Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Petaluma, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Obtained in a trade with DarkElf. Cleark dark reddish brown with a thick beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel and hops. VERY sweet and malty starting off with strong notes of sweet caramel and brown sugar. The rest of the flavor consists of roasted malt, chocolate and coffee but not as much coffee as I was expecting given the name of this brew. Bitter, slightly burnt roasty finish. Very full, round and silky-smooth on the palate with subtle carbonation. Lacing coats the glass nicely with good head retention. Good stuff, but way too sweet.

The aroma was full of carrots! (yeah, that is what it smelled like!), dark fermented fruit, very slight roast and coffee. The flavor was roasty, w/ slight coffe and a hint of dark fruit sweetness. The beer poured a deep reddish brown w/ red highlights, slight head and thin lacing. The mouthfeel was thin and watery.

Body is black with a nice mocha head. Aroma is amazing, caramel, hazelnut, coffee, peanut butter. Alcohol is slighty to present, but it doesn’t take away too much from the beer. Coffee is there, but nothing like bells java stout. Roasted Malts, Coffee, Caramel, and Alcohol round out this beer. Pretty damn nice.

An on tap desert at O’Brien’s. Medium brown, slight head. Aroma was faintly of coffee, roasty, and pine. Flavor was interesting, coffee laced with pine in the main, some pepsin, and in the finish a slight toffee note. Odd, but I enjoyed it. Couldn’t pass up the chance to try another Lagunitas beer.

UPDATED: JUL 9, 2005 Pours with a dark brown body with red tinting topped by a thin head with some lacing. It’s sweet and malty yet bitter with a nice roastiness. Full bodied, dry and smooth.

Very nice, good coffee aroma and flavor. More marketing than good beer, lagunitas provides yet another innovative, agressive beer to the craft brew market. Not a bad buy though. I found myself getting another 22 on my last trip to the store.

From a liquor store in Bolinas California. This beer, like all the offerings from Lagunitas, has a label that is fun to read and leaves you scratching your head. The beer has a nice ruby brown color, a tan head, the aroma of coffee, a somewhat muddy taste, and a nice bitter finish.

Bottle: Dark reddish brown with an initial large frothy head with fades into a small covering but does produce good lace. The aroma has notes of coffee (duh), mocha, sweet milk, hazelnut, toast, aromatic hops, and a touch of berry. The taste is tangy with a lot of lactic overtones on top of chocolate and roasted malting. The finish is coffee and light bitters with a surprising dose of alcohol which I didn’t figure would be here, but the beer is 7.9%, so maybe. The feel is smooth for the most part but that lactic twangy character adds some pucker power and detracts from the experience. This beer while quaffable isn’t in the same league as some of the better coffee imbued stouts (like Founders and Alesmith). Still worthy of a try. Now someone tell me what is "hardcore coffee"? Please...

Tosa Tasting via JCapriotti. Chestnut color with a small beige head. Strong flavors. Dark chocolate, vanilla and alcohol progress through the quaff. Quite acidic in the finish as well. Start seem very rough. It does seem to mellow as it warms, but still rather rough.

This beer comes courtesy of beerguy101 without whom I’d have far less ratings than I do now. This beer pours a dark brown color with hints of ruby here and there in the light. The head was moderate with slight creaminess and good lacing on my glass. The aroma is chocolatey and coffee with hints of oak chips and a hint of lacticness. The flavor is medium bodied and extremely carbonated. Chocolate and coffee tickle the tongue..trust me, you can literally feel the caffeine hitting your body about halfway through this bottle. Strangely enough there is a noticeable alcohol tinge in this beer...at only 7.9% thats not what I expected, but its not exactly hidden behind a lot of malt. Bitter and dry mouthfeel, cottonmouth finish. Some lactic milkiness mid-sip, light and mildly sweet. Definitely nice, but the finish just goes in a completely different direction from what I would expect and thus the slight knockdown in points.