Born Yesterday Fresh Hop Ale
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
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7.46
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Born Yesterday feat. fresh hops rushed from farm-to-brewery in under 24 hrs!
If we could bottle the smell of harvest time in Yakima Valley, WA, we would. Hell, we try every year! Today we get the next best thing: Born Yesterday. See, once hops are harvested, the flavor clock starts ticking’. So we rush a select bunch of whole-cone ‘wet’ hops on refrigerated trucks straight to Lagunitas. In less than 24hrs they arrive and immediately drop into this brew via a stoopid custom-built contraption, injecting all their precious aromatics. Special delivery indeed. Congratulations, it’s a beer!
If we could bottle the smell of harvest time in Yakima Valley, WA, we would. Hell, we try every year! Today we get the next best thing: Born Yesterday. See, once hops are harvested, the flavor clock starts ticking’. So we rush a select bunch of whole-cone ‘wet’ hops on refrigerated trucks straight to Lagunitas. In less than 24hrs they arrive and immediately drop into this brew via a stoopid custom-built contraption, injecting all their precious aromatics. Special delivery indeed. Congratulations, it’s a beer!
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
12oz bottle pours with a near clear deep gold body that supports an off white head. The aroma offers up pineapple, tangerine and spicy notes of sweet onion. The taste delivers smooth fairly rich pineapple and tangerine running up into spicy bitter dry onion hoppiness. Nice stuff and going down way too easy. Wow! Love this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2018
at 16:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 2017 version. Gold with a white head that lasts very well. Aroma of kumquats, some pineapple and herbs, light bread. Sweet and clean, dominated by round bittersweet citrus flavours. Minor tropical notes. Finish is more dry than bitter. Very nice, if a little strong for what it offers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2017
at 18:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Green Lion Inn, Malmo - golden pour with white head. Sweet fruity and pale malty, notes of tropical citrus fruit, some grapefruit and tangerine, sweet malty support, hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2017
at 13:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Lillies and orange on the nose. Cloudy amber, thin head. Lillies, grapefruit, orange. Medium body, moderate carbonation.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2017
at 20:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Red Cow North Loop. Pours a clear yellow gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has a combination of onion and citrus with grass and grains underlying. Flavor has a combination of grass, onion and citrus with a light sweet grain backbone.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Dec 2017
at 21:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Tap) clear, bright yellow colour with a small white head; aroma of crushed weed, tropical fruit; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Nov 2017
at 17:33
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Red. Pours a slightly hazy gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Big dank grass aromas with durian, grapefruit and citrus. Prickly bitterness on the palate, with grapefruit, tangerine and more pithy citrus. Light and dry, classic west coast style. Lingering dank grassiness that permeates throughout. Could drink this year-round.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2017
at 23:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. squat brown bottle poured into a glass. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops and bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2017
at 19:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Waterloo Tap, 27/07/17. Hazed orange golden with a well presented off white head. Nose is caramel, citric kissed straw, orange peel, melon, light bread. Taste comprises orange pith, caramel malts, light pine dusting, melon, toasted bread. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a good level of hop bitterness. Decent well balanced APA with an old skool bite.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2017
at 15:37
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from QClub at home. Slightly hazy golden copper pour with bone white head. Aroma is nice - dank zesty hops with pineapple. Taste is similar but less zesty and more piney bitterness, slightly unfresh tasting but not as bad as I thought. Lingering vegetal bitterness. Some boozy warmth. Not bad - would probably be really good fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2017
at 11:00