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Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
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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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From 33cc bottle at The Dog's Bollocks, Groningen, The Netherlands. Pours slightly orange gold with limited foam. Aroma is mandarin and grapefruit. Body is relatively dense with good carbonation. Taste is a good combination of sweetness and intense bitterness. Finish is long and bitter
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2017
at 12:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dégustée à l'été 2015 (De mes notes). .
Tried
on 21 Aug 2017
at 04:42
8/10
Tried
on 06 Aug 2017
at 14:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Erg goed! Mooi schuim in het begin. Uit fles. Mooi flesje trouwens. Geur en smaak erg goed. Deze zou ik vaker willen drinken.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2017
at 15:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From a 355 ml bottle poured in to a Snifter. Slightly hazy golden colour with a creamy off- white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, pines, caramel malts, honey, sugars, resin and toasted notes. Taste is bitter. Medium to full body with a creamy texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes dry and bitter with resin, rich malts and caramel malts. A classical American IIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2017
at 14:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Flaske 355ml fra Systembolaget Sth Vasagatan. Gylden. Høyt luftig skum som daler sakte. Pen lacing. Aroma av søt frukt. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken mango & fersken. Grei men ikke great.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2017
at 01:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Golden pour. Aroma of bitter resinous hop, caramel, citrus and malt. Taste has citrus, resinous hop, chewy orange zest, caramel, peach and a bitter hoppy finish. This is quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2017
at 15:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0,3 litre Bottle ordered from systembolaget, at home. Light Golden, hoppy aroma. Nice ale!!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2017
at 18:46
8/10
Tried
on 06 May 2017
at 09:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Fox and hounds, Aabenraa. Unclear amber body with a nice off-white head. Aroma has malt, bread, citric fruit and pine. Flavor is sweet malt, hint of toast, citric fruit, some ripe fruit, pine and balanced bitterness. Medium body and pleasant aftertaste. Quite refreshing and tasty, nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2017
at 04:22