Lagunitas Bourbon Barrel Cappucino Stout

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Petaluma, California USA

(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a spare tan head. Aroma of caramel, chocolate, vanilla, and grass. Flavor of roasted malt, caramel, light bourbon, wood, and cocoa with a dry, bitter, and lightly chalky finish.

On tap. Pours an opaque black with a tiny beige head. Nose has sweet hard roasted malt and chocolate with some bourbon accents. Medium body, very hard roasted malt, sweet chocolate and candy-like vanilla touches, wood and bourbon. Has a light malt bitterness in the finish. 110709

On tap at the brewery on the RBSG Saturday Tour, 2009 Dark brown, almost black with minimal tan head, like the crema on a cappucino. Nose of chocolate and coffee. Sweet, dry, hint of the bourbon. Maybe a little too sweet.

Draft at Max’s, Baltimore. Deep opaque black with some brownish edges. Rich and sweet, the coffee and the bourbon play off of each other quite well. Thick and full bodied. Semi-mild carbonation, but the bitter chocolate and hops more than make up for it. Well done.

From tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is vanilla and roasted dark malt. Sweet and bourbon flavoured. Light overripe fruity and vanilla flavoured. Dry and smooth coffee and chocolate malt. Smooth and vanilla fruity finish.

Cask. Blackish beer with a tan head. Bourbon aroma. Bourbon and caramel flavor with light vanilla. Medium bodied. Bourbon and light stone fruit lingers with caramel and light vanilla. The bartender was sure this was the Imperial Stout and not the Cap Stout, so it could be a different beer...

Name: Cappuccino Stout, BA
Date: July 11, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery
Appearance: opaque dark brown, scant head
Aroma: sweet chocolate and bourbon aroma, touch of espresso
Flavor: rich chocolate and bourbon flavor, nice coffee character, touch of bitter dark chocolate, vanilla sweetness
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Draught at the brewery during RBSG09. Black with a tan head. The aroma is just lots of sweet bourbon, with a hint of coffee coming through. Lots of bourbon in the flavor as well, but not much alcohol. Coffee, wood, and caramel show as well. On the lighter side for a stout this big, and it works well. The flavor on this was pretty simple, but nice. Much better than the regular version, which I really don’t care for at all, with its harshly vegetal coffee notes.