Phase Change
Lagunitas Brewing Company

Bottle from Brewers Haven. Golden with a light haze, lasting cap of creamy head. Sweet, fruity aroma, light malty character. Taste has caramel malts with faint fruity notes. Small sting at the finish. Full, rich.

another one of the frozen wet hop beers from these guys, in the born again yesterday vein, tasty when super fresh, but not as good as that one overall, let alone the original born yesterday, which is among the best lagunitas beers ever. this one is more squarely an ipa than a pale, more bitter, but super juicy too, just with a rather similar hop profile, mosaic driven, some simcoe, we have seen this many times before, but its the ability to have them in all their fresh glory, no kiln, out of season, that makes this cool even if its samey. rust orange tinted, a little hazy, some flakey sediment when its a little older, but a high and thick white head, looks nice, not too cleaned up, and it smells astonishingly hoppy at its best, peachy, orangey, ripe and drippy with a little weedy thing as well, fresh flowers, cantaloupe, and some pine and milled lumber, enough malt to be balanced but not malty in the classic sense, off dry to me. the flavor is similar, a little more danky resinous character through it, a touch less fruity than it smells, but still some dried apricot and mango notes, clean lemon, and a hash sort of pungency, really neat, and bold and powerful for mosaic and simcoe and citra, a little different than how they normally manifest, and without any greeness. i do get some alcohol sneaking up as it warms, some cereal heft to the malt and a touch of sweetness, and it has a little more body overall than born again yesterday, longer too, but i like the bitterness, the way the wetness of the mosaic specifically is still on display, and overall this science and process is pretty darn cool for beer drinkers everywhere. surprised more breweries have not pursued similar innovations with wet hops...

 

Mine was kind of skunked, but I imagine it would be better if it were fresher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its National IPA Day, so I went were I usually don't (The promotional discount made it relatively painless): Draught pint at The Brass Tap here in Baltimore

Poured from a 16 ounce can into a tulip glass.

Look- Medium gold, hazy, visible particles, frothy white head, average head retention and lacing.

Smell- Pineapple, melon, guava, mango.

Taste- Melon, guava, stone fruit, mango.

Feel- Medium body, average carbonation, slightly prickly.

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at Mule Bar