Lagunitas Lucky #13

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

22oz bottle, this beer is a fairly dark pour, with a thickish tan head, beautiful lacing. Aroma is citrus hops, and caramel sweet malt. The flavor is big, hops, caramel, just great. It’s almost a DIPA in my mind except for the amount of malt. Solid beer that I will have again.

Hops. Lots of hops. And malts. And so drinkable. Damn, so drinkable, I’m having a hard time reviewing it. Poured out a thick tan head that really sticks around and leaves crazy lacing. Burnt orange colour. Aromas that revolve heavily around thick citrus (oranges, grapefruit, lime), some pine and an interesting malt backbone (caramel, biscuit). The thing is that on the aroma and flavour there is something different here... almost a gap between the hops and malts... a void? I do not know how to describe it. The flavour is very IIPAish - huge hops with pine, grapefruit, still thick, heavy and sweet malts, same as the aroma. Smoothish mouth feel, thick malts keeps this beer attentive. Never really separated the alcohol from the pine an medicinal hops. Medium full bodied. Leaves hops and some sweet malts in the mouth. This is a mighty fine beer... then again, it’s been awhile since I’ve went down this style road. Incredibly easy drinking and only 8.3%. As yummy as it is, this is not an exceptional beer. It’s good though. Get a case and get f’d up!

Pours a light brown and semi clear with a large tan head. Beautifully roasted malt nose with a good burst of piny hops. Very well balanced beer and still drinkable at this high ABV. Tasty, I hope to get a couple more bottles of this.

Clear reddish amber; small beige head. Aroma of piney hops and alcohol. Flavor is rich, with doughy hops, citrus hops, and some alcohol warmth. Nice strong, hoppy ale.

Poured from Bottle into Pint glass. Pours a clear amber color with a finger or so of creamy off-white head that very slowly dissolves and never completely disappears. The aroma has some serious resinous piney hops along with some aromas that are reminiscent of barley (i.e. brown sugar, dried fruits) and some toasted malts. The flavor is sweet, sticky hops upfront with some dried fruits and toasted malts and a soft bitterness to round things off. This is a full to medium bodied beer and is very sticky but at the same time has ample carbonation. Very interesting, seems like a super hoppy barleywine overall. It does get much hotter as it warms up which makes it a sipper.

Bottle. Clear, dark amber pour with a medium off-white head. Nice aroma of sweet malt and hops, mostly grapefruit. Similar flavor; sweet, almost syrupy malt flavor. Noticeable hoppiness with some grapefruit and piney notes. Overall nice beer.

Big, hoppy, grainy beer. Very clear red ale. Nice frothy head. Spicy, bitter and malty all at the same time. Still needs to mellow a bit, but should be tasting really well a few months down the road. I agree with a previous rating that mentions rye. This should be easier to confirm a few months from now once the bitterness dies down a little bit

has a very strong odor of strawberry and citrus. aroma is enticing. appearance is a very reddish orange (think the color of the planet mars from the pictures taken by hubble telescope). Theres not much head or "lacing", but I don’t care. The appearance of a beer is unimportant, it’s the flavor that matters. most prevalent flavors are hops, sugar and a little tinge of alcohol. the general flavor is a little heavy, but that general flavor is pleasing so I don’t mind. Feels fizzy and thick in my mouth (like carbonated skim milk). Yum.