Lagunitas Hop Stoopid:
Hello hop lovers and admirers and a hearty welcome back or, if it’s needed, welcome for the first times.  Today let’s skip back to the Golden State and their great little brewery, Lagunitas.  Today we look at a nice hoppy beer from Lagunitas, Hop Stoopid which seems to be a very fitting for a beer that was “massively -dry hopped for your aromatic please” and describes what hops can do to us hop-heads- in other words, it makes us stupid.  Stupid enough to buy overly hopped beers, drink them out of brandy snifters, and sip on them slowly while others pound down mass produced beers like they are water.  Lagunitas hasn’t made a bad beer yet and the trend continues with this one.  The beer, poured from a tap, is a nice golden color with a thick meringue like head of foam that leaves great lacing and a nose of thick grapefruit hops and pine notes.  The beer’s initial taste starts with a medium strength leveled hop flavor and that level of hops just builds to a strong clean semi-sweet resin and grapefruit blend that bites the back tongue and leaves a memorable skunk on the aftertaste.  A very nice IPA, nothing really that blows me out of the water but it’s a great IPA to have with a meal thanks to it’s light 8.2% ABV.  Not bad, not bad at all and highly recommended.