Heady 11.4% ABV triple IPA slips light rum sugaring into lemony orange-dried pineapple, grapefruit and tangerine conflux as dank pine tones and ‘sulfurous’ hops contrast toasted cereal malt graining.
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LAGUNITAS UNCENSORED PUNCH
Hawaiian cocktail punch with pinkish red glow, zesty tropical fruitfulness and dark rum sugaring (9% ABV) marketed as adventurous year round India Pale Ale variant. Sticky orange liqueur, syrupy kaffir lime and medicinal cherry illusions ensue.
LAGUNITAS HAZY WONDER INDIA PALE ALE
Sessionable summertime spritzer melds tropical fruited Citra hops with minty coconut-daubed Sabro hops and limey herbal Cashmere hops. Bright lemony yellow grapefruit zesting softly surfaces alongside mild grassy astringency and minor pining as wispy guava-pineapple salting settles near delicate white-breaded oats base.

LAGUNITAS ISLAND BEATS TROPICAL IPA
Easygoing beige yellow-cleared tropical fruit dry body places juicy pineapple, green mango and passionfruit tartness at the fore alongside salted lemony grapefruit zesting and distant kiwi-guava snips. But its light hop pining and passive white bread base are silenced.
LAGUNITAS THE WALDOS’ SPECIAL ALE (2022)
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, celebrating Cali stoner magnates, The Waldos, stylishly expressive, aggressively bitter-hopped IPA secures dry grapefruit-orange rind bittering with dank hemp-laced pine resin, herbaceous botanicals and juniper snips over mildly creamed caramel malting.
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LAGUNITAS SUPER CLUSTER CITRA-HOPPED MEGA ALE
Easygoing Citra-hopped IPA (limited edition 2019) pipes delicate yellow grapefruit bittering into light pine resin and doughy pale malts, leaving ancillary mandarin orange tartness, pineapple tanginess and mango sweetness to battle back latent alcohol-burnt astringency.
LAGUNITAS SUMPIN’ EASY ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, easygoing sweet ‘n sour pale ale places hard-candied grapefruit, pineapple and peach tartness above baked breaded white wheat base. Spritzy carbolic fizz teases citric-perfumed herbal hops. Summery satisfaction.
LAGUNITAS FUDGE AND SICKLE IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, bold chocolate-fudged vanilla bean entry saddled by lightly tannic French oak chips. Chocolate cookie, fudged brownie and dark cocoa illusions deepen mocha-vanilla blend above minor wood-smoked hop char.
LAGUNITAS FUSION 48 IMPERIAL IPA
On tap at Ambulance, stylistically easygoing Imperial IPA lets moderately sharp lemony grapefruit and orange rind bittering override grassy hop astringency and oats-sugared wheat malts. Mild orange-juiced tangerine, apricot and peach undertones flutter.
LAGUNITAS WILLETTIZED COFFEE STOUT AGED IN RYE OAK BARRELS
On tap at Ambulance, mild rye whiskey aging politely seeps into richly creamed coffee overtones of 12.6% ABV stout. Sweet cappuccino milking contrasts dry espresso bittering. Smoky chocolate continuance gains tertiary molasses, vanilla and Kahlua snips.
LAGUNITAS SAKITUMI ALE WITH SAKE YEAST AND RICE
On tap at Ambulance, uniquely hybridized IPA (with unobtrusive 8% ABV) utilizes dry rice-wined sake yeast to influence raw-honeyed orange oiling and wispy grapefruit-tangerine tang. Sweet bread flouring anchors enigmatic Japanese-wined medium body.