Lagunitas
After Hiatus, Lagunitas Brown Shugga Returns!
Lagunitas had to cut Brown Shugga’ from it’s lineup last year. Brown Shugga’ is a more expensive beer to produce, and for every case of Shugga‘ Lagunitas brewed, they were short 3 cases of their daily beers. Production with the new brewhouse installed, and Brown Shugga’ has made it’s return. The beer exists thanks to an accident. Lagunitas had a failed batch of Olde Gnarlywine in 1997, so they tried to fix it with brown sugar. You know what happened from here.
Style: Barlywine (w/ Brown Sugar)
Availability: 12oz botttles, Draft
9.84% ABV
Lagunitas DayTime Fractional IPA
Lagunitas burns down this house in DayTime: A Fractional IPA. The description talks of burning it all down and starting something new. Perhaps we all need that sometimes.
We stood there for a while watching as the house burned. As the roof collapsed. As the rear wall with the whole back deck still connected surged forward under the weight of the flames, momentarily smothering the flare below. It only to explode brightly with a rush of cinders and a wall of fresh heat thrust in our direction. What artifact had just burst into the midnight air? A wedding dress? An old box of photographs? It was all gone or going now. The blaze was making something new at the same time. Something more primal and less evolved By morning the weighty things of the past would be reduced to vapor, heat, light, and cinders – receptive to the slightest wishful breeze. There is a freedom in burning down the house of fixed realities and it confers an undeniable lightness to being. We didn’t invent truths; They invented us. Come see it all sometime or just call us!
Style: American IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA
4.9% ABV
Zymurgy’s Best Beers In America 2012
Zymurgy Magazine, the official Journal of the American Homebrewer’s Association just published their results from the reader’s rankings. For the 4th year in a row, Russian River’s Pliny The Elder takes 1st place. Bell’s Two Hearted and Dogfish Head 90 Minute aren’t far behind for best IPA in the country. Interestingly, the harder to find Pliny The Younger ranked at the other end of the list, at #48.
More than 16,000 votes were received in this years vote. Check out the full story for brewery rankings. (T= Tied) [AHA]
| 1. Russian River Pliny the Elder |
| 2. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale |
| 3. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA |
| 4. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale |
| 5. Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale |
| 6. Bell’s Hopslam |
| 7. Sierra Nevada Celebration |
| 8. Stone Ruination IPA |
| 9. Sierra Nevada Torpedo |
| 10. North Coast Old Rasputin |
| 11. Firestone Walker Union Jack |
| 12. Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye |
| 13. Bear Republic Racer 5 |
| 14. Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale |
| 15. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA |
| 16. Firestone Walker Double Jack |
| T17. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA |
| T17. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot |
| 19. Stone IPA |
| 20. New Belgium Fat Tire |
| 21. Deschutes Black Butte Porter |
| 22. Avery Maharaja |
| 23. Founders Breakfast Stout |
| 24. Left Hand Milk Stout |
| T25. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA |
| T25. New Belgium Ranger |
| T25. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale |
| 28. Deschutes The Abyss |
| 29. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout |
| 30. Surly Furious |
| T31. Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin |
| T31. Rogue Dead Guy |
| T31. Samuel Adams Boston Lager |
| 34. Troegs Nugget Nectar |
| T35. Lagunitas IPA |
| T35. New Belgium La Folie |
| T37. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron |
| T37. Founders KBS |
| T37. Russian River Blind Pig IPA |
| 41. Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale |
| 42. Victory Prima Pils |
| 43. Great Divide Yeti |
| T44. Alaskan Smoked Porter |
| T44. Anchor Steam |
| T44. Lagunitas Hop Stoopid |
| T44. Samuel Adams Noble Pils |
| T48. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter |
| T48. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy |
| T48. Russian River Pliny the Younge |
Lagunitas Releasing New Mondo-Uber-Extra-Colossal-Double-PILS
Ah, the saga of Lagunitas. They order a new brewhouse and it gets clobbered in transit. Meanwhile, the brewery’s founder Tony Magee does some number crunching and finds that it is much more cost effective to build another brewhouse in his previous home of Chicago.
Seasonals have been pretty FUBAR too, thanks to production issues caused by the brewhouse debacle. However, there is a diamond in the rough. A new seasonal will emerge now that the new brewhouse is in working order. Lagunitas PILS is being cranked up big time. Coming in August : Mondo-Uber-Extra-Colossal-Double-PILS. A beefy (and no doubt imperial) edition of PILS.
Style: Imperial Pilsner
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: August, 2012
?? ABV
Lagunitas Lucky 13.alt Returns
Lagunitas Lucky 13.alt has returned. This American strong ale is a take on the brewery’s Lucky 13 recipe. Described as BIG on the Amarillo Hops But Lightened Up On The Malt Side… She Turned Into A Mondo Blonde For Summer! Virtual tasting from Lagunitas below.
Style: American Strong Ale
Availability: 22 oz bombers, Draft. Early summer.
8.3% ABV
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Lagunitas Chi Town Deal Inked
The Lagunitas deal is now official. Brewery founder Tony Magee has announced that he has signed a the lease on the Chicago location. A new 250 barrel (7,750 gallon per time) brewhouse will be built at a former steel plant at 18th & Rockwell Streets.
Magee has mentioned/tweeted that he wants the tap room open by November of 2011. The goal is for drinkers to watch the brewery be built while they have a pint. Expect the new brewhouse to be functional in late 2013.
Popular Lagunitas Sucks To Be Year Round
Lagunitas is making plans to bump “Lagunitas Sucks” to year round status. The holiday release that brewed in lieu of Brown Shugga’ was an instant hit. The IPA’s fan base grew exponentially overnight. Thanks to a new brewhouse damaged in transit, Lagunitas couldn’t brew Big Hairy Eyeball shortly after Sucks release. Enter Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Leftovers Ale. A hit, yet again.
Sucks will return again at the end of 2012. The brewery will start brewing it year round after the 2012 release. The package size is yet to be determined.
Undercover Shutdown will most likely return in June, 2012 as soon as the new brewhouse is up and running.
