Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout

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

(Bottle) Pours dark brown to black with light brown, nougat coloured head. The aroma holds dark fruits, chocolate roast, mild coffee, caramel, liquorice/blackberry candy and mild resiny and tea-like hops. Undertones of milk, earth, vanilla, and a mild oxidation. The flavour is near medium sweet, light bitter and light acidic. The finish is light sweet. Tones of dark fruit, caramel, chocolate, light coffee and light vanilla alongside mild oxidation. The mouthfeel is creamy, almost velvety with a light carbonation. Milky and mild roasted coffee aftertaste. Medium bodied.

Pours a clear dark reddish mahogany with a thin but taller frothy slightly creamy beige head. Doesn’t look much like any stout I’ve ever seen. Okay, so I didn’t know this was an Autumn release, so I’m sure this bottle is over a year old... rats. Aroma is fairly sweet, soy, some faded hops, maybe some tart berries. Flavor is fairly sweet and chocolaty, chocolate syrupish, some remnants of PNW hops, a bit creamy, some roast acidity towards the back-end, really missing the coffee here. Finishing overpoweringly sweet, the bitterness doesn’t stand a chance. The balance of this is way off. Medium bodied, corse uneven rocky carbonation, disjointed syrupy and creamy chalky mouthful. Shall try again fresh. A very unusual stout, but I think I might like it. The hops are actually still hanging around quite a bit, bitter chocolate and citrus combo. Hides the alcohol exceptionally.

Bottle. Pours dark black with head. Coffee and roast aroma. Taste is deep dark and rich roast. Thick and fantastic.

BOTTLE: Black pour with red tones when held up to light. The cappuccino and chocolate were huge on the nose, body is a little thin, a little bitter on the back end (coffee and hop). Pretty good, but I wanted a little more out of the body and mouthfeel.

Bottle: Poured a cloudy black oil with a burnt brown head. The aroma was dark baking chocolate. Taste was rich with dark chocolate, suttle coffee bean, and slight bitterness.

Poured from a 22oz. bottle into a pint glass. The color is black with a red hue. Has a thick brownish head with some nice lacing. The smell is a bit malty, some coffee flavor that is present but not too heavy. The taste is creamy, a nice coffee flavor with some hints of a little bitterness. Has a nice milky flavor. This beer is balanced well with some really nice flavor character. It’s does not over power with flavor but is enjoyable with each sip.

The appearance is a glassy reddish brown. Ruby at the edges. Solid, foamy brown head. Rings of lace are solid. The aroma is sweet raisins and some darkly bitter mocha/coffee. Sweeter than expected. Less coffee than it is raisins and dates. The taste is roasted mocha coffee (cappuccino perhaps?). Nutty like a burnt brown ale. Some hazelnut balances the burnt-cookie malt. Sweet and also nutty. The feel is thick and milky; gritty on the way down. It’s sweeter than I expected but well-balanced. Not bad at all.

Pours brown with amber hues. Smellsof roasted malts, coffee, vanilla, and chocoalte. Tastes of coffee beans, dark chocolate, dark fruit, and vinailla. Dark creamy mouthfeel, with a rich body. Good stuff.