Sucks
(has 6 batches)
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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AKA Holiday Ale
AKA Holiday Leftover Ale
AKA Brown Sugar Substitute
This sad holiday season we didn’t have the brewing capacity to make our favorite seasonal brew, the widely feared BrownShugga’ Ale. You see we had a couple of really good years (thank you very much) and so heading into this season while we are awaiting the January delivery of a new brewhouse we are jammin’ along brewing 80 barrels of IPA and PILS and such every 3 hours. A couple of months back we realized that since we can only brew a mere 60 barrels of Shugga’ every 5 hours, that we were seriously screwed. For every case of Shugga’ brewed, we’d short 3 cases of our favorite daily beers. It’s a drag. This year, we brewed something that we think is also cool and brews more like our daily brews. The new brewhouse will help insure this kind of failure never happens again. It’s a mess that we can not brew our BrownShugga’ this year and we suck for not doing it. There is nothing cool about screwing this up this badly and we know it. Maybe we can sue our own sorry selves. There is no joy in our hearts this holiday and the best we can hope for is a quick and merciful end. F*@& us. This totally blows. Whatever. We freaking munch moldy donkey butt and we just want it to be all over...
So this substitute beer is a ‘Cereal Medley’ of Barley, Rye, Wheat, and Oats…. Full of complexishness from the 4 grains, and weighing in at 8% abv, Then joyously dry-hopped for that big aroma and resinous hop flavor.
AKA Holiday Leftover Ale
AKA Brown Sugar Substitute
This sad holiday season we didn’t have the brewing capacity to make our favorite seasonal brew, the widely feared BrownShugga’ Ale. You see we had a couple of really good years (thank you very much) and so heading into this season while we are awaiting the January delivery of a new brewhouse we are jammin’ along brewing 80 barrels of IPA and PILS and such every 3 hours. A couple of months back we realized that since we can only brew a mere 60 barrels of Shugga’ every 5 hours, that we were seriously screwed. For every case of Shugga’ brewed, we’d short 3 cases of our favorite daily beers. It’s a drag. This year, we brewed something that we think is also cool and brews more like our daily brews. The new brewhouse will help insure this kind of failure never happens again. It’s a mess that we can not brew our BrownShugga’ this year and we suck for not doing it. There is nothing cool about screwing this up this badly and we know it. Maybe we can sue our own sorry selves. There is no joy in our hearts this holiday and the best we can hope for is a quick and merciful end. F*@& us. This totally blows. Whatever. We freaking munch moldy donkey butt and we just want it to be all over...
So this substitute beer is a ‘Cereal Medley’ of Barley, Rye, Wheat, and Oats…. Full of complexishness from the 4 grains, and weighing in at 8% abv, Then joyously dry-hopped for that big aroma and resinous hop flavor.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared 12 oz. bottle. Pale gold with white head. Aroma of grapefruit and pine. Taste: hoppiness is more subtle here than in the aroma. Hops nicely balanced by the malts. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2015
at 23:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Light amber with a white head that settles to a cm or so. Aroma of grapefruit, lime leaf, herbal lemon, toasted grains. Pretty sweet with kumquats and herbal lemon just doing enough to keep it in check. But the sweet malts are worthwhile - a bit bready, some toast, a little chewy. Doesn’t dry out all that much and the bitterness never is really more than required to partner the malt flavours.Pine comes in at the end too. Nice hops, plenty going on with the malt side of things, character and balance. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2015
at 06:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Grapefruit peel and sweet caramel malt aroma. Slightly hazy honey gold with a large off-white head. Grapefruit peel, caramel malt, and herbal hops flavor. Medium sticky body, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2015
at 17:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355 ml bottle, at a breakfast joint in Petaluma. Deep golden to orange colour, large off-white head. Aroma and flavour of citrus, pine, caramel and sweet malts. Maybe a bit too far out on the sweet side for me, but still a fairly nice beer. Some alcohol in the finish. Anyway, I wouldn’t say that it sucks.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2015
at 09:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A- Pine, spruce, bitter, citrus, dank, resin. A- Orange color, hazy liquid, off white head. T- Pine, bitter, herbal, subtle citrus. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- For some reason I expected this to be like a barleywine. I guess in a sense it was...but not really. More like an aggressive IPA from hell. Loved the aroma but the taste was a little too much for me. Liked it more than I thought I would.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2015
at 22:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Appearance: Light orange golden, clear. Some creamy, white head.
Aroma: Fruits, slight alcohol.
Taste: Good hops, heaps of malt. Sweetness. Bitterness in aftertaste. Some alcohol.
Bought: Total Wine (Sterling), 355 ml, $1.69
Info: 14/9-2015
Aroma: Fruits, slight alcohol.
Taste: Good hops, heaps of malt. Sweetness. Bitterness in aftertaste. Some alcohol.
Bought: Total Wine (Sterling), 355 ml, $1.69
Info: 14/9-2015
Tried
on 14 Sep 2015
at 21:26
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Stone in Asagaya. Pours a clear gold with a nice medium-sized head that dissipates fairly quickly. Big pine and citrus nose that is super enticing. Taste is more of the same. Very juicy grapefruit, orange and some lemon zest. Bitter finish that is crisp and dry. Excellent beer for the price and availability.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2015
at 08:04
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pale gold and clear, medium bodied, citrus and hops aroma. Orange peel and hops flavor with lingering bittersweet finish.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2015
at 20:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured into a taster showing well filtered clear dark yellow with half a finger of clean white foam. The nose is bursting with pine and cannabis. The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied. The first flavors show juicy citric fruit forward tartness with the middle balanced out with some dry malt flavors. Pilsner bitter finish at the end.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2015
at 07:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at 2112. Hazy golden color with small white head. Aroma is hoppy, piney, malty, sweet with quite a lot of resin. Taste is soothingly sweet, good malt body, pines, resin and moderately bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2015
at 09:06