Lagunitas Brown Shugga

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Petaluma, California USA

Bottle pours red brown copper clear with very short lasting fizzy head and no lace. The aroma is brown sugar apple brown Betty. The flavor is serious malt sweetness pushing the sugar note right in your face, along with some ale fruit undertones to help balance the sweetness. The palate is rich and sticky. Overall, this is good as a sipper.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance: oily amber brown with yellow shaded tint on top. Brisk crown.
Nose: mid heavy aroma of brown malts, light hint of hops finishing with alcohol bite 6+
Flavor/Palate : heavy bodied. Base of brown malts with juicy blend of alcohol and hops. Warm, richness of character, slightly rough and rustic. Brown sugga …Drinkable slightly sticky ale that should be sipper.

Starts nice and bitter than sweetens up. Does taste like beer candy. Very malty and noticeably brown shugga-ry. Appropriate name, appreciate the Stones reference. Very nice seasonal from a kickass brewery. Thanks again hippies!

Bottle... Poured amberish with an off-white head. Aroma of brown sugar, bitter hops and grains. Good, fizzy palate that became a little chewy towards the back of my palate. Sweet alcohol flavors with leafy hops and resinous flavors before the malted grain finish took over.

Appearance: Ruby red, small whispy head. Aroma: Hops, pineapple, apples, candy floss and malt. Wonderful. Flavour: Wow, apples, hard candy, fruit, alcohol in the finish. Superb.

I found this one to come on way too strong. I see it is considered a barleywine which I don’t think I’ve had before so maybe it is the style. Nice molasses brown color; a little thick but not syrupy. I can’t see this being sweet at all. This is my first Lagunitas and I know people like them....but I don’t like this one.

12 oz bottle. Hardy copper/amber pour with a nearly non-existant white head. Non-descript hops with slight malt and brown sugar aroma. Flavor dominated by hops, not overly bitter, just overly present. Not sure how anyone could get sweet out of this. I want to sit and disect this but it’s just an IPA with some brown sugar. Clean finish sure, drinkability good especially for the abv. Probably great if you’re a straight hop head. The base of the beer tastes like EVERY SINGLE other beer I’ve had from Lagunitas. Malt and roast are just too words they don’t like to incorporate. It’s like they just keep taking their IPA and adding different small items and calling it a different named Strong Ale. Everybody is always so high on this brewer and I guess I just don’t get it. West Coast bitter beer, the thought being this is crisp and clean and organic in some instances. Rambled enough. I was unimpressed with this and will age 1 but look to donate the other 4 I have. Even their capuccino stout was just a heavy brown. Ok, now I’m done.

220z bottle pours brown, carb but no head. Aroma of dark malt and sweet carmel. Flavor is lasting: starts out brown sugar sweet then with alcohol warmth.