Lagunitas Born Yesterday Sightings/Thoughts

No sightings in NH yet (Portsmouth area) I'll peak again today.

Just to add a little more substance to this thread I hope that there isn't a difference between batches from each brewery this year.

Last year I had heard and read there were differences between the CA and the East Coast brewery batches. I had figured it was BS but I bought a few sixers to try it.

I found my first sixer(and the only draft pour I had at row34NH) to be hazy, creamy, juicy, and just absolutely fantastic. As good as say Fort Point, minus the stronger hop bite, Extremely well balanced.

The latter two sixers I bought, both from the same store on a different day and out of different cases were quite different.

They were more clear, a little more dank and resinous as well as hoppy. The body felt a bit different and even to someone else who had the 1st batch as I did it was off. I drank two of my batch one BY immediately when home as I was floored. The second two sixers sat in my fridge for weeks and weeks before I finished them.

Interestingly enough I was told the CA one was the hazier juicier batcher and the East Coast brewed stuff was the more clear and dank.

Anyways, feel free to share your thoughts.

 

FPM just posted it. Have not tried. Looks somewhat opaque.

 

I don't know if it's ok to post this but Joe's review of the beer last October was exactly what I experienced and how I felt.

Feel free to pull down if I violated and issues.

 

Total Wine in Natick has it. $12 or $13 a 6 pack.

 

Saw it at High Spirits in Providence this afternoon.

 

Pretty opaque here. Great smell, nice and fruity with some pine and light bitterness. Quite dry. Very good this year.

 

I have not had it this year, but remember really really liking it last year. What I had was definitely more in line with a west coast style ipa and not very hazy at all. It was however, very fragrant and had great tropical fruit/dank flavors.

 

I thought it was great. Seeing this for ~$10 / 6 next to a $15 four-pack of Founders Harvest and remembering when I chased that beer around for a bottle or two years ago made me laugh.

 

Grabbed a sixer for the Halloween weekend. Don't let me down Lagunitas!

 

Opened one up, unbelieavanle that this is mass distro. Hazy, great mouthfeel, juicy, dank. As good as last year! Awesome, awesome shelf beer! I'll try to get the pics up somewhere to show.

Well done Lagunitas

 

What the heck, your Halloween weekend starts on a Wednesday night?! Sweet.

 

First time having this....man this is a good beer. Straddles the line between northeast and west marvelously well. Floral, juicy, citrus, delicious

 

Yea yea, I couldn't wait to be Born'd. Still have 5

 

Saw it yesterday in southington ct for 12 or $13. Opted for celebration instead...

 

Grabbed a sixer at CBC Belmont. Has anyone seen 12 packs? That was the deal of a century last year.

I agree with @AlcahueteJ about it being a bit of a hybrid. It feels crisper and thinner in the mouthfeel with a little more back end bitterness than I remember, but man they are still the only national brand that nails that huge fruity nose. Great beer, though not *quite* the knockout I recall last year's being.

It'll still be a repeat purchase for me though. Especially if those $16 twelve packs show up.

 

Got a sample bottle from my rep, it was amazing, wish i hadnt shared it with my co workers haha! lots of citrus, hazy with a smooth mouthfeel