Born Yesterday Pale Ale | Lagunitas Brewing Company

4.31/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

3.85/5  rDev -12.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

4.06/5  rDev -7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

3.77/5  rDev -14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

4.46/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.82/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

I waited to have the whole 6 bottles over a period of 8 weeks to do the review. All the flavors and aromas were more intense as time passed by. Surprising since this is not an aging beer.The last bottle was truly amazing. A combination of tropical flavors with very distinct pineapple and faint passion fruit. This is definitely in my style.

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4.05/5  rDev -8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.09/5  rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4/5  rDev -9.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

5/5  rDev +13.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

4.43/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.5/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.47/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.24/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.23/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

4.25/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

3.97/5  rDev -9.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4.56/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Superb APA!!!!!

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4.23/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

4.01/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Hazy with a very tropical smell. Tangerine, pineapple, grapefruit aroma notes. Floral, tropical taste. Good mouthfeel, maybe a little too bitter for a pale. Great balance. Very good pale ale.

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3.69/5  rDev -16.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Poured into a small chalice: color is hazy straw gold, head is off white with fine to small bubbles, presents about 1/2 inch thick, head lingers well and provides spotty lacing on the glass sides with a solid top.

Smell is lightly tropical, some citrus rind, herbs, pretty fresh, but not much malt character.

Taste is similar to aroma with citrus, some tropical fruits, herbs, a little more malt presence with light biscuit.

Mouthfeel is moderate with light bitterness, lingering dryness.

Overall a good beer, but not quite sure I see as exceptional - easy drinking hop presence but just needs some more malt.

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4.59/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Each year, this extraordinary APA becomes more elusive. This year, I was able to bag 3 sixers at our local Total Wine. Had the last one today (they miraculously lasted three weeks), and sadness has set in. Worth the hunt in every way.

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