Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale:
Hello one and all and welcome back to the beer website that not only give you a review, but an education as well.  Sometimes.  Maybe.  Anyway, we once again look at that great little California brewery: Lagunitas and their take on the American Strong Ale.  The beer, Undercover Investigation Shut-down, is long on both flavor and taste; named for an undercover operation operated by the California ABC which showed that Lagunitas guilty of having a “disorderly house” and shut them down for 20 days.  Well they did the time and as a way to remember their “sins” they made this awesome beer.  Poured from a tap the beer arrives a nice cloudy red amber with a thin lacing of foam that leaves good lacing and a nose of heavy malts and a nice hop nose that rolls in and out.  The beer’s taste is fairly uniform with a good balanced hop and malt notes that carry a citrus and semi-sweet flavor on the front end and mid tongue while the back end and aftertaste replace that sweetness with a thick resin flavor.  Again, another great beer from Lagunitas and you have to admire these guys for not only rebounding from their temporary shut down but also making a strong beer to make it memorable.  Well done, well done indeed.