Lagunitas The Hairy Eyeball Ale

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

A Sim rate (on tap at Flying Saucer, Houston): Sweet plums, raisins, and sweet malty aroma that’s very alcoholic. Sweet, but very alcoholic flavour that’s almost too over-the-top. Plum, raisin. It’s bitter fruitcake. It’s not really my sort of thing. I don’t do fruitcake.

Draft. Reddish amber with a light beige head. Aroma is hoppy with some caremel and alcohol. Medium bodied with a very smooth mouthfeel. Flavor is lightly sweet with decent hop bitterness. Strong alcohol up front, which eventually recedes and some malt and caramel become present. Good.

Bottle from Case and Keg. Pours a reddish/brown color and a very small head. Aroma has caramel, maple, honey, oak and some raisin bread. Flavor is pretty sweet and has caramel malts, maple syrup, brown sugar and a slight hop finish. Very good, just a tad too sweet.

medium dark red-brown with small cream head. sweet raisin aroma, and a sweet malty flavor with a slightly dry and fruity finish.

Pours a ruby brownish color with a thin tan head. Aroma is sweet, malty, licorice, dark fruits. Taste is licorice, dark fruit. Tastes more like a barley wine to me than an american strong ale. Decent.

Location: 12 oz bottle from Gilly’s January ’09

Aroma: Some dark fruits, caramel
Appearance: Pours a really nice reddish-brown color, which was a nice start
Flavor: The dark fruits and caramel come through in the flavor, maybe a little bread taste to it as well.
Palate: interesting mouth feel, and a nice taste.
Overall Impression: Another nice offering from Lagunitas...Californians really get to enjoy a plethera of good breweries, way more then us East Coasters.

Bottle: Poured a reddish brown with an off white cream head. Aroma is sweet syrup and fruit. Taste is sweet caramel malts, some back end fruit and slight bitter. Leaves the tongue and mouth warm.

Crushed with Jakebra. Very sweet on the nose with a syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor is also quite sweet with a nice rush of bittering hops blowing through the finish. It’s a little hot from the alcohol. Neither a hit nor a miss, but more of a hit than a miss.