Price: $3.49 (for 22oz) plus bottle deposit
Style: Imperial Stout
Color: Black, with a slight deep brown color on the edges.
Aroma: Roasted grains (might be Barley), with some hop aroma, even a touch of Chocolate grain aroma.
Body: full. Not a heavy body, but definitely full.
Stomach Aspect: Full. Half way through my pint my stomach is telling me it's getting full.
Head: about 1/4" once poured, but leaves quickly.
Head Retention: I would give it a three second on head retention.
Taste: The first initial taste you think you're drinking a very heavy beer, but the body doesn't fill the mouth as a traditional Stout, or Imperial Stout should. There is no real flavor on the sweet part of the tongue, as well as the salty part of the tongue. Move the beer over your Sour part of your tongue and you get a slight hint of bitterness from the Roasted Barley grains. When the beer hits your mid-tongue you get a definite Alcohol presence (which an Imperial beer should give with an ABV rating of 10.14). As the beer moves over the back of your tongue you get a definite bitterness from the hops, which is a Lagunitas trademark in all their beers. But the hop bitterness is quickly removed by the presence of the high alcohol content. The hop bitterness lingers on the back of the tongue for about 1-2 minutes, almost like an IPA trademark.
Conclusion: The beer has a pretty nice feel on the tongue, and the aromas are very welcoming. When the beer is making its way across your tongue you are presented with several aspects of the beer. You get a hint of Barley, with a great introduction to the alcohol followed by a hop bitterness and finally the alcohol taste makes a comeback and finishes off the beer as you swallow.
I am not a big fan of the Lagunitas beers, but this one is very tolerable. I can see myself drinking this and not thinking twice about what I just put down my gullet. However, I do see this beer as a forgettable once the bottle has been removed, or you have emptied the bottle.
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