Lagunitas Brown Shugga

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

12 ounce bottle from Brad
Pours very clear orangey brown with a dirty off white head. A decent amount of lace left behind.
I smell oranges, grapefruit, and pine air freshener.
Pretty mild flavor. Hop forward, but not the whole story. Plenty of carmely sweetness to go on with the pine and citrus.
Medium/light body. Oily and resinous. Left my lips kind of sticky. High carbonation. Fairly dry finish.
I was pretty pumped up to try this beer. It didn’t quite like up to what I was looking for, but they don’t most of the time. Still really good.

This is cool. A very strange overripe pear flavor, and an aftertaste that’s definitely spot-on brown sugar. The beer itself floats through stages of brown, barleywine and stout.

Love the label on this bomber. It pours out a murky pale orange to dirty brown with tan head. It does become clear with time. Nice barleywine smell with dark fruits, brown sugar, caramelization, pale malts and molasses. The flavor is sweet and sugary with essentially all that was noticed in the nose. I get plums, dates and candied peaches. These mix with malty caramelization, brown sugar and molasses. Very tasty but with out food accompaniment the sweetness does build up as the ounces are consumed.

Bottle. Pour is a beautiful, coppery brown color with a two finger head that is somewhere between tan and off-white. Aromas are decidedly sweet and have a bit of a piney hops lingering in the background. Brown sugar sweetness mixes with some toffee flavors that dominate the front end of the flavor spectrum, only to give way to a generous dose of piney hops that drive you down the homestretch. Well done brew, but not going to be one of my staples any time soon.

350 ml bottle from Holiday Wine Cellar. Pretty golden orange color with a small white head. Good sweet caramel, alcohol, and candy aroma. Caramel, molasses, and abundant hops to the taste with a nice bitterness and alcoholic warmth in the finish.

Caramel liquer aroma,with a good dosing of grainy hop,taste is a very pleasantcaramel and maple with more hops and a growing alcohol presence. ,Sweet and bitter finish,The malt and alcohol dominance precludes any hope of this being any outstanding barleywine,but a bottle of this is a good computer companion

No head, sweet aroma, very light. Lightly hopped, spiced flavor. Brown sugar barely noticeable. Overall very nice.

For a barley wine, it is very light, very sweet. Not super strong and malty. But that’s fine. This is a drinkable beer for those who don’t like barley wines and a nice easy barley for those, like me, who can’t get enough of barley wines.