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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Bottled. A dark brown beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of sweet and roasted malt as well as caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of roasted malt.

Bottle 65 cl. Opaque dark brown with a dense light brown head. Mashy aroma, nuts and roasted malt. Quite full-bodied with very sweet burned caramel accents, nuts and wood. Very alcoholic finish without much bitterness. More candy water that Imperial stout. 110709

22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a smal tan head. Roasted malt and light yeasty aroma. Flavour is sweet and fruity. Quite yeasty. Light bitter, roasted malt, caramel and yeasty fruity flavoured. Ends sweet and fruity.

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2009
Name: Rubin and the Jets
Date: February 07, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Footset Foreplay Friday
Appearance: opaque dark brown, fine tan head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet dark caramel aroma, roasted malt, peppery spicyness
Flavor: sweet dark chocolate flavor, lots of peppery spicyness, dark caramel sweetness, light earthness balances it all out

Name: Rubin and the Jets
Date: June 06, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: Green’s
peppery character has faded a bit leaving the rich chocolate and sweet caramel behind,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Murky dull brown. Light dark fruits and a hint of chocolate in the nose. Fairly light. Slightly rank character. Some chile noted but this is thin, going nowhere stuff. Yikes.

(22oz bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a small beige head. Aroma of cocoa, roasted malt, ashes, white pepper, caramel, and slight vinous. Flavor of roasted malt, cocoa, and some dark fruits with a dry finish.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor with hints of coffee and some hints of pepper. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

(22oz bottle) Small beige head atop cola black body. Aroma is medium sweet, milk chocolate, some pepper, roast, light vanilla. Taste is moderately sweet, milk chocolate, some coffee/roast, light pepper/alcohol. Low carbonation, silky medium body. Alcohol surprisingly well contained, making this quite drinkable.

22oz bottle-pours a patchy light brown head and dark brown color. Aroma is licorice/chocolate/molasses-dark malt, dark fruit. Taste is licorice nibs, dark fruit-raisin/prunes, molasses/chocolate-dark malt, some balancing earthy hops, slight sour, alcohol.

It’s black with a red hue and a small, creamy head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, dark fruit, licorice and milk chocolate. The flavour is moderately sweet with notes of chocolate, roasted malt, dark fruit, light coffee, caramel and the finish is slightly dry.