The Lagunitas Brewing Co., Petaluma, California, Craft BrewerThe Lagunitas Brewing Co.
The Lagunitas Brewing Co., Petaluma, California, Craft Brewer
instead making beer that ranged from vile, to barely drinkable, to wonderful, to elegant, to questionable-at-best. From being castigated by our West Marin neighbors to finally suffering an 'eviction' by our West Marin septic system. From landing in the welcoming arms of Petaluma, and actually getting our beer into bottles, onto the streets, and into the hands of sympathatic beer geeks, to steadily losing less money each month. From all this and more, Lagunitas Brewing Company is emerging as a battle-tested brewery capable of making great beer out of goat's milk, brambles, and asphalt on the surface of the Moon, if need be.
As the poet once said, 'Where, but for the grace of God and the kindness of strangers, go I'. Where go we indeed, whatever that means.
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Seasonal Ales Try the 22 ounce line of seasonals from Lagunitas! Check out the hard to find beers such as Hairy Eyeball Ale, Cappuccino Stout, Recession Ale, Imperial Red, #10 Ale, Brown Shugga, and whatever else the seasons may bring!
As the four winds shift, we see seasons come and seasons go. It seems these days like people's tastes shift as often as do the winds. We know for sure that we like to try something new from time to time. Seasonal flavors abound in the many different foods that we enjoy at certain times of the year, so why not with beer? Fall and Winter call for richness and warmth, while Spring and Summer call for crispness and refreshment. So it goes that colder weather calls for Brown Shugga and Hairy Eyeball Ale, while Summer beckons for Sirius Ale. Our brewers love the challenge of a new recipe, while our drinkers love the challenge of figuring out what the hell the weird story on the side panel has to do with the beer in the bottle.
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January warmer with several types of crystal malt. No actual eyeballs can actually be found in the beer.
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January the Designated Driver.
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April Paddy's Day Massacre. Defiant as to style ... We Can say for sure it is unforgiven and unrepentant.
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March into springtime. Rich, smooth, dangerous & chocolatey.
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July ness. Crispy Wheat and Pale Malt flavors with a Zippy Hop Finish. A Return of the Brand-Spankin' New Beer From The Summer of 2009.
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June on the hops and dark malts.
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October Each Batch, That's How! The Rich, Roasty and Mysteriously Drinkable Ale might best be described as... Irresponsible. It Leaves a Lot of Stories in it's Wake. ABV: 9.8%
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September Malted Wheat for a Curious Malt Foundation and a Light Color, But Our Belgian Yeast Leaves a Huge Flavor and Complexishness.
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December Malts and Roast Barley And Loads of Sebastopol's Hardcore Coffee for Even Bigger Roasty Flavors and that Extra Krunk.
Lagunitas Brewing CompanyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lagunitas Brewing Company is a brewery founded in 1993 in Lagunitas, California, USA. They are known for iconoclastic interpretations of traditional beer styles, and irreverent descriptive text and stories on their packaging.[1] Lagunitas Brewing's flagship, IPA, is consistently the best-selling IPA in the state of California according to IRI, the widely cited consumer product reporting company.
HistoryThe brewery was founded in 1993 by Tony Magee in Lagunitas, California and moved to nearby Petaluma, California when they quickly outgrew their original rural West Marin location.[2] Over the years from 1993 through 2007, Lagunitas has been among the fastest growing craft breweries in the U.S. producing nearly 52,000 barrels in 2007.[citation needed] BeersIn 2006, Lagunitas began releasing a series of limited edition beers marking the 40th anniversary of each album by Frank Zappa. As of December, 2008, five beers have been released in the series, commemorating Zappa's albums from Freak Out! to Cruising with Ruben & the Jets. IPA (India Pale Ale)Lagunitas Brewing Company's flagship beer. Moderately hoppy and well balanced IPA. Copious Cascade and Centennial hops with Crystal malt. "An IPA built to make you want another sip."[3] On the bottle label: "Thanks for choosing to spend the next few minutes with this special homicidally hoppy ale. Savor the moment as the raging hop character engages the Imperial Qualities of the Malt Foundation in mortal combat on the battlefield of your palate!" PILS (Czech Style Pilsner)On the bottle label: "Like Adam and Eve, Isaac and Ishmael, Mao and Confuscious [sic], Good and Evil, Day and Night, Hittites and Visigoths, John and Lorena, or Groucho and Moe, Ales and Lagers are as different as can be. Still, we must love each for who they are, separately but equally, with liberty, and justice, for all. Cheers!" ALE (Hop Stoopid)The bottle label begins with lyrics from Steely Dan's 1976 single "Kid Charlemagne": " 'Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail... those test tubes and the scale... just get 'em all outta here...' " The lyrics were loosely inspired by the exploits of the infamous 1960s San Francisco-based LSD chemist Owsley Stanley. Humorously modifying this fact, the label continues: "He was referring to the complex super-critical-CO2 hop extraction equipment set up on the table in the lab across from the brewhouse. Hop extracts are for the BIG brewers, he thought - suitable only for crummy sub-standard and barely-passable industrial lagers, not the subtle and elegant craft beer made here. But wrong he was. The New Brewer does not eschew any possible inputs. In this case the extract will replace the mountains of hop vegetative material in the kettle thus creating cleaner hop flavors and preventing the otherwise spinach-like mess of a kettle full of super-hopped wort from clogging up a pump or worse. The sensuous honey-like amber ooze was administered intravenously to the wort kettle and the sacrament was complete. Another kettle of Hop Stoopid is once again raised up and fermented on high. Call us @ 707-769-4495 Cheers!" Hop StoopidLagunitas "Hop Stoopid" is an American Imperial (or Double) IPA. Hop Stoopid has a alcohol content (ABV) of 8% and comes in at 102 IBUs. "Give it to Mikey... He'll drink anything..!" Up the bomber went in toast, then to his lips, and what happened next could not have been foreseen. Hop Stoopid, a slick re-animator green fluid oozed from the bottle. When it crossed his teeth and came in contact with the bitterness flavor receptors on his tongue, his eyes rolled back in his head, he did a sort of death rattle, a cloud crossed the Sun, and all his hair fell out. A spot on the side of his cheek blistered and a little bit of juice squirted out laterally starting a small fire. The rest of his head did the Indiana Jones melting Nazi thing, and as his head drained down his shirt and into the open stump of his esophagus. A little whistling noise came from his navel, which burst open and onto his pals, one in the forehead and the other in the eye. Finally, the carcass slumped forward in a gelatinous mess, caught fire, and burned for three weeks. Let's talk. Call us @ 707-769-4495! Cheers! Maximus IPA[70 IBUs] A "bigger" IPA than the flagship Lagunitas IPA. "More hops, more alcohol and more body ... Similar hops of the IPA, just more of them... spicy finish with s lot of rose petal with just a increased emphasis on the hops. 8.2% ABV (sic)."[4]. Brown ShuggaLagunitas "Brown Shugga" is an American Strong Ale. Brown Shugga has a alcohol content (ABV) of 9.99% and comes in at 51.1 IBUs. On the label is the following: We believe this Special Ale is Something Unique. Feeding Brown Cane Sugar to otherwise Cultured Brewery Yeast is a'kin to feeding Raw Shark to your Gerbil. It is unlikely to ever occur in nature without Human Intervention. And it looks weird besides. But it has happened and now it's too late. See alsoExternal linksCoordinates: Categories: Beer brewing companies based in California | Companies based in Sonoma County, California
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