Lagunitas Nuevo Noir

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

Leather-brown and red, but clear. Almost no head out of the bottle. Aroma is baked apple with some spice. Taste is very good; malty with background of spice, raisins, and brown sugar. Finish is clean, not sticky sweet. A nice understated Belgian.

Clear bowon with nice fluffy head. Nose of apples. Decent to good mouthfeel. Very mild malt accents. A nice little beer.

Bottle. A elegant dark tea brown color with a lush light brown head. A candy spiced malt aroma with ginger, cinamon and orange peal. A spiced, brown sugar, earthy Belgian, and pepper flavors. The finish is mildly sweet and dry.

Eh.... Not so much. Disappointed with this one. Shelf life of the keg came into question also. After a few days it poured like a cask. Bitter and not in a good way. Phunky. Good Brewery though they could afford to kill this one.

Clear reddish brown appearance, decent head formation. Predominant malt aroma, bready raisins, mild chocolate. Mildly chocolaty malty intro, burnt raisins, dry nuttiness comes later with a fair hoppy bitterness coming in late. Finishes fairly smooth.

(Draft: 2005 Oregon Brewers Festival in Portland, OR) Not too much aroma going on with this beer, slight sweetness, a bit of Belgian influence I guess. Definitely more Belgian in the flavor, and it comes across as a mild Dubbel. Sweet, but not sugary, and the milid Belgian spice tends to cut down on the sweetness. Mild bitterness picks up steam in the finish. A bit thin despite the sweetness, and a bit dry in the finish too. Muddy, light brown color is very cloudy at first, but settles out to a clear liquid. Light tan head fades fast. Decent, but not enough "Belgian" in it. Let’s call it a Belgian Light. Look forward to trying this again under better tasting conditions.

Nice & fruity if rather subtle, which of course is okay. Along with some plum and other fruit I pick up a sweetness (malt) that’s evident in so many of their beers. Understand not messing with something that’s going right, but wish they would make larger leaps as I blieve they could and still wind up with a nice pup. Thanks to both Lagunitas for the draught and Rich for the bottle.

Aroma of overipe plums and nectarines, over toasty bread, with a dash of horseblanket. Appears a crystal clear deep red-brown, like brandy, with slight effervescence of mild bubbles, and a thin head that dissipates quickly. Flavor is sweet, sugary, malt, with the slightest toast, over a horseblanket finish - well-balanced but odd. Palate is medium-light with pleasant effervescence. Overall, this beer is quite pleasant though odd.