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Lagunitas India Pale Ale

Lagunitas India Pale Ale - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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 Percentile 
88
overall
Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Petaluma, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
10823.52/5.03.51/5.05.7%78.1Shaker, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
This is our unique version of an ancient style. A style as old as the ocean trade routes of the last centuries Great Ships. Not as old as the equator they had to cross twice enroute, nor as old as the 10,000 or so miles of Di-Hydrogen Oxide and Sodium upon which they sailed, but older than the Circulithium-4 Lentloid that binds the Lupulin Quartnate onto your taste buds. Weird. Think about it. Now stop. OK, go again, now stop. Think again, and stop. But we digress. Made with 43 different hops and 65 various malts, this redolent ale will likely float your boat, whatever planet you're on.
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 arondee (176), Tucson, Arizona, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Sep 6, 2008  
Poured orange/red with a medium sized foamy white head. It smells of fruit, citrus, a little bit of hops. Taste is not very bitter, kind of an earthy hop taste. The aftertaste doesn’t linger long and this would make a good session beer. It seems like it missing something that could make it even better.


 emacgee (1859), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/517/20
Sep 4, 2008  
Pours a copper orange with a one finger creamy light yellow head. The nose was very resinous and hoppy, sweet, citrusy, lightly piny and earthy, spicy, mandarin orange. The flavor is mostly earthy herbal hops, lightly citrusy, some pink grapefruit. The mouthfeel could have been more substantial.


 maugus4ever (121), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 4, 2008  
Pours copper with a thin off-white head. Has a sweet fruity aroma. Nice flavor that has a little more malt than I expected for this IPA, but the hops balance out these malts nicely and leave you with a bitter finish.


 Jmichael (633), Asheville, North Carolina, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 3, 2008  
pours a copper amber with mild head, light hop citrus aroma. Light on the palate and bitterness, citrus on the back, good stuff.


 drjay44 (758), Salida, Colorado, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/512/20
Sep 1, 2008  
12 oz. bottle. Pours a nice head, pleasant golden copper color, nose of spice, bit of pine, with malt overtones, initial tastes of spice, then hop bitterness.


 kpresley77 (133), Jackson, Georgia, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/520/20
Sep 1, 2008  
Bottle pours clear amber with thin white head. Aroma is sweet malt. First taste is sweet fruit and malt with slight hops bitterness which balances out. There is a mild citruis hops finish and the carbonation is perfect. This one of my top five beers.


rthbass (27), Vancouver, Washington, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/514/20
Aug 31, 2008  
On tap at Mcmenamins on the Columbia.
Pours medium amber in color with an off-white head and very clear. Very unique flavor. The hops are good and definitely there as well as a nice cinnamon spice note. Very interesting ginger soy sauce flavor. Not my first choice for an IPA but points for originality!


 Lagunitasfan (432), San Diego, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/516/20
Aug 31, 2008    Updated: Dec 27, 2008
Not a fresh bottle. Had to pour slowly to keep the quarter inch of sediment down. Dark amber. Almost no head because of cautious pour. Lots of great flavors. Pine, citrus, bitter, yummmmmmmy.



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