Lagunitas Freak Out

Formerly brewed at Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Petaluma, California USA

Cold 22oz bottle: Pours a clear golden orange color with a medium fizzy ivory head which dissolves and leaves nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is of perfume, wood, pine, and soap. Taste is mostly bitter with subtle malt; the perfume and soap are present. Crisp with a medium body and good carbonation. Ending is mostly bitter with a soapy perfume aftertaste.

Bomber: Pours a clear orange with a thin white head, citrus aroma with flowers, nice mouthfeel with oily texute, starts and ends more bitter, with a long hoppy burn. They should call this a double IPA.

hoppy aroma. amber, copper colored with a small white head. taste is hoppy. good but nothing amazing. a good ipa. flowery hops.

Rich, gold color bordering on orange with a tight, incredibly well-sustained, white head. Lots of tropical and orange fruit aromas with an encompassing sweetness that provides a great foundation for the aroma. Flavor is, oh so nice. Intense, hoppy notes with a solid, cleansing acidity. This was dry hopped to the point of tasting light hop pellets themselves. It is well balanced by a viscous, light caramel malt foundation that persists even with the hop flavor and acidity onslaught.

Amber with a rich head. Nice hop aroma of sharp pine cones. Crunchy grape nut hop flavour. Sharp and crunchy. Nice but a bit disappointing for a specialty beer.

Here’s to Frank! One of the best composers in the world. How fitting is it to have such a complex IPA suit such a complex composer. Marshmellowy head that dissipates fairly quickly (within 10 minutes) Orangeish yellow color. Nose is a strong piney grapefruit citrus. Flavor is amazingly complex. Malty, yes peppery comes to mind very very grapefruit sour hop flavor. Well balanced with a kick at the tail of the taste for the bitter hops. Nicely done!! Susie Creamcheese...What’s gotta into ya??

Pours medium straw colored, like freshly baled hay, with a 2-finger, fluffy white head. Aroma of heavy juicy piney hops, some caramel malt, and some berry and mangoey fruit. The taste is hoppy, piney, resiny, and fruity, with a sticky palate. I get some peppery mango and tangerine notes from this, and a caramelly finish. Nicely balanced and solidly complex, this one is very good.

Pours golden witha lsight haze. Thin white head rests on top. Big hoppy aroma, some citrus and some pine. Flavor is dry with lots of malt. Good soft mouthfeel with a nice bitter kick. Lovely.