Lagunitas Brewing Company Willettized

Willettized

 

Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.92
ABV: 12.4% IBU: 32 Ticks: 96
Our friends over at Kentucky’s own Willett Distillery have one kind of barrel: wood. And they put two things in them: Bourbon and Rye. We were fortunate enough to get some of their Bourbon barrels, and we put a special coffee-fied version of our Imperial Stout in them.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Chuck's - Greenwood. Pours black with an off-white head. Nice bourbon and roasted malts on the nose. Flavour has a pretty big bourbon barrel up front, good roasted malts underneath, strong espresso. Very nice.

Tried from Draft from Chuck's Hop Shop - Greenwood on 04 Oct 2025 at 00:48


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Opaque black color, small brown colored head. Aroma and flavor are malts, light dark malts and roast, nicely bitter, some umami notes. Decent body and firm carbonation. Nice.

Tried on 21 Sep 2025 at 00:13


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Harry's Hofbrau. I remember liking previous versions of this more. Aroma of nice chocolate, booze and vanilla. Black with brown head. Flavor is overt roasted coffee, pitch and chocolate. Ashy roast detracts a bit here on both mouthfeel and flavor.

Tried from Draft on 02 Apr 2025 at 00:26


7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home. Pours jet black with a thin beige head. Nose is booze and mainly bourbon, some chocolate, more coffee, some molasses. Taste is chocolate, booze, lots of molasses, light coffee, vague dried fruits. Moderately sweet. Closes with an abrupt finish in which the booze gets more apparent, the body is way too thin for this abv and it shows all the way. Not bad, but way too thin. It's not the first relatively highly rated classic US stout that's pretty highly rated here but I found kinda underwhelming... Old Rasputin, Oh! Fudge, Founders' Breakfast Stout and KBS for instance were all far from what I hoped they would be. Oh well.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:57


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. 2019 version. Black in color with red highlights and a surprisingly big head. Taste is mocha-chocolate with hints of vanillia.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2025 at 05:02


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

From tap at Lagunitas TapKabinet, Amsterdam. Aroma is roasty with fairly strong bourbon, equally potent vanilla, warming alcohol, oak, coffee, and liquorice. Bittersweet boozy flavour, thick body. Tasty and heavy with just a little too much liquorice to take this into the higher regions of the style.

Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:58


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

(Bottle, vintage 2019, 12.4%) Black colour with brief, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with black bread, oak wood, whiskey, black coffee, liquorice, dark chocolate, treacle, hazelnuts and vanilla. Malty, roasted, sweetish taste with notes of coffee, oak wood, whiskey, dark bread, liquorice, dark chocolate, caramel, treacle, hazelnuts, vanilla and a warming, vinous finish with a fairly low roasty bitterness. Almost full body, sweet. Rich, warming and tasty. Great beer!

Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2024 at 19:45


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Multiple bottles from a 6-pack from Livonia Liquor. Pours a deep brown with a finger of dark beige head that lingers. Coffee focused nose with bourbon, dark fruit, tobacco and leather. Smooth on the palate with lovely notes of oak, dark chocolate, coffee and more tobacco. Drying finish with lingering bourbon, baker's chocolate and coffee.

Tried from Bottle from Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine on 25 Nov 2024 at 04:51


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

2023/2024 version on tap. Big full pour pint for 4 dollars. 12.4%. Big, heavy stuff. Rich chocolate, steady barrel, not super defined there...mild Rye notes for sure still, just clearly blended down. Good, better for the price.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jan 2024 at 23:52


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12oz bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice chocolate rich coffee roast malts and a bourbon barrel kick. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate roast malts rich bourbon barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2023 at 21:10