Lagunitas IPA:
Greetings and welcome fellow hop heads and today, I bring good news!  Well, actually, I hope each one of these reviews brings you happiness, joy, wealth (by the way, none of those are guaranteed results).   Today lets look at a beer that deserves to be looked at as an entry regular rotation IPA, right there with the likes of Dogfish 90 minute, Breckenridge’s 471 Small Batch, and several others (those two are favorite widely available IPAs for your’s truly).   Today we look at Lagunitas IPA, a nice IPA that is an awesome on ramp for those wanting to get into more serious beers.  The beer pours a nice blonde color with a bleached white head of foam that leaves decent lacing and a nice nose of pine notes and citrus.  The beer’s initial taste is heavy on those piney notes that moves to a good balance of the aforementioned pine and citrus on the mid tongue and back end while the aftertaste is a subtly dry and skunky but nothing to offensive.  This is one of the few Lagunitas beers that is widely available and is found in most bars that carry a decent bottle selection so I suggest trying one with a nice spicy dish (your food, not your date).