Lagunitas Maximus

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

12 oz bottle. Pours orange amber with an off-white head. Sweet and hoppy citrus and caramel aroma. Flavor has citrusy hops, sweet caramel, and slight grassy hops, with biscuit coming up toward the finish, then moving into a mild bitterness. Slight alcohol tingle. A very well-balanced combination of flavors; I’m very happy with this one. Not really an IIPA though, just seems like an IPA to me.

Pours a copper color with a white head. Aroma is malty, crystal malts, with lots of citrus hops. Flavor is malty, caramel, citrus, and a nice juicy citrus hop finish.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber body with small white lacing. Aroma is floral, citrus and pine hop. Taste is nice hop complexity. Flavorful and nice drinkability.

Poured a clear, dark orange/copper with a tall creamy light tan head. There were some carbonation bubbles rising up in the glass. There was a strong grapefruit aroma and later a little bit of a pine scent as well. The beer retained the head for a good while and it left nice lacing. There was an excellent grapefruit flavor and a good hops bite right from the first sip. A nice background sweetness balanced the hops. The finish was a nice bitter hops with some citrus flavor lingering on. This was very refreshing to drink. Good bit of hops, but not overpowering. Excellent!

22oz - Orange liquid under off white head, certainly looks the part. Orange peel nose. Swwet malt immediately offset by hops. Nice interplay, different in a way from most DIPAs. Good not great

It poured a clear golden liquid with a medium sized white foam that left very little lacing. It had a medium heavy smell of hops, fruits, caramell and bread. It tasted mostly of fruity and flowery hops and just a bit of grassy hops. Also sweet of butter scotch and caramell. It was smooth with a medium-full thickness and tickled the top of my mouth. Also had an odd kind of funky taste, not sure what that was.

Pours a nice golden color with not much head. Aroma is of hops, some honey and grass. Taste is pretty smooth for the hoppyness with good complexity. Has big hop flavor, but without being overly abrasive. I was a little surprised at how good it is.

Thanks, Florian’s in Truckee, California! Shiny copper with a nice off-white head. Aroma is sharp, sweet grapefruit. Big-time caramel malt going on here, which keeps this from being the typical hop-bomb. Nicely balanced, just a bit sweet. Pretty strong carbonation in this one, somewhat masks the 7.5% ABV.