This was good. A nice, light, IPA.

Very syrupy. Astringent, heavy on ginger notes. A hint of sweet umami means this ends up tasting oddly not unlike the filing of a Shanghai pork dumpling. At the very least, it was disturbing. It didn't taste like this the other day?

Fast tangy finish but gets lost in a strong caramel sweetness.

This was really good, although all told it was more red wine than beer. The stout was pretty hard to detect through all of the dry grape and brett funk. Rounded, only slightly bitter, with a lingering grapey fizz. This split opinion, but I liked it.

This is concentrated hop juice, pine and dank greenery. Despite that the finish is very light, not bitter at all. Not boozy - this was very strong-flavored, but not because of the alcohol. I was very pleasantly surprised.

Dark purple pour, lots of head. Somewhat bitter, dry hoppy sour. Sadly the sour is sort of a fruit sour, rather than the more pure type, so I'm not a big fan.

A great palate cleanser after the stout. Better than I remember, clearly hoppy but also sweet and cereal, finishing cleanly and without overt bitterness.

Spicy, bright booze flavor. Not too sweet.

Yeah, this tastes fresh all right, but also very bitter for a pale. Piney rather than fruity. Alcohol pokes through in a way I didn't quite like.

A double IPA? No way! This is super flavorful, with a ton of hop flavor, but also very smooth and slightly sweet; it finishes really mildly. This shared a lot of positive qualities with Stillwater Extra Dry, another sake-based beer, although this went in a different direction. Just as enjoyable and dangerously drinkable.

Actually, this time it tastes like a dry hopped sour. Which is what it says on the bottle. So one out of three ain't bad.

Definitely still spicy rather than sour.

A lot of head, coming out of this can. But we've had a lot of turbulence. Kind of a plant-y funky bitterness. A little like slightly rotting rutebega roots. It's okay not great, not terrible. I'd be hesitant to actually pay for it though

This tastes nothing like any other California Common I've had. It's primarily a fruit-hoppy beer with an amber hue and flavor. Not an IPA, but maybe a malt-bomb hoppy pale. It tasted a bit like a little sibling of Brown Shugga.

It's not particularly wild. Efforvescent, slightly spicy, like a wheat, or perhaps a field of slightly bitter prairie grass :^). It's decent for the type, I just wouldn't call the type a sour. More of a weisse.

Oooh, Hop-Juicy. A little hint of sweetness in the end. It's actually very interesting.

Resinous amber with weirdly sweet, bitter overtones. Yuck, I dumped two-thirds of this bottle.

Understated, slightly sweet smell. Flavor is a little like cherry cough syrup, but rather mild, with a slight bitter/brackish undertone. It's not offensive, but it doesn't really do it for me.

Unexpectedly good hoppy ale from Lagunitas - this was much more a toasty-malty pale than what I would call an IPA (especially from this brewery). Clean, pith-less hop flavors made this refreshing and interestingly-flavored.

Just tastes like a normal stout to me . Not particularly roasty, nothing really stands out .But it seems perfectly fine.

Very much an IPA, but isn't almost everything from Lagunitas, in disguise? :) Vibrant and fruity, which was nice, but with a metric fuck-ton of bitterness. Just a ton.

I don't know if this was mislabeled. The keg backs up the attribution, but it tasted more like a fresh hop IPA than anything alt-like - hoppy, yellow and fruity. So I have a hard time believing it was correct.

Opens reminiscent of a better dry-hopped cider, with floral hop notes, but tangs quite quickly to a sincere sourness. I appreciated the boldness of the flavor; most "apple ales" are timid at best. This ends with a very clean, cereal finish. Surprisingly good offering from Lagunitas.

Hoppy, thick, bitter. The level of bitterness is appropriate for a Pils. However it should have a crystal clarity which this simply does not possess.

Still one of the best stand-by IPAs out there.

Notes of brown sugar mixed with hops hit you up front. Finishes bitter as a proper strong ale should.

Peppery IPA. Okay, I guess.

Loads of plum and chocolate on the nose. Mocha notes round out this heavy hitter. I've got another aging for comparison.

Nice fruit notes on the front, with hop notes throughout. Has a slight sweet finish.

Yes. Just as great out of the bottle. More, please.

The scent made me hesitate. But the taste is good. A thread of bitterness winds around a thread of coppery sweetness.

Interesting I suppose. Tastes (and smells) likea pils mixed with an IPA in about a 3 to 1 ratio.

A roasty, very dry porter. It opens a bit like a Baltic porter, with a hint of cherry and wood. This favorable first impression starts to muddle a bit as Belgian flavors come in, quad-like but a little discordant, and then the finishing bitterness comes off as ashy over time. Ok, but I regretted not getting the High Westified instead.

Fragrant hop juice IPA, which for a Lagunitas surprised me with its pleasant flavor. Nice wild yeast funk rounds out the finish in a way that is neither too weird nor sour. If anything, it shows up more as a faint wine-like quality. I liked this so much more than I expected!

We all avoided this at Big Wood because someone said it wasn't great, but this was really, really good. Just enough rye against a good coffee stout flavor wrapped in a creamy froth of a finish. No cloying anything. (7 oz schooner)

Smell of citrus and pine. On the palate it begins quite sweet, almost sugary, with citrus flavors. Finish gives a hint of bitterness that quite nicely rounds the flavor out. I've never had anything quite like it, and it's very well done.

Couldn't really taste this one well after the previous incredible (and strong) beers.

It's almost a joke how little I was able to taste this one after the rest.

Not bad in general, with good coffee flavor, but has a cloying sweetness that can get annoying fast.

Too sweet

Does the strong malt / strong hop balance much better than either the Brown Shugga or the Sucks, to my memory. I thought this one was tasty and drinkable.

Fruitier/sweeter IPA. Not bitter

Scent of grapefruit. A juicy taste like a mild grapefruit IPA. Not bad.

So much hops

Hoppy for sure, but nothing that really stands out.

Holy malt, Barman. Strong and sweet and bready, and surprisingly un-hoppy for a Lagunitas brew.

Yummy! Thin sweetness on the tongue and caramel roast middle to finish. Fine bitterness to the finish.

A lot like the Brown Shugga but with a bit of acrid bite on top, which actually helps balance out the flavor. I found myself appreciating the other beer more after trying this.

Out of the bottle it wasn't revolting like it was on draft the other week. It's still kind of a war between the fruit-hop side and the malt and I still wouldn't choose it for myself.

Fragrant, hoppy, brown -- a typical Lagunitas flavor profile. I liked it but probably won't remember it for a long time.

I thought this was undrinkable, like someone dumped a resiny, bubblegum-sweet double IPA into an Oktoberfest and left it to die in the woods. What's weird is I had this bottled last Winter and thought it was okay.

One of my absolute favorite "daily drinkers". Super versatile. Summer in a bottle.

A balanced and basic IPA if a bit boring. Easy as a go-to session beer, there's nothing offensive about this but it does display a good balance of malt and hops true to the IPA style. Slight hop nose but not very strong. Slight bit of bitterness on the end but mostly overpowered by the malt. Less hoppy than a lot of the other mainly IPAs. In general, it's true to style and a balanced but not nearly as hopped/flavorful/bitter as a Stone IPA. No head to speak of.

Fragrant, fruity-sweet citrus hops with a clean and dry malt finish. Nice, tingly and well-balanced -- somehow manages to be all about hops without being a typical Lagunitas hop bomb.

Lagunitas markets this as a "pale wheat ale," and this might have scored higher if they hadn't. This tastes like a peppery IPA, hugely aromatic and with moderate amount of slightly acid, pithy bitterness at the end. Expecting something else, I couldn't enjoy it much at all today.

Another solid $3.99 stout.

Very malty, very hoppy.

In my notes: 6.5/10

Decent, but I don't love the way Lagunitas does IPAs. A little bit lacking in that explosion of freshness.