Lagunitas Nuevo Noir

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

Clear brown colour. Thin offwhite head. Sweet caramel aroma and malty. Sweet brown sugar flavour, some spices. Weak hints of yeast in the aftertaste. Not that bad, but it feels more like a brown ale.

Pours a medium copper color. Aromas of brown sugar/spice and a little fruit. Flavor is to sweet for me, strong spice flavors. Didn’t care to much for this one.

Pours copper, clear brown with thin ringing head. Sweet caramel, brown sugar, ripened plum aroma. Flavor of malt, brown sugar. Watery thin palate.

Bottle. Pours a transparent brown with a very thin white head, almost looks like coke. Smells very malty and sugary. Tastes malty, lightly sweet, and alcoholic. This beer should get a little better warmer.

Clear brown pour with a thin offwhite head. Ordinary aroma of dark malt and sweetness. The flavor feels also ordinary with its average dark malt, alcohol and fruits with a sweet finish.The body is light with an oily texture and medium carbonation. Average, too bad since it seemed like a good idea at first but it seems that it wasn’t properly executed.

Translucent ruby red, the off-white head hanging off the edges of my glass was the only thing that seperated this one from cranberry juice.
A decent balance of sweetness, yeast spices and booze. The latter being a little bit solvent-like, but not harsh enough to lose my interest.
Roasted malt body that had just enough sugar, the alcohol gave it a dry finish, but the yeast was quite discreet, too much for this type of Beer if you ask me. However, the cocoa aftertaste was pleasing. Like most of the Lagunitas line, I’m glad I tried it, but it didn’t bowl me over.

The Lure:
Raisins and figs present a mostly sweet panorama. Some roasted malts protrude, but walk back slowly. Appetizing, yet somehow boring.

The Festivities:
Caramel maltiness engulfs the figs. Low carbonation helps the fruity sweetness to bounce up, but this remains simple and subdued.

Transcendence:
Another square building.

Herbal, spicy hops, toasty bready malts and yeasty, lightly fruity notes blend nicely in the aroma. Clear, dark ruby brown with a low tan head that recedes to a lasting ring. Strong fruity flavour with sweet doughy marzipan and raisin flavours with fairly mild finishing bitterness that keeps it from being overly sweet. Medium body with lively effervesence that pleasures the tongue. Sampled on tap at Barcade with Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.