Lagunitas Brown Shugga vs. Oskar Blues G'Knight

I don't think so, the brown shugga is really sweet for me and is not something I am a huge fan of. G'Knight I enjoy a lot, it's really more of a DIPA with great bitterness and hopped up aroma and flavor to match.

 

Both beers balance a hefty malt bill with a sizable hop profile but that is where much of the similarities end for me. G'Knight is a bit drier, Brown Shugga is much sweeter. Brown Shugga is also a steal for the price where as G'Knight is a little pricey.

 

I've only had G'Knight once, but these beers aren't even close. Brown Shugga is disturbingly sweet. G'Knight was a very hoppy red if I remember right.

 

I would say not at all, although technically I never had G'Knight, I only had it when it was still known as Gordon. Is there is a big difference if any between G'Knight and Gordon?

 

Had many of both. Nope.

 

G'Kight is hoppier and the malt is more honey like to me.

 

Brown shugga is much sweeter, and G'Knight is more bitter. G'Knight is a much better beer IMHO.

 

I agree. The more that I drank, the more I noticed some sweetness, but by no way as sweet as others are saying.

 

Take it for what it is but brown shugga is around 50 IBUs in a 9.8% beer. G'knight is 85 IBUs in a 8.7% beer. I higher alcohol beer (more malt, higher OG) with less IBUs is going to taste sweet. Brown shugga's sweetness kills the beer for me, I enjoy it once in awhile but will not drink it often. There is still hop flavor but not much balancing bitterness.

 

If anything, G'Knight is more similar to Lagunitas Imperial Red.

 

Dissimilar is more like it.

 

Not even close IMO.

Brown Shugga: Sweet, sticky, little hop to it. good malt.

G'Knight: Big, red, grapefruit, pine, bitter, not sweet.

I love em both, but have never thought of any similarities, both have high ABV's, but thats about it.

 

not even close. how many beers had you had previous to this 'revelation"?

 

Seriously.
90% of the time a BA describes a beer as sweet, I'm left scratching my head.
BA Naked Evil, Rumpkin, J.W. Lees Harvest Ale...these brews are sweet.
Nothing from Lagunitas or Oskar Blues is sweet.

 

Brown Shugga, sweet. Gnarleywine, sweet. Old Chub, sweet. TenFIDY, sweet. Sweet does not have to be overwhelming to be sweet, it just has to be sweet. All of these beers may have other flavors but a sweetness is part of the flavor profile.

 

As you said, there's a sweetness to these beers but it's overshadowed by hop or roasted/bready malt, they ain't sweet.

 

This boils down to semantics but I feel that there is a misconception that just because a beer is hoppy, roasty or whatever that it cannot also be sweet. A beer can be many things at once, just because people are calling a beer a sweet beer it does not mean it cannot also be other things. Brown Shugga is a sweet beer, yes it is hoppy as well but it is undoubtedly sweet.