Lagunitas Lucky #13

Name: Lucky 13
Date: April 01, 2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Classic City
Appearance: clear dark amber, frothy beige head
Aroma: big fresh citrus hop aroma with dry dark caramel malt, sweet caramel and chocolate flavors, lots of balancing hops grow to a long bitter finish
Overall: it’s the chocolate character that makes this beer

Name: Lucky 13
Date: April 05, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Appearance: not picking up the chocolate
Flavor: lots of earthy hop flavor, touch of alcohol

Name: Lucky 13
Date: June 30, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
still no chocolate but the dark caramel stands up to the ever bitter earthy hops,

Name: Lucky 13
Date: August 14, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: cellar stock
maybe a hint of the fabled chocolate in the dark caramel malts that do a great job balancing the big earthy hop flavor and lasting bitterness,

Name: Lucky 13
Date: July 11, 2009
Mode: cask
Source: brewery
Appearance: hazy orange, frothy off white head
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma, peppery alcohol
Flavor: sweet and fruity malt flavor, nice spicy hops

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Bottle. [Courtesy of Papsoe, another great session] Average thick creamy like head that really lasted. Good display of lacework. Light cloudy body with an amber color. Aroma of grapefruit, elderflower, pine, citrus, caramel, some underlying fruity notes, light liquorish and apricot. Medium to full bodied with a dry texture and lively carbonation. Balanced moderated biter and sweet flavor. Dry and bitter finish. Very nice beer. 15-08-2007

12 oz bottle, 6/24/07: Reddish orange w/ a short lived light beige head. Aroma at first is herbal and green spruce piney, resiny hops up front. Also a touch of what seems to be cat urine? Very little malt presence when chilled, and clean of most fruity esters. Toasted malt moderate and strengthens only as it warms. Well balanced, lightly bready and herbal hops up front in the flavor w/ hints of pine. Caramel malt is medium, and it’s pretty clean of fruity esters for the most part. Herbal and piney hop flavor into the dry finish; aftertaste is piney hops. Medium body, smooth, creamy m/f. Well hidden alcoho, dry m/f after the swallow. Not a terribly exciting beer, but well made. Would be well suited to someone that really, really likes piney hops... Me not being one of them.

Thanks to Juancho. Great Surprise! Really enjoyed it well balanced, citrus. Nice dry, hoppy finish. Really liked it.

Bottle. Clear orange coloured with an off white ehad. Aroma of caramel, hops and pine needles. Flavour of malts, caramel, hops and pine needles.

1 pt 6 fl oz bottle. Pours orange with a lacing white head. Dry malty and hoppy: slight fruity aroma. Dry and fruity flavour, caramel notes. Dry and slight metallic finish.

Bottled. An amber beer with a light orange head. The aroma is sweet with notes of vegetables as well as lighter notes of berries. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of straw and caramel, as well as light notes of alcohol, leading to a slighlty bitter finish.

This beer poured an amber apperance. An orange, caramel, and perfume filled aroma. This is a big beer with alot of malt and hops going on at the same time. The flavor has some caramel, orange peel, and pine. Overall this was a very nice beer.