Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company brews Lagunitas DayTime IPA. Lagunitas is a highly regarded craft brewer based in Petaluma, CA and is known for their variety of IPA beers. The Lagunitas taproom at the brewery in Petaluma is open to the public seven days a week.
Lagunitas Brewing DayTime IPA Beer
Several breweries, including Lagunitas, introduced “Session IPAs” as a way to get more beer drinkers to drink IPA beers during the day. Many drinkers found traditional IPAs with 6-7% ABV or more and up to 200 calories or more to be too heavy for day drinking.
Lagunitas describes DayTime IPA as “Where most beer styles are defined by flavor, Sessions are about the combo of drinkability & low-alcohol content (ABV). At only 98 Cals, 3 Carbs & 4% ABV, DayTime IPA represents everything we know about making hop-forward beer, expressed in a sotto voice. A sessionable session beer that doesn’t skimp on flavor.
DayTime IPA is a gentle canvas of malts and fluff-ifying oats splashed with a cannonball of hops—lots of Centennial and Citra hops. Like lupulin sunrays shining down on puffy little malt clouds!…Perfect for when there’s still work to do, or work to avoid.”
Lagunitas DayTime IPA is available in a 12 oz. can with 98 calories, 3g carbohydrates, 1g protein, 0g sugar and 0g fat. It has a 30 IBU. It has a “Very Good” rating on Beer Advocate.
Our Review of Lagunitas DayTime IPA
Lagunitas IPA is a great and iconic beer and one of the few IPAs I enjoy drinking. Lagunitas IPNA was the first non alcoholic beer that I tried about two years ago. It was awful and tasted like beer mixed with water. I have since tried about 50 non alcoholic beers. A few have been good but the majority have been mediocre to bad, and I have grown tired of them.
Recently a friend offered me a Lagunitas DayTime IPA and I was intrigued. While it is not a NA beer, its 4% ABV is significantly lower than IPAs in general. It is even lower than basic lagers, including light beers like Miller Lite and Michelob Ultra. Its calories and carbs are also about the same as those two beers.
Unlike Lagunitas IPNA, DayTime IPA was excellent. It tasted like a real IPA. I believe I could tell the difference in a blind taste test with the regular Lagunitas IPA (an assumption I will test at a later date), but it was excellent nonetheless. I can’t imagine drinking other light beers when DayTime IPA has basically the same nutrition facts and much more taste. It even has nutrition numbers similar to some of the NA beers I have tried.
For another recommendation, see our review of Racer5 IPA
For beer nutritional information of all beers we have reviewed see Beer Nutritional Information.
