Born Again Yesterday
Lagunitas Brewing Company

Born Again YesterdayBorn Again Yesterday
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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:
578
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:
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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
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

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, 2023
 
Rated: 4.28 by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota

Nov 03, 2021
 
Rated: 3.5 by NickMunford from Wyoming

Jul 17, 2021
 
Rated: 4.25 by Yungcoolship from Wisconsin

Feb 05, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by grapeshops from California

Jan 28, 2021
 
Rated: 3.89 by BeerLover99 from Illinois

Jan 03, 2021
 
Rated: 5 by Urk1127 from New Jersey

Dec 01, 2020
 
Rated: 4.14 by DiggerDahl from North Dakota

Nov 10, 2020
 
Rated: 4.25 by eawolff99 from Minnesota

Oct 24, 2020
 
Rated: 3.99 by Cotton_27 from Michigan

Apr 23, 2020
 
Rated: 4.21 by KingforaDay from New Jersey

Feb 03, 2020
 
Rated: 4.24 by lemmy187 from Missouri

Nov 18, 2019
 
Rated: 4.2 by Gagnonsux from Texas

Nov 09, 2019
 
Rated: 4.5 by JLaw55 from Missouri

Nov 06, 2019
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Rated by CuddlyREDRUM from Wisconsin

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, 2019
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Reviewed by bobv from Vermont

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, 2019
 
Rated: 4.05 by LostHighway from Minnesota

Oct 14, 2019
 
Rated: 4.49 by RitzCarling from Illinois

Jun 29, 2019
 
Rated: 4.12 by JoeMad from Michigan

May 04, 2019
Born Again Yesterday from Lagunitas Brewing Company
Beer rating: 93 out of 100 with 578 ratings