Lagunitas is a difficult brewery to pin down. As they often brag, their beers defy style categories and their approach to brewing appears to be whatever strikes their fancy.
The “Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale,” however, was brewed in honor of the moment authorities actually DID pin them down.
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So many home brewing experiments go sour quickly and without design. But one of the most difficult beers I’ve made was when I intentionally tried to infect a batch with funk.
It killed me to do it, but there was no way I could stomach the rest of the beer, so I poured it down the toilet.
What happens when you create a strong, rich Belgian dark ale and then let yeast, bacteria, oak and time take over? You get the FV13.
The Doppelbock that I watched Tony Lubold brew back in February has been on tap for several weeks, now, and I’d been eager to try it. The style is my preferred beer for early spring.
Tony had used some nontraditional techniques to speed along the process and I wanted to see what resulted.