drainey (231), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | Jul 13, 2009 22 oz bomber. Beautiful reddish gold body with a small white head. Aroma is hoppy with a fruity sweetness. Flavor was hoppier than I expected, balanced by subtle sweet bread and caramel notes. Light carbonation and quite nice to drink.
Ethereal (1707), London, Greater London, England
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | Dec 30, 2009 Cask at GBBF 2009, 4th Aug 09. Hazy amber with some creamy head. Big malts and big hops on the nose and the tongue. Very flavoursome. mitchgt (13), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | Dec 28, 2009 Lagunitas Lucky 13 for my lucky (?) thirteenth rating. Pours a pretty brown amber orange with attractive half-inch or so soapy stick-around head. Caramel, hops and maybe raison on the nose. Creamy, substantial mouthfeel. Medium carbonation. Malty sweetness prolog to trailing bitter finish. Balanced. Very nice beer. BVery (674), Burnsville, Minnesota, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | Dec 19, 2009 BOTTLE: Killer stuff. I grab the bottle and read this very humble shout-out to other great brewers (printed on the label), then I try the bottle’s contents....and it takes a backseat to no one. Clear red-orange pour with a beautiful huge soapy head. Smells like a caramelized IPA - full aroma. Taste - pine hop with loads of creaminess that makes it very easy to drink (yet loaded with hop flavor), full mouthfeel - this is just an exceptional brew all the way around, and done in true Lagunitas style. Hats off - well done! Toxygen (402), Sanford, Florida, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 15/20 | Dec 16, 2009 (br-btl cm-lbl w/ horseshoe and girl, 22oz, O.G. 1.085, 77 IBU, 8.3%)
lct-ambr, lasting-thin-wt-head, crmy-med-full-body, med-co2.
Aroma: floral-pine-hop crml-roasted-malt §toasted-wood.
Taste:
T1 fresh-crmy-hops crml-malt.
T2 pine-resin-hops roasted-malt sweet-crml co2 §oaky.
T3 sticky-floral-hops sweet-woody-crml-malt not-bitter surprisingly-short T3.
intense flavor, but balanced, and fades quickly so as not to fatigue the buds. Sledutah (120), Utah, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | Dec 15, 2009 SLC tasting bash 12-11-09
Appearance: Pours a golden color with a small white head
Aroma: Fruit, floral and pine
Taste: Citrus, fruits and hops with some sweet malts. TheGent (169), , Massachusetts, USA
| 2.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 9/20 | Dec 12, 2009 a decent brew that tries to balance its malt sweetness with a hop bitter. red amber beer that says bready malt upfront but finishes with definite hop bitter punch. fidelis83 (729), Clinton, Iowa, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 | Dec 8, 2009 Pours deep garnet, more copper when held to the light with a 1-2 finger creamy beige head that has good retention and leaves a sand smear of lacing on the opposite side of the glass. Aroma is big on sweet caramel, citrus hops, rich floral notes, toasted nuts, some medicinal notes on the back end. Flavor is sweet, caramel and grainy malts right away, lots of sweet citrus (orange, tangerine and blood orange) light ceral and nutty notes, a little toffee and again light medicinal notes. Palate is medium bodied, syrupy-somewhat creamy throughout and lightly carbonated. Not too shabby really, were it not for the medicinal notes it would score higher, but as it is it is one of my favorite offerings from Lagunitas. FROTHINGSLOSH (2038), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 | Dec 6, 2009 Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a red-amber color with a large soapy orange-beige head The aroma was caramel, nut and full of fruity, floral and piney hops. The flavor was sweetish with notes of caramel, nut, fruity hops and pine. The finish was long, sweet and hoppy. The body was fairly thick. Well done.
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