“Hey Bruguru!” You ask, or more correctly, exclaim. OK, now you’re gonna ask. “Why you reviewing a beer you drank in February of 2012? The answer: because I just found my tasting notes. There I was looking for something on Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale, which I was sure I had had before, when I found these lost notes for Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Wild. So, I’m going to share them with you for the sake of posterity if nothing else.

From the six-pack carrier:

"Bring me Sumpin' Wild!" His voice rang out down the double helical hallway. He was summoning the object of his desire, that Phenolic-Off-Flavor producing POF gene. He was a handsome, albiet (SIC) pedestrian, heterozygous diploid strain and he longed for the wild side of things-the lights, the big city, the cloves, the subtle tropical fruit nuances...but he was an ordinary heterozygous diploid. "Bring me the POF!" he bellowed again down the helix holding forth his his fresh new bud in hopeful anticipation of the imminent protoplast fusion that would allow him to decarboxylate ferulate to the 4-vinyl guaiacol and qualify him for pitching and subsequent ATP defilement of the luscious Little Sumpin' wort. Hope springs eternal, but who among us is as lucky as all that?

Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Wild has an alcohol content of 8.7% with 72 IBUs. Lagunitas says it is a “cousin” to Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’.

Lagunitas Little Sumpin Wild pours to a dark golden color with a thick creamy head formation and a nose replete with fruity pineapple, funky yeast and grassy hops. The palate hits you with some chewy caramel malt at first followed by fruity pineapple, funky Belgian yeast notes and finally some grassy hops in the finish delivering a long, dry bitterness.

TTFN!

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