Lagunitas Kill Ugly Radio

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Petaluma, California USA

bomber. orange-ish brown pour with a medium tan head that disappears pretty quick - and a fair bit of lacing. a somewhat muted grassy hop aroma. sweet malt, caramel and tropical fruit taste. really good texture - but leaves me hanging a little with on the finish - probably wanting some more bitter bite. Good, but not great for my tastes.

An interesting brew. While drinking this, I thought it must be a in imperial IPA. I was a little shocked to see it wasn’t. Anyways, talk about fruity! Wow! It has a unique sweetness that is in a league of its own. Feels great going down and has a great lingering aftertaste. If you’re in the mood for a great sweet IPA with minimum bitterness, go check it out (if you can still find it).

pours sparkling medium yellow with a large white head. Aroma is lightly malty, heavily hopp of mainly grapefruit. Flavor starts balanced twords sewwt mainly, with grapefruit hop flavor dominating, finishes much the same, very one dimensional. light to med bodied, and watery

Thanks acknud...this beer is smooth and really damn good. Pours a golden color wtih a thin but foamy white head. Aroma is hoppy but also ciderish. Flavor is malty, almost like a boddingtons with a great hop bite. A little more hops and this would be world class!!!

Bottle: Golden pour with a very frothy head. Very frothy. Aroma is juniper and buttery hops. Not too highly carbonated, flavor is flat pine and very bitter. I get a tinge of cherry in the aftertaste here. Just average for me.

Biright orange, huge white head. Loud aromatics, spills out all over, vibrant, bright, shining out the full force of a pure, unadulterated hop attack. Pineapple, lemon, grapefruit, and all the needles on the pine forest floor. Gorgeous! There it is again in the taste, a sheer blast of bitterness. Pelting the palate with bitter hops, but also juicy fruit,...just enough malt to make it bearably, but this is an unabashed double IPA, a no-holds-barred, ball bruiser. Apart from the bitter blast, fairly smooth and creamy, not so far from drinkable, either. There’s something that creeps into the back of the throat that’s a bit unpleasant, a litter after-...something. A little drawback, that, I little drag away from delicious. But the big hop flavor I do enjoy, I do, I do. I’m really liking this...not as raw as the Hopslam I had earlier, less punishing.

I remember this being a pretty great beer. Well balanced, between the malt and the hops, but a lot of taste. The finish is bitter and then sweet.

Bottle at Chris_O’s 19th April 2008 tasting. Light gold with a hoppy aroma and a well-balanced flavour. Not too complex, just good. Very soft on the palate, with a nice coconut aftertaste. Good stuff.