From our earliest days of striving to make consistently good beer, and
instead making beer that ranged from vile, to barely drinkable, to
wonderful, to elegant, to questionable-at-best. From being castigated by our
West Marin neighbors to finally suffering an 'eviction' by our West Marin
septic system. From landing in the welcoming arms of Petaluma, and actually
getting our beer into bottles, onto the streets, and into the hands of
sympathatic beer geeks, to steadily losing less money each month. From all
this and more, Lagunitas Brewing Company is emerging as a battle-tested
brewery capable of making great beer out of goat's milk, brambles, and
asphalt on the surface of the Moon, if need be.
As the poet once said, 'Where, but for the grace of God and the kindness of
strangers, go I'. Where go we indeed, whatever that means.
The Lagunitas Brewing Company was founded in 1993 in Lagunitas, California,
USA. They are known for iconoclastic interpretations of traditional beer
styles, and irreverent descriptive text and stories on their packaging.
Lagunitas Brewing's flagship, IPA, is consistently the best-selling IPA in
the state of California according to IRI, the widely cited consumer product
reporting company.
IPA
On the bottle label: "Thanks for choosing to spend the next few minutes with
this special homicidally hoppy ale. Savor the moment as the raging hop
character engages the Imperial Qualities of the Malt Foundation in mortal
combat on the battlefield of your palate!"
PILS
On the bottle label: "Like Adam and Eve, Isaac and Ishmael, Mao and
Confuscious [sic], Good and Evil, Day and Night, Hittites and Visigoths,
John and Lorena, or Groucho and Moe, Ales and Lagers are as different as can
be. Still, we must love each for who they are, separately but equally, with
liberty, and justice, for all. Cheers!"
Hop Stoopid
Lagunitas "Hop Stoopid" is an American Imperial (or Double) IPA. Hop Stoopid
has a alcohol content (ABV) of 8% and comes in at 102 IBUs. "Give it to
Mikey... He'll drink anything..!" Up the bomber went in toast, then to his
lips, and what happened next could not have been foreseen. Hop Stoopid, a
slick re-animator green fluid oozed from the bottle. When it crossed his
teeth and came in contact with the bitterness flavor receptors on his
tongue, his eyes rolled back in his head, he did a sort of death rattle, a
cloud crossed the Sun, and all his hair fell out. A spot on the side of his
cheek blistered and a little bit of juice squirted out laterally starting a
small fire. The rest of his head did the Indiana Jones melting Nazi thing,
and as his head drained down his shirt and into the open stump of his
esophagus. A little whistling noise came from his navel, which burst open
and onto his pals, one in the forehead and the other in the eye. Finally,
the carcass slumped forward in a gelatinous mess, caught fire, and burned
for three weeks. Let's talk. Call us @ 707-769-4495! Cheers!
Brown Shugga
Lagunitas "Brown Shugga" is an American Strong Ale. Brown Shugga has a
alcohol content (ABV) of 9.84% and comes in at 51.1 IBUs. We believe this
Special Ale is Something Unique. Feeding Brown Cane Sugar to otherwise
Cultured Brewery Yeast is a'kin to feeding Raw Shark to your Gerbil. It is
unlikely to ever occur in nature without Human Intervention. And it looks
weird besides. But it has happened and now it's too late.
