Dark Swan by Lagunitas Brewing Company ABV 8.70% American Wild Ale An experimentally hopped sour ale fermented with dark red wine grapes. Observers of yestercentury once doubted the existence of the Dark Swan, stating the fair-feathered fowl was the only color of its kind. Explorers eventually upended that theory, shocking the world and shining light on…
Brewer’s Pale Ale (Nelson Hop Blend) by Anchor Brewing Company 5.3% ABV Brewers’ Pale Ale is a bright and fruity American Pale Ale bursting with hop aroma and flavor. Its appearance is straw colored with a creamy, white head and nice lacing. The ale has aromas of grapefruit, passion fruit, citrus peels and dank piney…
Surly Brewing released this gluten reduced IPA recently which will feature different hop varieties each batch. This one features BRU1, Chinook and Citra hops. The hop variety will be printed on the bottom of the cans so you can tell which batch that can is. For reference, this is batch F4121. (see pic below) We analyzed this IPA…
Pastrami Pilsner 5.5 IBU’s Shmaltz’s Brewing Company Pastrami Pilsner summons savory sensations reminiscent of the quintessential Jewish tradition. Shmaltz’s brewing team stacked the special beer with caramel, Munich and Pilsner malts to provide light, toasted bread flavors with caraway seeds for the complete rye bread experience. Brewers took a pinch of kosher salt, a dash of…
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout ABV 9.2% IBU 29.50 “Coffee is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures. It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my brain, It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for it’s name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow…
As the title implies, Berlinersfields (with Apricot) is a Berliner-wise style beer from Dionysus Brewing Co. It sits at 4.4% ABV and about 2 IBU. The beer pours a light golden color with a nice white head that last for about a minute or so. No lacing on glass. There is a loud spice flavor throughout with Lemon, Citrus…
Nitro Merlin Milk Stout by Firestone Walker Brewing 5.5% ABV 27 IBU’s I was sent this little gem from Firestone Walker and while I am huge fan of Nitro Beers, this was my first experience in having a craft beer on nitro from a can. My first and only recommendation is follow the directions on…
Leo vs. Ursus: Wookus 8.2% ABV 75 IBU’s Once thought to be extinct, the Wookey family comes roaring back with its wooliest progeny yet: an imperial black rye IPA that is wickedly hoppy, righteously spicy and fearsome in flavor. While exhibiting DNA from its Wookey Jack ancestry, Wookus offers next-generation attitude with amplified…
Dionysus Super Funkadelic w/ Sea Salt, Coriander and Cinnamon. ABV 6.5% IBU 5 A gose-inspired beer fermented with Dionysus Brewing Company’s own personal house strain of Brettanomyces bruxellensis and Lactobacillus brevis, and then dry-hopped with Mosaic. When I opened this sour, and slightly tart beer it pours pale, straw yellow with robust carbonation into a…
Anchor Coffee Porter 6.7% ABV Our historic, art deco building on San Francisco’s Potrero Hill was a coffee roastery before it was our brewery. We’ve joked for years that it takes a lot of coffee to make beer. Now, in collaboration with local roaster Four Barrel Coffee, we are doing just that– literally. We start in…
In 1876, thanks to an ice pond in the mountains and a belief that anything is possible in the Golden State, a little brewery named Boca created California’s first genuine lager. Anchor California Lager is our re-creation of this historic beer. Made in San Francisco with two-row California barley, Cluster hops (the premier hop in…
Lagunitas Brewing Company Lagunitas Sucks ABV: 7.85% It pours a clear golden with a nice head with sticky white lacing. The hop presence is nice with some tropical fruits (grapefruit and pineapple) , citrus and pine from the hops, the mix of grains and malts brings a cool west coast style taste to this…
Brown Shugga’ by Lagunitas Brewing Company ABV 10% This beer is the next beer up in the continuing line of Lagunitas’s “Heavy Hitter Series”. While this version is slightly different than the recipe I remember years back, it still doesn’t disappoint. Brown Shugga’ pours a darker amber color with a large thick white head on…
Willettized Coffee Stout 11.7% ABV 32.0 ABU The latest from the “Heavy Hitter Series” offered up from Lagunitas. The Press Release from Lagunitas speaks volumes towards the style of the beer and the attention to detail put into the mix and blending of the beer. “Our friends over at Kentucky’s own Willett Distillery have one…
Lagunitas NightTime Ale 8.2% ABV – 74 IBU’s The appearance has a nice jet black color with a nice thick tan head on the pour before it dissipated. Once it did, there were some sticky lacings despite being poured in a pint glass. The smell had a really nice bitter citrus up front with a…
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