Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout

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

Serve in English pint

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UPDATED: FEB 9, 2010 Just picked up a bomber of the 2009 batch earlier today. This beer pours with a dark brown color. When held up to a light, I can see through it which just isn’t "right" for a stout...especially a stout of imperial strength. The aroma is fairly weak and not all that enticing. What’s there is mostly chocolate, but with a hint of coffee. The flavor is a little better than the aroma, but this tastes nothing like a stout. It tastes like a malty imperial brown ale with a dash of sweetened, artificial coffee flavoring. Since this is supposed to be a stout, where’s the expected stout roastiness? It’s not here. Additionally, I like more roasted coffee flavor in my coffee beers than this one has. As the beer warmed, the sweetness became more pronounced along with a stronger yet unpleasant sweet coffee character. In the end, I couldn’t finish the bomber. This brew is best described as a fairly sweet, dark, dessert beer with some coffee-ish flavor added to it. Whether you call this coffee beer a stout, a brown ale, or something else, it’s just not very good. I admire Lagunitas, but this brew needs to be reformulated. I love all kinds of coffee beers, but sadly this is one of my least favorite. Thankfully, there are many other (better) coffee beers to choose from these days from North America and abroad.

Pours a dark amber. Lots of tan retention and lacing. Roast and spiced malts combined w/ decent coffee and milk/vanilla. Sour and lightly bitter. Alcohol is well hidden. Creamy and medium body.

Pours darker redish brown with a beige head. Aroma is coffee, cappuccinoish, darker sweet malts, milk chocolate, hazelnuts and bitter roasted notes. Taste is earthy bitter roasted coffee, cheap milk chocolate, ashy, very dry, bitter roasted notes and a rather thin body.

Robust rich aroma and flavor of coffee at 1st that dominate this stout. Toward the end of the bottle the flavors begin to mellow and the beverage becomes more enjoyable. Nice Stout. States what it is up front and delivers. If only I could get away with having a bottle of this before work each morning ohwell

Very light for a stout. Light brown head with pretty big bubbles. As the name promises it contains lots of chocolate, coffee and something milky/creamy. Those notes and the burned malt bitterness is the only typical stout-features. Besides that i find fresh hops and a light body. It’s really moist (doesn’t leave the mouth dry) and i find it a little odd.

A light pallet for a stout, this beer /s complex in its simplicity. Deep coffee notes explode and then recede quickly. A cleansing stout with a good kick. This is the good stuff. High gravity without stretching for it. Wonderful choice.

Very dark color but only thin suds. Aroma is intense of coffee with hints of chocolate. Very smooth on the palate. The taste is a bit bitter but tasty. Pretty good stout.

Shared in the back of a small van. Pour dark, almost black, with small tan head. Aroma is pretty roasted with a whole lot of coffee. Taste is pretty bitter, with some slight sweet notes. Medium body, with an average carbonation.

A sweet, cakelike aroma gets things off to a fine start, but a yeasty scent sets in pretty quickly. Foamy topper. It tastes great - caramel, coffee, molasses, with nippy hops in the closing, followed by a warm tingle. This hits the target for sure - excellent brew.

On the light side, looks like a porter. Nose is terrific, strong coffee and caramel malt. Taste is very strong coffee and sweet caramel maltiness, finishes slight chocolate, coffee lingers for a long time. Coffee drinkers must.

very dark brown, aroma of coffee, caramel, chocolate, flavors of coffee, caramel, chocolate, dark fruits, lots of coffee in this one but the caramel/toffee balances it well