Lagunitas Lumpy Gravy

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Petaluma, California USA

Puffy off-white head ahbove a dark, glassy copper color. Massive upswim of tiny carbonation bubbles. Chunky, milky lace. Nicely balanced bitter-on-bitter aroma. First hops, then toasted malt. Hops are of the California, pine variety. In the malt, burnt dark chocolate and coffee notes. Smells dark; malt wins the battle. Burnt chocolate malt sets the table for all the other flavors. Some smokyness. Hops come out in the aftertaste. Could use a tad more sweetness for balance, but quite pleasant. Feels milkyh and leaves a nice malty layer. A good -- if not spectactular -- amber ale. Just a nibble of bitterness in the malt. Smooth and very mellow.

Poured from a bottle at the Brewery, RBSG 09 Saturday Tour. Medium brown with a tint of red with medium tan head. Sweet, malty nose, bit of fruit. Taste was sweet with malts, caramel and some hops. Dry finish.

Bottle. Pours a mahogany body with a tan head. Sweet and malty caramel, dried fruit, hints of apple and caramelized sugars. Darker fruit and a mild warming. Nice.

12/15/2007: Lumpy Gravy pours a clear mahogany with a thin beige head. The aroma is lightly caramelly with some nutty caramel. The flavor is also malty, lightly roasty with some coffee, and some nuttiness as well. There is a light bitterness that grabs at the back of the throat. This beer is smooth and quite enjoyable.

22 fl. oz. bottle (Alc. 7.2% by Volume) shared by Rob. Thank you! Rating #447 for this beer.

2008 Bottle - Pours reddish amber with a small ring of beige...aroma is caramel malty and a bit of sweet apple...flavour is malty up front, chewy brown sugar, with a bit of toasted bread and light resiny bitterness at the end...probably the least bitter brew these guys have made, good balance and pretty tasty...

Bottle at the brewery during RBSG09. Red-brown with a lasting head. Lots of brown sugar and caramel in the aroma. Sweet caramel and light roasted malt flavors with a bitter, hoppy finish. Medium bodied and sticky. Pretty typical of these guys in the ASA range; a bit too sweet, but still with plenty of hops. Not one of their better interpretations of this formula, but still pleasant enough.

Copper color, clear, with a tan head...Malty sweet aroma...Roasty and toasty...Medium body, smooth carbonation...Smooth taste...Frank Zappa wouldn’t approve because he didn’t drink...But I do...

***review from May 10, 2008***
Poured out a clear deep copper brew with a good sized, fairly thick tan head that sticks around for a bit and leaves random lacing. For whatever reason this beer went straight to my head. It’s not like I’m drinking on an empty stomach or something - I did eat 4 huge bowls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and hour ago. This is an odd beer. The aroma is fairly unique it seems and I’m sure my description won’t show that so you’ll need to find out and discover where this beer thinks it’s going for yourself. Caramel and toasted malts, nutty, and somehow these malts blend in with the slight but dark fruitiness to give out a fairly fragrant smell. The taste is a let down or not depending if you want something different or not. Unfortunately the flavour doesn’t hit home with me: big malts {INTERLUDE - if one pours this beer from a foot above the rim of the glass it makes a volcano of foam..... try it!} More huge malts, in fact the malts are really dominant. The more buzzed I get the more I like this. The alcohol taste weakens when this warms... I’m not really sure how much alcohol can be found as I think the unwelcome presence of the hop mixture is screwing with me. HAIL NEVERMORE! Malts get close to that burnt taste. Some fruit flavour (unsweetened grapefruit and and dark fruit that may just be an effect of the massive malt content messing with my tastebuds) and the hops give out a nasty flavour on the finish. Mouthfeel is decent I guess. Smoothish sometimes. More than medium bodied. Fluctuating in strength ick bitterness. Decent carbonation. I could give this a 2.5 or a 3.5. I’m probably drunk - using the BeerPal Chat as my personal unread blog to discuss Love Bites by Judas Priest, Joe Perry from Journey, socks and sandals with myself. Bloggers are pathetic losers. Die.