Lagunitas Brewing Company
Commercial Brewery
in
Petaluma,
California,
United States πΊπΈ
Owned by
Heineken USA
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1993
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Pale hazy orange color, small white head. Bready aroma with American hops. This should be a Czech-style pils? Sweetish, bready flavor. Easy to drink. Flavor is close to standard APA than Czech pils :)
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2006
at 10:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Red copper ale with a thick light moka head, lacing. Nice herbal c-hops in aroma, with good chunky malt in mouth, welll balanced with floral hops, very grapefruity, and a good dose of candy sugar. Rich bodied, with hops and malt covering the mouth. Bottle from Party Source, Syracuse, August 2006.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2006
at 08:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden body with a medium frothy white head. Sweet honey and light grassy hops aroma. Sweet grassy hop flavor, some light caramel and honey.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2006
at 20:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This brings back lots of memories let me tell you. Pours with a generous creamy head over a clear, dark yellow body. Lightly sweet and fruity malts with light flowery hops in the aroma. The bitterness follows a lightly sweet start, all delivered with a smooth bodied soft palate. Suzy CreamCheese would approve.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2006
at 19:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear copper body with a small creamy white head. Sweet floral hops aroma and some tea hints. Sweet floral hops flavor, some light citrus hops, and a gentle tea background.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2006
at 21:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Low fruity aroma. Citrus and summer fruit flavor with a big earthiness that lingers. Medium body. Some resin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2006
at 14:26
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Just what I like best from Lagunitas. Dark amber / brown pour with a lasting tan head. Aroma is full of hops, citrus, and pine. Taste is even more hoppy with tones of citrus, pine, malt, and floral tones. Well balanaced and smooth.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2006
at 21:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Iβd like to dedicate this rating to DaSilky1. Fresh, late-2006 bottle consumed on 8/4/06.
Strong initial white head sits atop a peanut-butter/golden mix of colored liquid. Filtered, clear, big bubbles show forced carb, obviously, because Lagunitas dosent "keep it real".
Smells, hmmmm, actually one of the more dry smelling Lagunitas beers. I was ready to get attacked by hops (I did), but I didnt get blasted with an equal dose of caramelly-syrupy malt. More of a grainy, lighter colored malt base, is somewhat snappier, but is buried beneath an emergent fountain of citric and resinous hops. Some yeast sharpness on the very end? Maybe, or maybe itβs just hops.
The flavor is not as dry as hoped for, the lack of huge amounts of heavier crystal malts do not overwhelm with caramel sweetness, but still, there is a strong honeyish, bordering some light caramel tints. Hoppiness is assertive, heavy and very American. Citric and maybe a touch of very ligh flowers, but just tons of strong, somewhat sweet citrus fruits and dry pine resin. Alcohol is mostly well-concealed. The texture loosens almost immediately, as the fake carbonation falls off. By the end, the filtered body and dissipated carbonation create a syrupy, sugary, bitter mess which yours truly could not finish.
Strong initial white head sits atop a peanut-butter/golden mix of colored liquid. Filtered, clear, big bubbles show forced carb, obviously, because Lagunitas dosent "keep it real".
Smells, hmmmm, actually one of the more dry smelling Lagunitas beers. I was ready to get attacked by hops (I did), but I didnt get blasted with an equal dose of caramelly-syrupy malt. More of a grainy, lighter colored malt base, is somewhat snappier, but is buried beneath an emergent fountain of citric and resinous hops. Some yeast sharpness on the very end? Maybe, or maybe itβs just hops.
The flavor is not as dry as hoped for, the lack of huge amounts of heavier crystal malts do not overwhelm with caramel sweetness, but still, there is a strong honeyish, bordering some light caramel tints. Hoppiness is assertive, heavy and very American. Citric and maybe a touch of very ligh flowers, but just tons of strong, somewhat sweet citrus fruits and dry pine resin. Alcohol is mostly well-concealed. The texture loosens almost immediately, as the fake carbonation falls off. By the end, the filtered body and dissipated carbonation create a syrupy, sugary, bitter mess which yours truly could not finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2006
at 15:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark golden colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet fruity hop. Flavour is sweet fruity hop and citrus. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2006
at 23:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Golden, almost clear, with an off-white head. Citrus, malt, sweetness and pine in the aroma. Malty, sweet flavor with citrus and pine. Full body, and a lot of bitterness in the finish. Bitter but pleasant. (060720)
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2006
at 05:22