Lagunitas Cruising with Ruben and The Jets

Formerly brewed at Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Petaluma, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bomber $4.99 to my favorite snifter.Pour is dark brown, but once glass is full it appears black. Head is quick off white and then disapears. Aroma is rasins and burnt coco and black licorice. Taste is smooth and coco rasins and rye bread with a subtle hoppy spice finish. Palate is a sticky and chaulky finish. A awesome 5 dollar imperial stout.

Serving: 22 oz. bottle from Total Wine Sterling
I’ve let this one sit on the shelf awhile (18 months) to see how some age treated it. It pours a dark brown with ruby highlights and a small, frothy, light brown head. The nose is roasty with lots of flint, coffee, dark caramel, and molasses. It is suprisingly light on the tongue for a Impy. A bit earthy with a good bit of brown sugar, molasses, raisin, roasted malt, and a hint of anise. Medium mouthfeel with average carbonation and a dark, raisiny finish. A solid brew who’s age has served it well.

Two and a half shelf years and it needed it. I bought 2, had one at the time and it was awefull. It sat and sat and sat. I popped this bad boy open and was pleasently surprised that this pepper stout matured quite nicely. Coffee, chocholate, roasted smoked barley and lots of time. There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over! FZ.

Bottle. Brownish pour in the sunlight. LOTS of sediment. Aroma is caramel and chocolate. Taste is molasses, cocoa, bread, and caramel.

22oz bottle.Pours a dark blackish brown with a thin brown head.Nose is chocolate and bread.Taste is chocolate and peppery with sugary malts.This is nothing special just another solid offering from Lagunitas.Big time bang for your buck.Really easy drinking Imp Stout.

22oz bottle. Pours a deep, murky brown, almost black body with a thin, brown head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Sweet and malty aroma with lots of caramel, chocolate, plums, and licorice. A light vanilla, soy, roast, and raisin bread. Just a hint of pepper sneaks its way in. The flavor is similar and very thin on the palate. Lots of caramel and cocoa up front with a raisin bread middle. Some nuts and teriyaki beef jerky before this finishes with a smooth vanilla, a light roast, and a more distinct, but not biting pepper. Slowly dries with the slightest earthy bitterness and smoke. A slight alcohol warmth as well. Very creamy and smooth body despite the thinness with a very light carbonation. Overall, an interesting beer all-around. Its sweet, but not overly sweet with some nice pepper subtleties and a very unique body. This one leaves me somewhat perplexed...

Served from bottle into Nonic. Poured a nice dark brown almost black with a slight amount of off-white head. Upon sitting it developed a very nice tan sediment layer on the bottom. The aroma comprised of malts and a much sweeter note that I could not figure out. The flavor of this brew was malty with a slight hint of nutty that ends with a slight coffee note upon swallowing. It maintained nice lacing throughout. Overall this was not a bad stout. I really enjoyed all of the flavors including the subtle coffee aftertaste as it does not overpower the other flavors as most stouts with coffee flavors do for me. This is a very nice beer from Lagunitas and hate they are currently only brewing this one once as I would definitely buy more.

Poured dark brown, very little head. The aroma was malty, caramel, toasty a hint of chocolate. The taste was sweet. The body was medium, the texture creamy, the carbonation soft. Overall pretty good.

Bottle and served in my NB worthy glassware: Pours a deep cola brown with an okay head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of mild banana brown bread, some chocolate and sweet caramel malt, some Special B methinks and perhaps even a touch of dark candi syrup. Peppery and clove like vapours along with an earthy and smoky quality. The taste starts syrupy sweet and fruity much akin to an Abbey Double with a peppery finish and a touch of constant earthiness and lingering dry smoke and a quick dash of booze. The mouth feel is soft and a tad sticky but not too heavy, a bit ashy.

While I dig this beer overall profile even if a bit too sweet, I am shocked that anyone could call this an Imperial Stout. Like I said, seems more like a sweeter Abbey beer or even more a strong Danish styled Jule brew with it’s peppery overtones.

This is undoubtedly one of the best values in beer that I’ve had for a long long time. For a $4.79 bomber, I got a beer that had a dense, silky, viscous body; rich caramel and toasted flavors; extremely well balanced profile for a beer hitting 8.6% abv; and a long finish without being at all off-putting. Excellent beer by any measure, and then you give it to me for under $5...fabulous. Big bonus points in the overall. Well done, Lagunitas.