Lagunitas India Pale Ale

Pour is amber, piney aroma that is the high point of this beer, after the first sip the beer becomes an amber ale, sweet and malty with a light hop flavor. relatively heavy mouthfeel

Pour is medium golden with long lasting white fluffy head. Aroma is of fresh crisp hops and some pine. Flavor is up front hoppy with some malt aftertaste. I’m guessing that with all of the different hops and malts used in this, it must have been made with all of the extra ingredients from the brewery. I can’t see a reason to add that many ingredients to a beer. There is no possible way for someone to distinguish each flavor in the beer. It is actually a physical impossibility because our tongue is not that sensitive. Still a good beer. May buy again.

On tap at the Map Room in Chicago. A pretty good IPA. nothing to write home about.

65 malts and 43 hops? Is that a record, or a joke? Malt-floral aroma. Amber brew. Solid, grapefruity hops. Bracing and forceful, but not harsh. Good.

A decent IPA. The aroma is really grassy even for an IPA. Overall I enjoyed it, but it didn’t have the fully rounded taste that other IPAs like Stone’s has. A pretty plain, average IPA. I’ll probably stick to Stone and Dogfish Head.

Clear light amber body with a short lived tan head. Not a pronounced aroma but a nice one. It is full of hop with pine and floral notes along with some caramel malt. A big tart hop bite nips the back of the throat at first sip but that quickly fades to a dry bitterness. Grapefruit, grass and floral flavors. 108 varieties of hop and malt?! A good IPA but not quite exceptional.

Lagunitas ipa is opaque amber in color and when poured into a shaker, yeilds a thick foamy head. It has scents of pine and citrus that entice your tongue. Once you finally taste it you find that the hops have a nice bitterness to them which continue to follow into the aftertaste. I am still new to reviewing beers but i found this to be one of the best ipa’s i have tried so far.

Aggressive pour left a three-finger head above an orange/amber body with lots of rising carbonation. Moderate pine and citrus - grapefruit - hops aromas, but not overpowering. Hops flavors are strong, but immediately countered by a light maltiness. Hops bitterness lingers in the aftertaste. Medium bodied, less carbonation than expected.