Lagunitas Brewing Company Maximus

Maximus

 

Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating
Score
7.31
ABV: 9.0% IBU: 60 Ticks: 265
Colossal Double IPA

Maximus is our Colossal take on a Double IPA. 9% ABV. Full of Simcoe and Cascade hops balanced against tons of rich malted barley—a bed of smooth malted wheat, biscuity Munich malt, and English Crystal. Maximus’ massive dry-hop bill entertains with spice, floral and berry notes … For the hop heads!
 

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8.5/10
Tried on 23 Jan 2017 at 23:14

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle. Pours clear dark amber with large foamy off-white head, very faint citrus aroma, low carbonation, initially sweet taste followed by medium hoppy bitterness, thin body, long sticky sweet finish with residual bitterness. A bit too sweet.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2016 at 17:45

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle, 355 ml from Beergium. Shared with JFK10000. Pours clear orange with medium off-white head. Hoppy, citrus, grassy, malty, sweet, moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied. Guess not the freshest one since I expected more hops.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2016 at 11:12

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle (from beergium). Pours amber. Aroma is sweet, vanilla, pine, malt, citrus. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, pine, caramel candy, malt. Finish ipine bitter. Overall: good.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2016 at 17:45

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass. Appearance is clear, golden/light copper with trace sparkle, finger-width foamy white head with fair retention and nice sudsy lacing. Aroma is fruit, resin, citrus, pine. Taste is sweet tropical fruit with dank, bitter resin, citrus and pine at the ending. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, foamy texture, average-to-lively carbonation and mix of sweet fruity and mild bitter finish. Overall, this scores high across the board with decent complexity. Weirdly thin palate for an imperial IPA but equally weirdly it kinda works.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2016 at 21:23

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen - pours orange amber with a white head. Aroma and taste comprises sweet tropical fruits, prominent grapefruit, tangerine, citrus peel, with good malty backbone, caramel, toffee, resinous hoppy, pine needles, bitter finish.
Tried from Draft on 27 Jun 2016 at 01:08

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
0.355l bottle. Clear orange body, white head. Aroma and taste of biscuit, toffee, toast, pine, berries, citruses and a hint of roast. Sweet upfront but has a nice hop bitterness in the end. Not a westcoast style hop bomb, but I like it.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jun 2016 at 13:44

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
6-pack from the LCBO. Pours a clean amber colour with a big warm cap, great retention and creamy-foamy lacing. Grassy hop aromas with citrus over caramel malts. Sweet malty taste with lots of herbal notes. This Imperial IPA goes down nicely, but it is a little rich in the middle. Thankfully, the finish is lightly dry and helps this.
Tried on 20 May 2016 at 00:08

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at Lagunitas tap room, Pataluma (CA, USA). Orange clear pour, tick and resistant off-white cap. Nose: citric, almonds pastry. Mouth: complex citric-sweet orientation, juicy sweet tangerine soul, clean, dry finish! Just great! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried from Draft on 04 May 2016 at 19:23

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
(bottle) clear, very bright orange colour with a mall beige head; aroma oftropical fruit, bit of dankness; balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter finish
Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2016 at 17:54