B3K
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
6.86
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O.G. 1.070 65.80 IBU
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nimbleprop (16618) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bottle sampled at the DC Local tasting. Pours a translucent, copper amber with a creamy, slightly off white head. Aroma is strong with big raisin aromas at the front, leather, brown sugar, booze, port. Flavor is totally sweet, raisins, strong caramel, brown sugar, cookie dough. The finish is sweet and drinkable and not nearly as heavy as you’d think. Holding up very well.
beastiefan2k (4726) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
I don’t know, I am going to guess they made this once for their 3000th batch and that it is 4 years old and needs to be retired by now. It was shared by beerguy101, thanks Mitch, at the RBSG’09 Grand Tasting. This was one of the few non-sour beers there that I rated and really looked forward to beforehand. I kept bothering Mitch to break it out til he finally did, I may have been the first pour. This is really funny because usually I couldn’t give a rats ass about Lagunitas but I wanted this and I was not disappointed. The pour give me a nice dark brown copper color. Aroma is sweet raisin, not sugary though, just sweet raisin with straight up Russian tea behind that, I swear I am smelling tea that I would get to try on the train in Russia with about 2 cubes of sugar in it. I like it and it really sucks me into the beer and makes me disregard the craziness of RBSG around me. The flavor losses some of that sweet tea and comes off more like a barleywine. However, the alcohol is extremely well hidden, I would have been even more sensitive to it at this point but I could not find it, I loved that part. And the age was not coming through it if was indeed that old. I only had 2 other aged Strong beers that night (HW BAOS and FFTW RB edition) and this was surviving much better than both (almost definitely b/c it is not barrel aged) and was the best of the bunch. It was also not slick or heavy like a lot of Strong Ales, made it very easy to drink especially that night. My first really good experience with Lagunitas in a while.
yespr (55607) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From bottle. Pours hazy orange with a lacing off-white head. Smooth and slight earthy touch. Yet also caramel malty. Nice and slight yeasty. Smooth and flavourfull. Fruity and malty finish with a solid yeasty note.
Lubiere (24390) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep dark reddish brown with a thin off white head. A smooth hops and caramel, with light treacle aroma. In mouth, a sweet figuy malt with light floral hops, caramel and spices. Medium bodied. Enjoyed with the Mtl Crew Sept. 9, 2006.
Ungstrup (52101) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet alcoholic combined with notes of malt and caramel, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of wood and over ripe fruits.
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 65 cl) Clear mahogany with a reddish hue and a beige head. Hoppy aromatic nose with distinct alcohol. Medium-bodied with notes of roasted malt and sweetish caramel. Rather light, hoppy finish. 030306
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
2005 bottle. Have had a few of these on a number of different occasions. Pours a amber-beige to dusky brown color, with an off-white to beige colored head, pretty well retained, though rather small, little lacing. Clear and filtered (surprise!). Aroma of brown sugar, wet, green hops, raisins, prunes, cinnamon and caramel. Flavor is your basic sweet caramelly malt, raisins, brown sugar and some very astringent dryness, perhaps from some lightly toasted/roasted malt. Hint of dry berry-like fruitiness, quite sugary though with a medium-full body overall, typical force-carbonated texture. The only thing I enjoyed was the very well hidden alchool. Almost don’t believe it’s 11.3% Just pretty boring, overall though. Not poorly made or anything. Reminds me of an amped up Nuevo Noir minus the Belgian yeast and spices. Ok so that dosent really say much. But it’s just boring caramel/brown sugar, nuts and dates. Lots more hops though, than Nuevo noir, obviously. But the base malt character is bland, IMHO.
SpringsLicker (4048) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Noogfest Clear amber color. Caramel aroma with some bisquit notes. Moderatly sweet with no real stand out flavors. Finishes a bit thin and dry.
bb (18337) reviewed B3K from Lagunitas Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Dark ruby-amber with a big beige head. Aroma of rich malt, toffee, alcohol. Grapefruit hop flavor under a lot of smooth malt - brown sugar, toffee. Just a hint of alcohol beneath just a little berry fruit. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter, but good and surprisingly easy to drink. It’s lacking the complexity of a really nice Belgian, but otherwise this has a lot going for it.