Lagunitas Censored (Kronik)

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Petaluma, California USA

Slightly cloudy amber color. Aroma is a little hoppy, with some pine in there amongst the citrus.

Hazy amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is American hops, mostly pine, with citrus and peach, and some malt with the faintest hints of bread and caramel. Sweet and fruity, tastes like an apricot initially, with a good, long lasting piney bitterness to follow.

Bottle sampled at the Newtown brewfest with the Mad_Indian. Pours amber with a small beige head. Aroma of caramel, citrus, and piney hops. The flavor is sweet, caramel, citrus, light fruit, and a good hoppy finish.

Copper coloured with a fine head. Vanilla, roiboos, caramel and orange fills ones nostrils, but in a vague manner. The flavour is acceptable but nothing special with its caramel, bitter and citrus like taste that fades out in a metallic quit boring appendix.

Pours dark amber with a fully receding tan head. Aroma of piney citrus hops and caramelized wort. Taste is pretty typical for Lagunitas, dominated by citric west coast hops with sweet malt playing the supporting role. Mouthfeel is full bodied, lightly sticky and resinous with lush carbonation.

Aroma is faint but sweet malts. Clear amber hue with an off-white head. A well balanced ale. Palate is watery flat. A bit below average for the style.

Bottel. No head, fine looking color dark and deep. barlywine aroma, intence malty taste with just the right bitterness.

Muggy looking dark honey gold. Small fluffy capping of off-white/lightly yellowed foam. Once faded it keeps a solid skim always present. Lacing is lightly sticking in a few spots and broken strings. Aroma is muggy sweet with dullish citric notions of lemon, grapefruit, orange, and melon. A pithy dryness levels it off with a mild pine sense and some flowery hop oils. Taste is developed well in a lightly gooey maltedness of tropical citrusy stuff. Wrapped around it is a nice display of fluffy pithyness of orange and lemon. Delicatley flowery and somewhat oily, perhaps a touch of honey, but most definately pithy. Lots of orangey stuff tanging it up, juicing it down, and squeezing it into the palate. Lightly toasted parts sneak through as it warms. Finish is easy-going on the bitterness, quite tame in that respect. It has a certain pithy/piney pull to it as it fades with orange oils, but never is a burden to handle. Firm, medium bodied feel, creamy with a slight snap and crunch of citrusy hop and carbonation. Lightly toasted with an oily background and a frontal area that seems to always stay present of citrus orangey pith and dryness. A nice drinker of an ale here. Good depth and hop character throughout, as it always keeps interesting with subtle layers of toasted citrusy stuff. Solid stuff.