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Born Again Yesterday
Lagunitas Brewing Company
- From:
- Lagunitas Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
Ranked #61 - ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,236 - Avg:
- 4.19 | pDev: 6.68%
- Reviews:
- 141
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 07, 2023
- Added:
- May 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 15
- Gots:
- 114
We’ve discovered that the Lagunitas brewers are part time alchemists... they’ve figured out how to keep wet hops wet all freakin’ year long! Born Again Yesterday Pale Ale, which features a delicious concoction of wet hops, reborn and unfiltered into our Born Yesterday Pale Ale. Congrats... It’s a beer again!
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Ratings by WVbeergeek:
Rated by WVbeergeek from West Virginia
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Aug 28, 2018
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Aug 28, 2018
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.21/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
its cool that they figured out a way to do wet hop beers in a season other than the fall, preserve the harvest in some way, and get this freshness of unkilned hops into the beer six months later or whatever, pretty smart. we have seen other brewers do stuff like this with different methodology, and for lagunitas i believe the hops are processed in a special way and flash frozen or something, preserving them without the kiln, keeping in tact all that wet fresh goodness. this is a similar or even identical recipe to born yesterday, which is done in the fall with hops right from the field, this is real good, even hits like a wet hop beer, but its not quite as punchy and fresh and breathtaking as the original, how could it be? still the wonderful hop profile is lovely in aroma and flavor, catty mosaic with the canned pineapple juiciness, a little pine and spruce thing, bitter grapefruit flesh and pith, a little citrus candy, ever so slightly green to me this time around, not onion but herbal definitely, nice evolution from front to back too, it changes as it sits, as it sips and then as it swallows, and as it warms. oily and slick, the wet hop feel is right, maybe slightly maltier than original born yesterday the way it presents, and the hops fade just a little faster too. i think this is a pretty amazing brew, i love the process and the effort to preserve the fresh hops, its way cool and totally original, but even with all this effort and technology, there nothing quite like the original born yesterday. im glad this exists, or used to anyway, it represents a major step forward for what is possible with hops. i think now a lot of the onus for this kind of hop preservation is being taken up by growers and processors now, not by brewers, as more hop products become available, cryo, lupulin powders, all sorts of advanced extracts and such, the possibilities are endless and perhaps have rendered this sort of labor and equipment intensive brewing not so feasible, but what a cool thing this is nevertheless! fresh hop beer all year around? heck yes!
Jan 07, 2023Rated by CuddlyREDRUM from Wisconsin
3.81/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A bit too much of a citrus taste, which simply puts it into the category of recent outings by Lagunitas like Phase Change and Citrasensis.
Oct 21, 2019Reviewed by bobv from Vermont
4.17/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
12 oz. bottled.
Born on 10/07/2019.
Moderate to vigorous pour yields a 5/4 inch white head over a fairly bright golden body with some sticky lacing. Subdued nose of tropical fruit, citrus and slight dank pine. Taste mirrors nose very nicely, well balanced, and finishing dank and dry. Nice feel and overall, yeah, I'd have another one. Cheers!!
Oct 19, 2019Born on 10/07/2019.
Moderate to vigorous pour yields a 5/4 inch white head over a fairly bright golden body with some sticky lacing. Subdued nose of tropical fruit, citrus and slight dank pine. Taste mirrors nose very nicely, well balanced, and finishing dank and dry. Nice feel and overall, yeah, I'd have another one. Cheers!!
Born Again Yesterday from Lagunitas Brewing Company
Beer rating:
93 out of
100 with
578 ratings
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