Lagunitas Sonoma Farmhouse Hop Stoopid

Bottle from Kegs & Barrels in Plano, TX. Pours a great looking gold with thick off-white head. Aroma is hoppy citrus. Flavor is nicely balanced as well, lots of hop flavor, piney, citrus, malty, seems delicate as well, nice strong bitter. Mouthfeel is medium body with medium high carbonation, it is a soft beer as well. Over all, not something to cringe at, very smooth and refreshing..........

Beautiful balance, creamy body, nice malt backbone, inviting citric/piny esters, long finish, soft carbonation, perfectly married flavors...this is Lagunitas’s best effort...I’ve definitely found my new favorite spring/summer ale!

bottle at Ft Wayne tasting - Pours mostly clear light copper with a medium sized fizzy head. It has a pleasant aroma of citrus and flower accented hops. The flavor is of good, fresh, strong, hops with citrus notes. A good malt backbone supports all that hops and the finish is the expected lingering bitterness. Well done.

Wife picked this up in Wis. Good pine and citrus aroma. Copper body with off white head and good laceing left on pint glass. Some dry cirus vine resin in flavor along with some sugary citrus flavor. Cool and crisp on the palate little dry lingers afterward but good refreshment.

Bomber from Canals in Lawrenceville, NJ. Light chestnut pour under a medium dusky white head. Piney and citrusy aroma. Grapefruit punches you up front then the flavor mellows and balances with hearty malt. Mild vanilla and milk chocolate compliment the flavor. Silky mouthfeel with a bitter hook. A smartly crafted stoopid ale.

Aroma is dank orange hops, lots of residual sugar, a bit of fresh grapefruit rind, and malt. Wow. Smells like a nice barleywine. Apperance is golden mead with scant, quickly disappearing head. Taste is initially all oranges, but slowly gives way to a pine bitterness and malt sweetness that is very well in-balance for the style. Lots of backbone on this one, surprisingly. Perhaps underattenuated? There is a lot of gravity here, but a lower than expected alcohol level just going by taste and past experience. Second taste brings more grapefruit rind into play with the sharp carbonation and crisp, sweet malt backbone. Simple, but very, very nice. Finish is not very cloying, and lingers decently well with the rind bitterness. This is very, very nice.

So I’m getting pretty tired of super-malty hop bombs, but for some reason this one just really sat well with me last night. It’s by no means a perfect beer, and I can understand the "it’s a syrupy mess" complaints, but for the price/quality ratio it’s hard to go wrong. I’m not sure I’d pick this over Pliny, but luckily I haven’t moved to CA yet, so I don’t have to make that decision. I think Hop Stoopid and Old Rasputin can be kin in the "solid and reasonably-priced beer that hasn’t been hyped to death" category.

Pours a nice brownish orange with a fluffy white head. Aroma is citrusy hops, pine and malt. Flavor is caramel, pine, fresh citrusy oily resinous hops, grapefruit. Has a nice oily mouthfeel and finishes a bit astringent and bitter with some lingering sweetness and citrus to counteract the bitteress just enough to work well.