Lagunitas Nuevo Noir

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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This beer offers the nose a nutty/yeasty aroma. The color resides somewhere between cherry and mahogany. It pours a good light brown head that fades fast leaving only a trace of lacing behind in its wake. This sweet smooth beer flows through the mouth depositing a nice nutty caramel taste on the palate. It fades smooth leaving a nice sweet malt flavor lingering.

22oz. bottle. Clear reddish brown color with a small off white head. Caramel malt aroma with raisins, vanilla and brown sugar. Mildly sweet flavor of raisin bread, brown sugar and some spices. A bit of alcohol comes through on the finish.

Cherry wood coloring with a fairly small off-white head. Aromas of caramel and roasted malts; there is far less yeast and fruitiness in the bouquet than I originially had anticipated. Some light chocolate lingers as well, but in a blandness like the store bought chewy chocolate chip cookies, not as in the rich delicious aroma of fresh cookie. Body is relatively thin and slightly creamy. Initial nuttiness is almost like a poor nut brown ale, but the Belgian yeasts quickly drown out that negative impression and are actually quite pleasant. Finish is clean with a small bit of quad-like yeastiness and raisin nut bread. This is the brew’s most appealing trait for me.

22 oz. bottle. Pours walnut brown with a small head that diminishes into an edgy off-white film. Aroma is malt (baked cookie) and brown sugar, milk chocolate powder, yeast (wheat dough) and light berries. Flavor is yeasty dough, caramel malt, medium sweetness, moderate acidity, low bitterness with maple, buttery and toffee notes. Medium bodied and dark, slightly fizzy and creamy palate.

65 cl bottle. Dark reddish brown colour with a small white head. Aroma of dried fruit, toffee and sweet maltness. Malty flavour with notes of caramel, nuts and sweet berries. Little nauseating.

Clear brown body with a slightly reddish tint. Head size is large and frothy. Aroma is sugar, caramel, bread, and hints of spices and yeast. Flavor is much the same, fairly sugary caramel taste. While it’s not really flawed, nothing is memorable either.

22oz. bottle, Autumn 2005 release. Slight but pleasant aroma, gently sweet with hints of freshly baked dark bread, brown sugar, cedar, raisin and light spices. Medium-dark red-brown color with orange highlights and a lasting, fine, slight head leaving scattered dots of lace. Flavor is fairly mild in character, bittersweet and lightly fruity to start, becoming maltier and more sugary throughout and seeing some yeast esters and faint bitterness on the finish, which also has late suggestions of orange peel and tea leaves, alcohol is also very faintly evident here. Palate is smooth, light and creamy, body is medium. Somewhat interesting but not nearly as distinctive as many other beers from Lagunitas.

(Bottle 65 cl) Beautiful, clear ruby red beer with a small, off-white head. Sweetish, malty aroma with a touch of yeast. Fairly full-bodied with lots of roasted malt and plenty of sweet caramel. Somewhat odd notes of overripe fruit make this unbalanced and flakey. Almost no bitterness. 160106

Red amber ale with a thin white head. Light cherry malt aroma, faint and short, with more of a c-hop background. Sweet caramel malt in mouth, nutty notes, but not very Belgian....Russian River Beer Revival & Barbecue Cook-Off, August 20, 2005.

Pours a deep clear brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is dried fruits, cloves, vanilla and cookie malts. The body is med-heavy. The flavors are med. sweet and cookie-like with a pleasing spice compexity mentioned in aroma. Finish is med. sweet but nicely balanced. I thought this was very enjoyable.