Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale

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

Amber and hazy. Has an off-white head, mostly lasting. Complex aroma, chocolate, hoppyness, faint citrus. Long lasting flavor, sweet and a nice bitter finish.

From a bottle poured amber with a good amount of head. Nice strong hoppy flavor with a lasting finish.

Remarks 22 oz. Bottle. 9.03 % ABV 72.41 IBU’s $9.29/6-Pack 2009 Release Thin lacy off white head.Clear thin bright dark amber color.Mild toasted floral piney rich malt hop aroma.Cloying sweet rich doughy mild toasted big Amber ESB caramel fruit hint big malty body.Hot hop spice mild earthy EtOH hint cloying malt end.Too malty.Odd tasty variation on Little Sumpin, Maximus.Imperial ESB? "Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale--12th Anniversary-""Whatever. We’re Still Here.""" 2006 22 oz. 9.90% Unrepentent IBU’s 4.5 / 5.0 ESB--Imperial $3.49.Minimal head.No lace.Slightly hazy rich amber color.Mellow earthy floral hop front.Crisp mild creamy earthy smooth caramel body.Mild tangy hop spice end.Aged well.Rich smooth Imperial ESB. 11/18/2007 Undercover Investigation Ale 2007 22 oz. 9.28% 110+IBU’s 4.0 / 5.0 ESB--Imperial. Mild lacy head.Thick pour.Clear deep dark amber color.Malty fruit mild hop floral front.Malty sweet earthy bittersweet caramel mild bisquit rich body.Tangy tingly bitter hot hop spicy cloying end. 6/25/2007.

Suspended hops and stuff in an amber pour with a three finger airy slowly fading off-white head. Aroma is very sweet and hoppy with toffee, caramel, resinous hops and their trademark alcohol. Taste of toffee, citrus, orange, alcohol, light diacetyl. It’s just a touch too cloyingly sweet for my likes and finishes with mild bitterness and warming.

A: Pours a nice bronze color that almost looks like an amber ale. There is a huge rocky head that puffs up nicely and hangs around for sometime. What is left makes layer after layer of lacing, some of the best I have ever seen. S: Resiny pine. pine needles, pine cones, pine sap, pine sol. No matter how you say it the aroma is pure pine. T: As soon as this one passes your tongue you are hit with a subtle citrus taste which is quickly overrun by a nice strong piney bitterness. The bitterness fades and is then overtaken by a wonderful caramel malty sweetness. M: Full bodied and pretty thick.

Another solid offering by Lagunitas. Copper colored brew with a pillowy white head that left rings of lacing. Aroma is a nice balance of lemongrass and buttermilk biscuit. Honey, pine, and citrus also find their way to the flavor which is refreshing and highly drinkable considering the ABV of this one. Medium mouthfeel with ample carbonation. Good.

Bottle. Amber body. Off-white, frothy, diminishing head. Sweet, malty aroma of cookie, graham cracker, toasted grain with notes of grapefruit and pine. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and moderately to heavily bitter. Medium to full body, watery texture turning sticky, almost chewy. Moderately carbonation. Alcohol warming. At first sip, the beer is dominated by sweet malts, but those are overrun by the hops. There is not a lot of depth, but the balance makes this a nice drinking beer.

22 oz bottle. Pours dark copper in flavour, with modest head. Big aroma and taste! Aroma is sweet with a sprucey, herbal hop finish. Flavour is also on the sweet side, with, again, a sprucey hint. Quite good!