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Lagunitas India Pale Ale 3.51 1098

Lagunitas India Pale Ale

Percentile
88
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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10983.52/5.03.51/5.05.7%78.5Shaker, Tulip
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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 DuffMan (2769), the land of bitumen, beef & beer, Alberta, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Feb 5, 2007  
An evening of Superbowl Party and many IPAs! This one was a solid hit, big and bitter, decent malt as well. My pick over Brooklyn brewery, but just behind Winterfish.


 Ibrew2or3 (2766), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Nov 5, 2006  
12oz bottle. Clear golden color with light red hue. Thin white head. Nice malt and pine hop aroma. Nearly balanced mix of malts and hops. Some mild caramel malts give way to piney hop bitterness that run up the flavor. This beer isn’t too hoppy but just about right for a standard IPA.


 harlequinn (2745), Tacoma, Washington, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jun 1, 2004  
A very nice golden appearance, with a big frothy head. Toasted malts, in the aroma, and strange unplaceable hop aroma. Very crisp, but full of toasted malt and it is just hard to get around. Slightly inconsistent from taste to taste. The hops are very present but then disappear in the next sip. So that was kind of irritating. Other than that a solid example of a west coast style IPA.


 Suttree (2742), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Apr 28, 2008  
Coppery orange, small white head. Great aroma - resin, pine, sticky hops. Flavor is, as one might guess, dominated by hops - resiny and sticky, but also nice notes of grapefruit and, uh, more grapefruit? Really hop dominated, and I really liked it. WBF, Raleigh.


 michael-pollack (2728), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/103/516/20
Aug 4, 2004  
12oz Bottle: Slight hoppy aroma, but not too much to speak of. Dark copper/brown color. Lots of floaters! Nice light colored head that lasted. Good lacing. Flavor much like an English IPA (true to style). Started off hoppy, but was also a bit sweet. Easy to drink. Overall, a pretty good IPA, but I prefer more of an APA style with more bitterness.


 Nuffield (2724), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/514/20
Aug 4, 2002  
I split a large bottle of this with my mother-in-law, and since she is a pretty cool mother-in-law, she really liked this. Without being too careful in pouring, it produced a huge head. The aroma was interesting--I thought it had a martini or Gin & Tonic-like aroma, plus something fruity--someone else has said mango, and that may be right. The flavor is well...IPA...you know...hoppy, somewhat (but not overpoweringly) bitter. Not complex, but nice.


 IrishBoy (2719), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Jul 15, 2006  
Nose is hops with a little caramel malt note.Amber in color with a small orange-tinged head. Very nice hop flavor with medium bitterness and some citrsy notes; aftertaste is slighlty bitter.


 notalush (2685), Denver, Colorado, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 13, 2004  
This is quite a fruity IPA, from the aroma of citrus and berries, to the strawberry color, to the abundant flavors of strawberries, cherries (do I detect a hint of raspberry?) - quite unique and odd - moderate hops and a strong, biscuit-like malt backbone for the fruit flavors to play off of - a unique experience - expect a malty ESB rather than an IPA, though.



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