Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine

I decided for today's review that I was gonna try the strongest beer at the store. That ended up being another Lagunitas. It beat out a beer that I intend on trying here in the next couple weeks by only 0.6%. It comes in at 10.6%. That's more than double what a Bud Light is. Here is what it looks like...

I'm no photographer so here is a better look at the label.



Price: $6.00 22oz bottle
ABV: 10.6%
IBU: 69

This was not what I was hoping. It is a limited run that Lagunitas does at the beginning of every year and apparently is a highly anticipated beer by the hoity-toity beer types. I am not one of those. It looked really good when poured but when I smelled it I knew something was off.

It looks good in the glass and has a thick caramel colored head. The first thing I noticed when I took a drink is that it's oddly thick tasting. Then the 10.6% ABV comes into play immediately. There isn't much of a 'beer' taste to this. It tastes like alcohol and some sort of sweetener. They were correct in naming this Gnarly, it is a very accurate description. I drank the entire bottle, against my better judgement and got a pretty decent buzz off of it but I don't know if it's worth getting a  buzz off a 6$ bottle of beer if I have to put up with that taste. I did some research on it this morning and apparently it's an A- beer on most sites and it's supposed to be more of a sipping beer. I don't know bout you but if I wanted to sip an alcoholic beverage I would have started drinking wine. I really do like Lagunitas, the people I've spoke to at their brewery are very friendly and helpful. I have one more of their beers in my fridge that I plan on drinking and reviewing this weekend hopefully it'll be better then the last two.
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