Lagunitas all taste the same?

A common yeast strain is what I've been told creates a consistent taste, even across styles. I would add Great Lakes to your list of beer with an identifiable flavor throughout the lineup. Imperial IPA, dortmunder, pale ale; they all have some kind of semi-chalky, biscuit flavor. Like the beers, but can definitely tell it's one of theirs.

 

I don't think their beers taste the same but I think Lagunitas has a very distinct hop profile. If you blindy tested a few IPA's I think you could pick out the Lagunitas.

 

We've (myself and @blackie) been saying this for years, but NOT in a good way!

 

I don't agree on the Belgian brews AT ALL. How can you say a Saison tastes the same as any of the abbey styles?

 

I've liked all the Lagunitas I've tried, the least, curiously, was their Maximum IPA. Maybe a bit too malty (to me, this 'hides' the hops). Maybe it's in their grain bill.

 

oh god, maximus and brown shugga (SO FAR - STOKED to try sucks!!!) are by far my fav from them. Maximus very well might be my (thus far) favorite DIPA

There is a health level of malt there, but I also think maximus has more than enough delicious, juicy pineapple hops

 

I didn't say the style of a saison is the same. I said most breweries that call a beer a saison, make some garbage that tastes like a dubbel/triple. I would definitely be up for some suggestions on a good saison. I love that style, just not most of the examples that breweries try to pass as such...

You missed the "some" part of my post, when refering to saisons/farmhouses.

 

I have never tasted a belgian saison that came even remotely close to tasting like a dubbel or tripel. Weird.

 

I agree they tend to share a certain flavor profile due to the yeast strain they use, more so than other breweries perhaps (Great Lakes also seems to have a reoccurring flavor in all their beers). Still good stuff IMO. Cheers!

 

Like many have said I find similarities in SOME of their beers but I wouldn't say they ALL taste the same.

 

I've noticed this (house taste) phenomenon with a few breweries already. Two of them being Unibroue and Beau's. All their beers (even if different in style) have a similar taste that makes you link them all together.

This does not mean that they aren't good by any means.

 

What amazes me is how all their beer tastes like beer.

 

Nope

 

21st Amendment beers all have a very generic and mediocre taste to me.

I definitely think Lagunitas beers have a same/similar taste. I'm assuming their house yeast strain and possibly using the same hopping techniques is the cause. Personally I don't really care for the flavor but I sort of applaud them for putting out something unique.

 

I dunno, i think i'm just in a belgian rut. Lol I need one to blow my mind again to get me back in them. I just had The Bruey's Saison Rue, Mischief, and Autumn Maple. The Autumn Maple was pretty tasty, but the other 2 were pretty mediocre IMO. All i tasted was the same played out yeast strain, killing any way of trying to make an assumption of what malts/hops were used...

 

i find a striking similarity between their new dogtown and imperial red. so yes they do have a similar taste but its one i like so,
cheers lagunitas.

 

saison rue mediocre?!! Omg... that one is definitely in my top 5 ever. It's interesting because I think it's a pretty unique saison with its use of rye

 

I find quite a bit of distinction between Daytime and their other offerings, at the very least. Also, their Gnarleywine is nothing like anything else I've tasted by them. People don't often regard how much flavor is created by specific yeast strains. If Lagunitas is pretty loyal to one strain, that could be the common denominator that folks note among their various beers.

 

I agree that yeast strain plays a huge roll. I still enjoy most of Lagunitas beers and really cant say that I dislike any of them. As a comparison I find that Sierra Nevada's beers tend to all have a similar quality to them as well. A quality I attribute to the yeast strain they use.

 

you know I've been a BIG fan but I finally tried Brown Shugga (how can I be a fan if I hadn't had Brown Shugga? well the last few years I don't think we've gotten very much if any in Denver) and I think this one is just too sweet for me. Just a little to OTT on the crystal/caramel malts, or maybe they mash this one a little warmer, but whatever I didn't love it. Fortunately other members of my family love it, so the sixer isn't staring at me from the fridge...

And it made me go back and taste the Sumpin Sumpin a little more critically too. It's pretty sweet too! But not as cloying as Brown Shugga.

Have a Hop Stoopid bomber and a Sumpin Wild bomber in the fridge, will probably do one or the other tonight...

PS those who have posted on the yeast strain they use as contributory to this residual sweetness--do you know what they use? I was attributing it to grain bill and mash temp, had thought they were using something like WLP 051 which I think is plenty attenuative...though obvsly not as attenuative as, say, the Chico strain. (I thought it was WLP 051 from the sort of fruity nose...)