Lagunitas Brewing Company Sucks

Sucks

 

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

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.40
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 63 Ticks: 240
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.
 

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7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Glass, 4-ounce, draught, drunk at Lagunitas Chicago Taproom, savoured on May 12 2017; eye: golden, clear, no effervescence, ring of off-white head, light lacing; nose: pine, fruity, orange, light Cointreau, alcohol; mouth: pine, fruity, orange, light Cointreau, alcohol, dry finale in bittering hops with presence of Cointreau, full body, rather carbonated, rather bitter, lightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine

FRANÇAIS
Verre, 4 onces, en fût, bue au Lagunitas Chicago Taproom, savourée le 12 mai 2017; œil : dorée, limpide, pas d’effervescence, anneau de mousse blanc cassé, légère dentelle; nez : pin, fruité, orange, léger Cointreau, alcool; bouche : pin, fruité, orange, léger Cointreau, alcool, finale sèche en houblon amérisant avec présence de Cointreau, corsée, plutôt carbonatée, plutôt amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : bien
Tried from Draft on 01 Feb 2018 at 19:30

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle 35,5 cl. As "Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale". Pours a clear golden with a creamy and lacing off-white head. Nose is sweet and fruity with some subtle, herbal hops. Body is thick, sweet and malty - fruity too. A vague perfumy whiff. Rather discreet bitterness. Almost gets a little cloying. 020118
Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2018 at 07:56

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from systembolaget, Östersund. A surprinsgly light beer in colour with a strong hoppy aroma. It plays very heavily on those musty hops of West coast beers. Delicious but not my favourite hops. If this is what they call 'failure' though, they can keep failing...
Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2017 at 16:40

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On tap at the mailbox lincoln. Golden colour with a white head. Big citrus orange aroma and taste that’s orange sweet. Medium body.
Tried from Draft on 11 Nov 2017 at 08:18

7/10
Tried on 09 Nov 2017 at 09:05

6/10
backlog --- Beer merged from original tick of Sucks Holiday Ale (2016) on 17 Sep 2018 at 12:06 - Score: 6. Original review text: Backlog
Tried on 26 Oct 2017 at 14:02

6/10
backlog --- Beer merged from original tick of Sucks Holiday Ale (2017) on 05 Nov 2017 at 14:24 - Score: 6. Original review text: backlog
Tried on 26 Oct 2017 at 14:02

6/10
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Tried on 26 Oct 2017 at 14:02

6/10
backlog --- Beer merged from original tick of Sucks Holiday Ale (2015) on 17 Sep 2018 at 12:06 - Score: 6. Original review text: Backlog
Tried on 26 Oct 2017 at 14:02

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Fles online besteld, geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een helder geel kleurig bier met een medium schuimkraag. Het heeft een lekkere hoppige geur. De smaak is vol, hoppig en wat fruitig. Erg lekker!
Tried on 14 Oct 2017 at 14:19