Tonight's beer: Lagunitas Brown Shugga'
Musky-floral bitterness, backed by grapefruit and other citrus (orange? lime?), flecked with pine and grass. Bready sweetness through the middle, woven with threads of chocolate and toast and caramel, maybe other roasty-toasty impressions deep in th e structure. Snaps from that momentary sweetness to stiffly dry.
A little thick and chewy, but not heavy, with lots of resinous-syrupy stickiness. Eventually, gently drying and something like refreshing. Basically no hint at all of the 9.8% ABV payload the beer is packing.
Part brown ale, part barleywine, part IPA, hints of Belgian around the edges; entirely its own thing. Complex as hell, searingly intense; probably not really balanced, but wonderfully well-integrated. Alarmingly drinkable, not at all boozy. While I'm ... ambivalent about Lagunitas' business decisions, they brew some excellent beer.
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| Lagunitas Brown Shugga' |
Musky-floral bitterness, backed by grapefruit and other citrus (orange? lime?), flecked with pine and grass. Bready sweetness through the middle, woven with threads of chocolate and toast and caramel, maybe other roasty-toasty impressions deep in th e structure. Snaps from that momentary sweetness to stiffly dry.
A little thick and chewy, but not heavy, with lots of resinous-syrupy stickiness. Eventually, gently drying and something like refreshing. Basically no hint at all of the 9.8% ABV payload the beer is packing.
Part brown ale, part barleywine, part IPA, hints of Belgian around the edges; entirely its own thing. Complex as hell, searingly intense; probably not really balanced, but wonderfully well-integrated. Alarmingly drinkable, not at all boozy. While I'm ... ambivalent about Lagunitas' business decisions, they brew some excellent beer.
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