Lagunitas - Born Yesterday 2016

for folks who want to know more about hops used in brewing, this should help:
https://www.morebeer.com/articles/homebrew_beer_hops

 

This beer is fantastic! If this was released in cans in limited quantities where people line-up for beer ( OH, Monkish, Tree House, name your local hyped brewery) , people would be losing their shit over this beer.

 

Finally found some today....OMG this stuff is amazing......A 6 pack won't be enough...

 

Just wanted to add to the pictures. Mine was not hazy in the Trill or Bissell sense. It was quite clear. I dont really care either way. If I want hazy I know where to go. Still a great beer.

 

For scale. Same lighting, same glass, same night. Big difference and this is a less hazy trill beer than typical.

 

When I poured mine it was quite hazy...You could see it hazy in the bottle....

 

Delicious brew from Lagunitas. Lovely to look at-nice and hazy, super aromatic, superb taste-dry and crisp, loving every sip.

Cheers all.

 

Definitely unfiltered.... Quite delicious though...

 

Found Brown Shugga right next to Born Yesterday on the grocery shelf. Quite the tasty pair!

 

LOVE IT!!! I can't believe this beer is this good!

 

Got a spot light right above the beer in the pic and still doesn't shine all the way through. Juice Bomb status here!

 

This beer's taste reminds me of Hop Lab Citra from Kane. Nothing wrong with that at all

 

Weird, yours doesn't look like mine. My beer (had another last night) looks exactly like @azurel 's. The weird part is you're in Mass too. The less hazy pics have been from the West Coast.

Curious if there's a way to determine the batch number or where it was brewed, because obviously all of the bottling dates are 10/17.

 

There is a number below the label, not sure what it's for. Prettty difficult to read but mine is 61008C0060546, fwiw, I'm on the east coast and the beer is hazy.

 

I recently posted my discussion of this beer in the New Beer Sunday thread:

Wet, Hoppy, Fresh and ‘Juicy’ – The Perfect Trifecta (plus one)!!

So today’s beer for NBS is the 2016 Lagunitas Born Yesterday Pale Ale Fresh Hop Unfiltered beer.

From the Lagunitas website:

“BORN YESTERDAY FRESH HOP PALE ALE IS HERE!

Quite possibly the freshest Fresh Hop ale you'll get your paws on—Born Yesterday. How? Our farmer friends in Yakima, WA harvested and rushed straight-to-our-breweries the freshest wet, un-kilned hops. Then a herculean effort involving the Lagunitas brewers commenced with a quickness … sorting and picking through the hops to ensure the freshest of the fresh. After all the lupulin glands are sufficiently tickled, the hops go into a proprietary Borning Process which allows us to take these whole-cone hops (not pellets or oils or other sorcery) and deliver their absolute essence and liquid likeness to you in bottles and kegs for an immaculate reception.”

On the label in small print it states: Mosaic, Amarillo, Equinox & other special varieties …”

My bottle has “Borned 10/17/16” and I am pretty sure this beer was brewed at the Chicago brewery.

I bought this 6-pack (and a second one) earlier this week so I have already had several of these beers already.

There has been many spirited BA threads on the topic of the so called “NE” style IPA. I am personally ambivalent on whether another beer style needs to be defined since we already have so many beer styles but in one of those threads I did take a crack at ‘defining’ this alleged new beer style (read below):

“Permit me to take a crack at itemizing the necessary attributes for a beer to be considered a so called “NE” style IPA:

Appearance: The first thing that most people discuss is the hazy/murky/turbid/opaque aspect of these beers. This sort of makes sense since the appearance of these beers certainly do ‘jump out’ to lots of folks including me. I will frankly admit that I personally find a clear(er) beer to be more aesthetically appealing but I am able to drink these murky beers without too much trouble. The concept here is that the brewers are not specifically shooting for a turbid beer but that this appearance is simply an artifact of the overall brewing process. So, what exactly is the reason for this opaque appearance? I have a simple, but incomplete, theory here: the haziness is caused by using certain English ale yeast strains along with very heavy late hoping (including dry hoping) using aroma hops that are high in essential oils. Maybe these beers are so turbid because of high levels of proteins and polyphenols (from the hops)?

Hop flavor profile: One distinguishing feature of “NE” style IPAs is that they are typically not very bitter compared to some West Coast style IPAs. I have had a number of West Coast style IPAs which feature large amounts of hop aroma/flavor; one example I can offer up is Pliny the Elder. It seems to me the so called “NE’ style IPAs have a differing attribute which lots of folks like to describe using the word “juicy”. IMO the term of “juicy” has challenges since it has a fair bit of ambiguity. For example, for my palate apple juice is quite different to my palate vs. orange juice. Unfortunately I personally do not have an alternative word here so I feel compelled at this point in time to stick with the verbiage of “juicy”. So, in summary a so called “NE” style IPA should have the attributes of moderate (lower) bitterness accompanied by a very prominent hop aroma/flavor with a “juicy” character.

Mouthfeel: Besides the attributes of hazy/murky/turbid/opaque I think this attribute may be the most unambiguous character of a so called “NE” style IPA. A so called “NE” style IPA should have a nice soft, velvety mouthfeel which is distinctly different from West Coast style IPAs. For example, Pliny the Elder does not have a soft/velvety mouthfeel.”

Wow, that is a lot of banter!! Time to drink.

Served in my Spiegelau IPA glass”

Appearance:

Pours a hazy (opaque/turbid/murky) yellow with a BIG billowy white head.

Aroma:

Wow! There is a BIG & vibrant hop aroma here!! A complex combination of tropical fruit, citrus, and even some resin.

Taste:

The flavors follows the nose: a tasty combination of tropical fruit, citrus and some resin. This beer has a quality that some folks like to describe by the word ‘juicy’.

Mouthfeel:

It has a nice smooth mouthfeel with moderate carbonation.

Overall:

This beer is AWESOME!!

There has been some discussion on BA whether a larger craft brewery (Lagunitas is distributed to most states) could produce a so called “NE” style beer and make it available on a widely distributed basis. This might be a daunting task for an everyday beer (i.e., available year round) but IMO Lagunitas has accomplished this for this special release beer. Since this specific beer features fresh (wet) hops it can only be a once a year beer but perhaps a very similar beer could be developed using non-fresh hops and produced periodically (akin to a periodic schedule like Stone Enjoy By)?

Cheers to Lagunitas for crafting such an excellent beer!!

@KOP_Beer_OUtlet @telejunkie @sierranevadabill @DogTown @StoneGreg

 

Yesterday I poured one of these for my step father. He is a long time craft beer drinker but doesn't keep up with the new styles such as NE IPA.

His first sip he stated how "juicy" the beer tasted. Said that it was like taking a drink of a fresh grapefruit... I have never had a NE IPA since living here in Michigan. What was funny to me as he was drinking it his description of what he was drinking pretty much hit on all the aspects of what people describe as NE IPA qualities.

So for me having someone that doesn't know that this specific new style exists yet describes this beer in the manner as such, pretty much summed it up for me....

Just wish I was able to try a beer from the specific style from the main breweries producing them to know for sure....

This Lagunitas product is possibly my favorite new beer produced in recent times. Pale ales really hit in my wheel house so it was going to hit with me. I had a 6er and had to go find another....

Locally, it is extremely low supply I had to call 4-5 bottle shops before I found one that had it in stock....

 

The banner under your avatar indicates that you are a beer trader; that is likely the most direct manner for you to obtain hazy, hoppy beers like those from Trillium, Tree House, Tired Hands, etc.

Cheers!

 

All true....Just a manner of finding something here worthy of trading....Haven't pursued it yet....

 

Ok, so, not to beat a dead horse. But my brother purchased two six packs, also in MA, and this is a different looking and tasting beer. Less hazy. Looks like @Sweatshirt 's beer and nothing like the beer I had in my six pack.

 

Is there anyone else who thinks Born Yesterday reminds them of Jai Alai? I'm wondering why Lagunitas doesn't market Born Yesterday in the Summer. It's a perfect hot weather beer.