Lagunitas Maximus

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Petaluma, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

A beautiful beer. Honey/amber/orange in color with a nice white head that leaves a good fading lace. First sniff is piney hops, but over time that smell gives in to citrus and peppermint. Taste is hops with a solid malt backbone. Medium bodied. Pleasantly surprised.

Pours a dark straw color with a fluffy white head. Good lacing. Aroma is fresh floral and hoppy. When you first take a sip it is silky and hoppy. Medium mouth feel. The aroma is just full of hops. I don’t know what hops where used but they are awesome! A little too bitter bite at the ending.

ho hum at best imo. definitely a imperial and not a dipa, but not a strong imperial at all. why would you rate this so high? whoever does has missed out on great dipa’s and imperial’s out there because this nothing to write home about. more like a slightly above average ipa.

Small head, no lacing. Smells like... not much, actually - subtle caramel and citrus. Yellow amber color. Lots of malt, hides the booze well. Not very impressed with the hop presence here. Meh. Too thin - goes down like water. Very bitter on the finish but doesn’t linger. Overall disappointing but generally what I expected from Lagunitas. Price is nice though!

This beer strikes me more as an IPA-and-a-Half than a DIPA. Pours a hazy golden amber, with almost no head and little lacing. Smells like orange hoppy madness, but with ’roided-out malts goading them on. First sip brings on toffee and orange honey. The thick, chewy, dense front coats your palate in sweetness, but the hops quickly rush is with a citric tang and firm bitterness. I can see why this beer doesn’t tickle the fancy of serious hopheads; it’s more of a hoppy malt-bomb. Still, does the trick for me, judging at how fast my bottles have disappeared. (6/8/09)

Bottle. Pours orange with a bit of brown. Head is white, creamy, with a tinge of yellow. The head dissipates quickly. Aroma is soft hops, a bit of citrusy pineapple. Not too pronounced. Taste is a nice bitter citrus. There is a bit of caramely malty sweetness too thats not too strong. I would like to see more bold hops going on.

A little too malty for a double IPA, I wish when breweries would make a double IPA they would keep a high hop to malt ratio like the regular IPAs.

Pours orangish brown, medium head. Citrus, floral, leaves. Somewhat heavy and sweet. Plenty of bitterness. A nice IPA