Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale Video Beer Review | San Diego Beer Vlog EP 256

Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale/Holiday Leftovers Ale, 7.85% ABV

"This sad holiday season we didn't have the brewing capacity to make our favorite seasonal brew, the widely feared BrownShugga' Ale. You see we had a couple of really good years (thank you very much) and so heading into this season while we are awaiting the January delivery of a new brewhouse we are jammin' along brewing 80 barrels of IPA and PILS and such every 3 hours. A couple of months back we realized that since we can only brew a mere 60 barrels of Shugga' every 5 hours, that we were seriously screwed. For every case of Shugga' brewed, we'd short 3 cases of our favorite daily beers. It's a drag. This year, we brewed something that we think is also cool and brews more like our daily brews. The new brewhouse will help insure this kind of failure never happens again. It's a mess that we can not brew our BrownShugga' this year and we suck for not doing it. There is nothing cool about screwing this up this badly and we know it. Maybe we can sue our own sorry selves. There is no joy in our hearts this holiday and the best we can hope for is a quick and merciful end. F*@& us. This totally blows. Whatever. We freaking munch moldy donkey butt and we just want it to be all over...
So this substitute beer is a 'Cereal Medley' of Barley, Rye, Wheat, and Oats.... Full of complexishness from the 4 grains, and weighing in at 7.85% abv, Then joyously dry-hopped for that big aroma and resinous hop flavor."

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• Lagunitas
• Petaluma
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• Sucks Holiday Ale
• Sucks Holiday Leftovers Ale
• doube IPA
• IPA
• hops
• Brown Sugga'
• Hairy Eyeball
• Hop Stoopid
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[cschlish]

Wow, Definitely not gonna replace Hop Stoopid Ryan, a lot of people out their like Hop Stoopid better than Pliney the Elder...It IS a Balanced DIPA though with a bigger Malt Character to it than most w/some pine and a lot of Citrus. I get an average bottle now and again too, where it's a mehe. But then, I get a GREAT bottle of it and it blows me away on the nose/taste!

Sucks was about a B for me as well, I prefer their other two DIPA's. For the PRICE Lagunitas is hard to beat, every style!

[StumpyJoeJr]

@cschlish I guess I'll have to try Hop Stoopid on draft and hope it's a fresh keg. I think that will be the way to go to see how much I like it. They definitely price their beers right.

[MSJsoul]

Great review. Lagunitas brews do have great aroma. Something I notice about their beers and it could be a freshness issue, but they often taste very "oily" to me. Not sure what that is. Hop Stoopid has had this characteristic several times. I also notice a vinegar taste sometimes especially after letting them sit. Perhaps that relates to the sweet orange notes you mention. Again this could be freshness but if you cant get one of these fresh in SD then that's strange. Like the hariy eyeball!

[StumpyJoeJr]

@MSJsoul Yeah, I'm not sure what that would be. I usually buy their seasonals so I know they are fresh. I've been burned on Hop Stoopid too often.

[ChadzBeerReviews]

I had this on tap at Mahar's and it was awesome. If you can send me a bottle of this in the trade that'd be awesome!

[StumpyJoeJr]

@ChadzBeerReviews Yeah, I can certainly send you a bottle. I'll add it to the list.

[StumpyJoeJr]

@bigpapykane Seems like most people have. I missed at a chance to try Winter Ale at a tasting but I'll keep an eye out for it.

[StumpyJoeJr]

@Tantrum777 Well, I was struggling between B+/A- and decided it didn't "wow" me enough to be an A-. Still a great beer though.

[bigpapykane]

I actually enjoyed this beer a lot more than you did. You should try and look for Kern River's Winter Ale, its like "Sucks" on steroids!!

[Tantrum777]

Wow I am really surprised you did not give this an A- or better. I think its worthy of all the praise its been getting. Having said that, I dunno about the new batch.