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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Fiddler. Clear golden orange with an off white head. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, pine notes, light spicy hops and light caramel malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. [22-08-2016]
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2016
at 09:37
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and heavy hoppy wonderfull aroma. Heavy bitter fantastic flavor. Creamy palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2016
at 03:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Draft: Poured a golden color with a white head. Aroma is hops and light metal. Taste was a harsh in your face hops mixed with metallic and malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2016
at 20:40
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
35cl bottle at De Paas. Clear pale orange with no head. Pine resin, caramel, grapefruit, citrus hops and subtle tropical fruit. Medium body, low to zero carbonation and a bitter-sweet aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2016
at 13:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Flying Saucer, 14th July 16. Pours golden, Aroma is pleasant, Taste is sweet, but bitter, grapefruit, citrus, pine. Not bad
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jul 2016
at 15:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours nice clear golden, bit edging on amber. Beautiful creamy white foam, not too much of it but it is leaving some excellent lacings. Sweet and crisply hop-caramelly aroma, some fruits also there. Taste is full, you can feel the alcohol but it doesn’t really bother, more like helps this beer to stand up even better. Like a barley wine in some sense, at the same time generously hopped and not so sweet and sticky, so liking this quite a lot.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jul 2016
at 08:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle) Golden amber colour with big, frothy, off-white head, leaving traces of lacing. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of apricots, citrus (mandarin, orange peel), honey, lychee and fresh floral, citric hops. Fruity, hoppy taste with apricots, grapefruit, mandarin, honey, tropical fruit and lots of fresh citric, floral hops in a finish with a generous bitterness. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and well made, with a fresh, generous hop character. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2016
at 15:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at St. Augustine’s. Poirs a pale clear blonde. Aroma and Taste are hoppy (tropical fruits), malty, a bit sweet. Full-bodied. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2016
at 19:33
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Aroma: caramel, floral, citrus, pine Appearance: clear golden with a beige head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, creamy, average carbonation, bitter, Delicious
Tried
on 25 Jan 2016
at 20:05
8/10
Still a classic
Tried
on 19 Jan 2016
at 21:32