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Lagunitas India Pale Ale 3.51 1099

Lagunitas India Pale Ale

Percentile
88
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
10993.52/5.03.51/5.05.7%78.6Shaker, 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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 nearbeer (1868), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Dec 1, 2007  
Bottle. Clear orange-copper with a medium-sized and lasting head. Spicy tea leaf and floral-honey aroma. Initial flavor is earthy-spiced honey and pekoe tea, turns more to a toasted bitter nut and dried wood. Finally finishes with a pleasant woody, earthy, dry cocoa aftertaste. Palate is smooth and nearly medium-bodied with a dry finish. Not your typical West Coast IPA.


 mgumby10 (1858), Jupiter, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Jun 8, 2007  
POurs a hazy orange with a small white head. Smells of some floral citrus and hops. Not a huge hop presence, but its there. Some grapefruit too. The taste is semi-mild, kind of a sweet hoppiness to it. Some cinnamon and other spices show up. Some grapefruit citrus arrives from the hops. Nicely balanced and fairly easy to drink. Nice job on this beer. Kind of a fruitier IPA.


 Crosling (1856), Loveland, Colorado, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 19, 2005  
Clear salmon tinted orange with a beautiful, full head of creamy foam. Butter and caramel, with loads of hop resin in the aroma, spruce and medicine jar. Malt is very lush and bold, creamy and full with a rich caramel, toffee and fruit flavor and I believe there may be some diecetyl, but in a desireable way. The hops are spicy and piney and could stand to be kicked up a notch or two, to be honest. I find it quite nice.


 LinusStick (1851), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/516/20
Oct 2, 2007  
A nice IPA from those who know hops. Their special releases are a bit better than this, but this is a good IPA. Aroma of grassy hops with a bit of sticky malt. Pour was a nice dark orange with a one finger white head. Taste was mostly grassy and earthy hops with a nice malt backbone. The malt balanced the beer out perfectly which I actually don’t like as much as the overly hoppy IPAs. Nice.


 CharlesDarwin (1849), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
May 21, 2006  
Julios Spring Beer Festival. Aroma of distinctly Cascade hops (a trend I would continue to find at this festival). Pour of lightly hazed golden amber. Flavor follows with a swift kick of West Coast hopy fury, but reigned back and fairly balanced. The palate is a little thin for me, but smacks nicely of cranberries. Solid.


 Sham (1846), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 18, 2003  
Pours a nice light amber-red with good head. Floral aroma with citrus and hops. Nice fruity taste with hints of pine, and a pleasant hop finish. Silky palate. A very decent IPA, not enough hops for me though.


 thegreenrooster (1846), St.louis, Missouri, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/101/56/103/514/20
Jan 20, 2007  
Pour is a orange with a white head. Aroma is deffinatly hops. Flavor is hoppy and malty with a bit of metal in there. Pretty striaght forward IPA.


 SDbruboy (1832), San Diego, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 23, 2003  
Gorgeous orange-amber color with thick white head and nice lacing. Nice sweet malts and balancing hops. Full bodied and lightly carbonated. Good IPA



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