Lagunitas Imperial Red

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Petaluma, California USA

Thanks to presario for this amazing beer. Pours a deep red amber with an off white head. Aroma is toffee, sweet malts and honey. Taste is a complex well balanced beer, sweet malt with a little spicey aftertaste and some hop bitterness is an amazing mouthfeel. I really enjoyed this one and hope to find some more.

Pours deep copper color with tan head. Aromas of breadyl malts and pine hops. Sweet caramel malt flavor with some toffee and nuttiness with a good amount of pine hops. Medium to full body with average carbonation.

Bottle. Red-brown pour. White semi-fluffy head, decent lacing. Aroma of pine hop and caramel, creamy mouthfeel. Taste of caramel, malt, good sharp hop bite. Really good stuff.

Bottle: Poured a bright amber color ale with a relatively small foamy head with average retention and not much lacing. Aroma of citrus hops is not bad but pretty standard compared to some other West Coats hop bomb. Taste is also dominated by loads of citrus and piney hops and a medium caramel malt backbone. Not the most interesting beer out there.

Generally good red. Nothing special here - but competent. Not very much different than many other red ales I’ve had.

Oh, God! My mother, she woke me up today. She poured a hot pan of grease all over my chest and my ass and genitals and I fell down the stairs and my shoes fell off.

What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

Because I can’t see damn it, you son of a bitch!

12oz bottle. Pours a very deep mahogany colored body with a finger-width, very creamy, tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a good amount of lacing. Aroma is really nice. Plenty of rich caramels, lightly toasted toffees, berry fruits, dates, citrusy pines, fig newtons, some florals, and a light resin. Sweet, chewy, rich, fruity, and hoppy. Flavor is rich, caramel malts up front with lots of citrusy hops. More cherry-prune fruits, deeper dates, and lightly toasted toffees come in during the middle along with some burnt brown sugar and molasses. Finishes sweet with plenty of citrus hops along with plenty of dates, malts, and lightly roasted grains. Light to moderate bitterness, mostly dry, and a moderate to lengthy aftertaste leaning more towards the toasted, roasty toffees and citrusy hops. Medium bodied with a light carbonation. Overall, I liked this one a lot. Fairly complex flavors with sweet, hoppy, and slightly toasty characteristics make this quite enjoyable. Nice balance and very tasty.

Remarks 12 oz. Bottle Rich off white lacy dense head.Clear dark bronze red color.Roasted fruit cherry toffee rich floral hop front.Rich hop infused burnt dark fig date toffee caramel dry sweet rich bisquit body.Earthy cloying sweet malt rich hot hop spice end.Big tasty Red!