Sucks
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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from the LCBO. Clear medium amber under a small short lived white head that leaves sparse lace. Nose is pine resin, some light toffee, citrus peel and a touch of spice. Light toffee sweetness under a big pine and citrus bitterness. Mouth is medium- and chewy with a lingering bitter finish. 8/3/8-/3+/15-
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2016
at 19:13
Tried
on 17 Dec 2016
at 23:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ The Country Stat Improver Tasting ] - Saxo, Aarhus. [ As Lagunitas Sucks ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, pine, alcohol. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, pale malt, sweet malt, pine, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20161008] 7-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2016
at 09:41
5/10
Tried
on 06 Nov 2016
at 19:03
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Amsterdam Pubcrawl 2016, @Tap Zuid, van tap. donker gouden met witte kraag. aroma van gras, floraal en stro. Smaken van gras, hooi/stro, matig tot redelijk bitter, grassig, zacht, dun, zwakke body, ok co2.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2016
at 04:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Tap Zuid. Clear golden amber colour, white head. Aroma of resin, some pine, caramel, spicy rye, tropical fruits, sticky and hoppy. Flavour is hoppy, resin, tropical fruits, caramel, light spice, bitter finish, some pine. Medium bodied. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2016
at 06:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at Tap Zuid, Amsterdam. Clear golden color, average sized white head. Aroma and flavor is malts, hops, resin, pine, bitter. Medium to full body and medium carbonation. Lovely.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2016
at 10:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Tap Zuid during pubcrawl. Clear golden with white head. Sweet malts, barley, resin, exotic fruitiness. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium body, quite alcoholic, low carbonation. Yeasty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2016
at 10:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Tap Zuid. Clear golden with fluffy white head. Fruity hops, some resin, mango, pineapple and lime, sweet malts, light mineral and doughy. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2016
at 10:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Aarhus tasting. Pours pale gold with a lasting white head. Aroma is fruity, hop, caramel. Finish is bittersweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2016
at 06:22