Lagunitas A Little Sumpin’ Extra! Ale

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Petaluma, California USA

On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown on 10/20/2009. Fairly clear golden amber body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet citrus and resiny hop aroma. Sweet, slightly sticky, citrus and resiny hop flavor with a pale malt background. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.

Pour is golden yellow with a small white head. Nose is citrus, primarily lemon and grapefruit. Also orange and hops. The taste is similar with a bigger sense of hops and sweet bready malt. The palate is thin and enjoyable. A great ipa...I don’t think you can truly call it a double ipa though.

Unfiltered, orange appearance with lacy white head. Citrus hop aroma with medium bitterness. Light body with average carbonation and a bitter finish. Very good 2X IPA

22oz bottle-pours a big tight rich offwhite head with gold color. Aroma is great lemon/second grapefruit, slight light malt. Taste is great sweet lemon/second grapefruit, pepper, light malt-caramel, some alcohol, yeast.

Great Imperial IPA. Deep amber color with a frothy white head. Strong citrus notes in the aroma, as well as some citric hops. Very solid. Light bitter finish, with a strong sense of hops. Warm feeling as well. Another solid brew from Lagunitas.

pours a clear pale yellow-orange with a medium size white head, and very good lacing. smell is of orange peel, some spice, ash, floral, and some hops. taste of grapefruit hops, orange peel, spice, and some caramel, ends nicely bitter.

A Lil’ Sumpin Sumpin is going to be a tough act to follows, Lagunitas. Best of luck, though! Appearance: Pours out a faintly hazed, amber-hued body with a medium-small, frothy, off-white head. Smell: Heady mixture of pale, lightly toasty, vaguely sweetish maltiness and aromatic hop notes of astringent pine resin, sugar-coated grapefruit rinds, and a pervasive, underlying earthiness. Taste: Sweet-tasting pale malts with a light touch of toasted grains. Small, buried hints of malted wheat in the taste, though this could just as easily be the product of a diseased, alcohol-ravaged mind, so who knows for certain. Then, in come the hearty dose of hops with strong, sharp floral, citrusy, earthy, pine-based tastes and a moderate amount of tongue-scalding bitterness. Toasty touches persist in the latter half, but, mainly this is the realm of the bitter hops (at least for me). I would say this finishes bittersweet, but it’s more like 75% bitter and 25% sweet. So, it finishes bittermoresweetless. Yes, that sounds about right. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. A bit oily and even sticky in the mouthfeel. Drinkability: Well, it’s a run-of-the-mill Double IPA for me, having left behind the grace and ease of it’s younger cousin, going back to bitter and basic and not too terribly far removed from their other basic, bitter brews.

bottle. pours orange, white head. aroma of grassy hops, citrus fruits, and pine, yeasty nose flavor, citrus hops, some char malty caramel notes, mild bitterness and spices. Sweet sugary notes, grapefruit, finishes with bitter hops and the signature Lagunitas mouthfeel that can get a little tiring at times.