Lagunitas Sirius Ale

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

Good sized light orange head of creamy bubbles. Settles slowly. Light citrus and orange aroma. Kind of dry with a bit of spices. Medium orange in color. Dry and bitter flavor. Lots of bitter hops with some light malts and orange again. Bit of harsh roasty bittenress late swallow but it is short lived. Some floral notes and pepper. Finishes dry and bitter. A decent brew.

12 ounce bottle. Poured a dark yellow color with a 2.5 finger width tan head. The aroma consisted of a lot of caramel and malts with a hint of hops in the background. Tasted a lot of caramel in the beer... that is probably due to a lot of malt. It left a nice bitter taste in my mouth. As the beer warmed, I could taste more hops. Overall a tasty beer... nothing that I would drink regularly though.

Pours a pours a light copper color with a white head. Aroma is biscuit, caramel, aged hops, and spicy herbal hops. Flavor is malty, biscuit, and a slightly aged spicy hop finish.

Bottle. Golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is hop, citrus, fruit. Flavour is hop, citrus, fruit, berries, malt. Bitter finish. nice beer.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a small white head. Sweetish malty hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweet malty flavor with some dry bitterness and some hints of caramel. Has a long bitter finish.

Bottle from General66. Thank you, sir. Dark yellow pour. Light aroma of caramel malt and just a hint of hops. Flavor is dominated by malt, but its still fairly easy drinking. A decent dose of hops in the finish. Good, but nothing that I would seek out again.

Dark yellow,a few streaming bubbles, not much of a white head, rather still. Aroma is interesting - I get pear, light malts, alcohol, floral hops. Taste - wow, was not expecting that amount of hops - really bitter upfront. Eases off into a pleasant malt body, almost honey sweet, and that is where any sort of creamy fuller body comes in. Lingers with a few more grapefruit like hops and a little water. Good stuff. If this is what Spring is about, I’m all for it, but it is getting harder not to laugh at all the promises of Spring on these beers while I’m staring at mountains of snow banks...

First off, its the perfect color. Lighter than the damp, dark days of winter, but not the brilliant brightness of spring and summer. For a nose, it’s strong, rich malty goodness. Taste wise, it’s like a fresh unwrapped caramel, squeezed between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Mouthfeel is like comparing whole milk to nonfat. And the finish is a subdued bitterness, cleansing the palette for the next taste. Good stuff!