Again, it’s been too long folks. Adam and I are brewing homebrew and breaking in my new place. While the beer is going great, these are uncertain times. It calls for inner strength, exploration, and fucking great beer from Lagunitas. The brewery themselves call this beer “a malty, robust, jobless recovery ale”. Well Adam and I are all three of these when put together so we were ready to get down and get bottoms up. Oh and it’s ‘get retarded’ cheap. That was an awful description. Whatever.

Brewery Home: Petaluma, CA

Serving Style: Bomber into two pint glasses

Beer Style: American Brown WTF

Appearance: Dark amber red/brown with a sightly offwhite head. Lacing is strong and whispy, my glass is coated! Perfect clarity.

Aroma: Fragrant, with hints of almost berry (wort?! well we are brewing right now, dont listen to us), the hops are there but in the background? On more sips the hops become more and more apparent, they’re in there, lurking. Sweet malty overtones, dominated by caramel not roast. It makes no sense, almost like the name and the description on the bottle. Great!

Taste: My first sip was dominated by a wave of herbal American hops that subsided into well well rounded malts. The carbonation is light but on par for whatever style this is, the sip ends semisweet but not sticky; great for a brown. 64 IBUs? WUT? Best way to describe this beer is eyebrow raising. Adam: “it doesn’t make any sense”. Andy: “it’s fucking confusing and I like it.” Dangerously drinkable. Here is too the recovery…

ABV: 7.8%

Drink one or all?: 1 bomber should do you in.

Cost: $5/bomber

Overall: Adam: 16/20, Andy: 16/20. “Potent session beer.”