Lagunitas New DogTown Pale Ale

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

Bottle from Craft. Pours chill hazy gold with 1-finger white head. Nose is resiny hops, piney, peppery, with notes of tangerine. Tastes piney, sticky, on the bitter side, with resiny hops and tangerine flavors. Solid.

Clear orange pour with loads of sediment. Sweet hops on the nose. Very tasty smell. Taste is sweet hops upfront with a stout bitterness that follows. Taste is a very dry bitter that finishes with a tad bit sweetness. Pretty good, I like it.

Clear dark yellow with a fizzy white head. Grass and caramel aroma and taste with some dandilion notes. Decent.

Bottle. Citrus aroma, grapefruit, pines, lemon. Taste is clean bitter. Clear golden color with just a covering of head

US trip Aug/Sept 2009 - Bottle - notes indicate i found this one citrussy with a nice clean finish. Good beer

12oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear, orange-golden body with a finger-width, off-white head that dissipates quickly and leaves lots of streaky lacing. Aroma explodes with hops. Lots of sweet, piney grapefruits, apricots, and papaya. A nice amount of sweet caramels and crystal malts keep this aroma balanced, but its clearly about the hops. Love it. The flavor is exactly the same. Tons of grapefruit pines and apricots with a medium bitterness level. Thinner caramels and crystals balance this nicely with a bit of a chewy feel. Light bodied with a crisp, dry finish and a very long lingering aftertaste of piney fruits and some wood. A light carbonation level makes this quite refreshing. Overall, I’m digging this. Lots of taste in a light, crisp bodied pale ale. This is a pale ale done right. Delicious.

12oz bottle thanks to photomike. Brewery sources tell me that this is Dogtown blended with Kill Ugly Radio, and regular Dogtown is not coming back any time soon. Censored is also being phased out (thank god) if anyone cares. New Dogtown is a dark gold-amber hued beer with a lasting white head. Crystal clear as you would expect from a pale beer from Lagunitas. The aroma has some sugar-pine and tropical fruit going on, with some underlying caramel and cake. The flavor has a nice balance between piney hops and sweeter fruitiness. Bitterness just wins out in the finish, but you feel the malt is a light lingering sweetness and medium body. Going into this, it seemed like it should have been an IPA, but the balance and hops really suggest a robust pale ale with a nice malty body to go with the hops. No frills here really, but a nicely done pale ale

Pours orange and with little head from a bottle culled from a collection of craft beers in a Costco variety pack. Smells pretty good, but the taste is strange. A bit fruity or perhaps slightly rotten tasting. I’ll drink it, but it’s a little funky for my liking. It definitely makes me think "Lagunitas" - it’s hoppy and has some Lagunitas-y quality I can’t put my finger on, but it’s not my favorite brew of theirs. I think they do IPA’s best.