Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale:
Hello all and, after two days of hitting the “main stream”, it’s back to craft brews. Today we revisit Lagunitas Brewery, makers of that great breakfast beer Cappacino Stout from earlier in the year on January 29 and now here we are again, visiting our friends from Petaluma. Today’s beer is a hybrid of sorts taking a wheat beer and combining it with a strong pale ale. Lagunitas’ Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ is a wheat beer with a kick that makes this a good wheat beer for those of us beer drinkers trying to avoid being used by wheat beers (you know who you are). The beer pours really well leaving a small head which is dense and last most of the beer. The nose is of fruits and flowers due to the large variety of hops as well as the three different types of wheat. The taste is of strong hops on the front of the tongue that has the subtle mellow flavor of a wheat beer and has a rather surprisingly sour back end. A good beer though I think that the excessive hops will turn away a lot of people from trying this beer which is a shame but then again, there is no accounting for taste.