the kind of drink you’d like to watch a fireplace through. A quarter-finger ecru foam layer with no bubbles feeding it. Biggest damn catbox smell of any hoppy beer I can remember. Like putting hops in a vaporizer to try and cure a sniffle. Hmm… I may have something here. Not surprising then that the taste is a big mouthful of hops, too. This beer finally tests the limits of my hop endurance. A red ale can be pretty neutral in the first place; used here as a base, it’s just not given a chance by the hops. If you’re a true hophead, you’d likely rate this even higher. But as Flo and/or Eddie said, I know when I’ve been licked… all over.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2011
at 21:11
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Lagunitas Fusion VII (by Lagunitas Brewing Company (Heineken)):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
4/10/2011 on tap @ Rattle 'n Hum, NYC (2011-513)
Clear dark orange beer, aery small yellowish head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet passion fruits, pineapple, bit of resin. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity but also herbal, bit of the classic passion fruits with grapefruit and bitter oranges, citrus touches. Aftertaste: bitter hops with sour touches and a peache fruitiness to it. Good balanced brew.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
4/10/2011 on tap @ Rattle 'n Hum, NYC (2011-513)
Clear dark orange beer, aery small yellowish head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet passion fruits, pineapple, bit of resin. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity but also herbal, bit of the classic passion fruits with grapefruit and bitter oranges, citrus touches. Aftertaste: bitter hops with sour touches and a peache fruitiness to it. Good balanced brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Oct 2011
at 09:01