Two promising drafts from Petaluma, Calif.’s Lagunitas Brewing Co. are scheduled to join the lineup at International Tap House next week: an India pale ale and Brown Shugga – an ale made with brown sugar, featuring 9.8 percent alcohol by volume. Although Lagunitas appears to take brewing quite seriously, its Web site opens hilariously: “From our earliest days of striving to make consistently good beer, and instead making beer that ranged from vile, to barely drinkable, to wonderful, to elegant, to questionable-at-best …” Color us intrigued. Perhaps if the IPA and Brown Shugga do well, Chesterfield’s suds supercenter will also add the impressive-sounding Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout.
This article appears in Dec 1-31, 2009.