Lagunitas and Regional Breweries Unveil Fresh Spring Releases This March

Lagunitas Brewing Company out of Petaluma, California is signaling the arrival of Sequoia, a new West Coast IPA that emerged as one of the more notable names in a cluster of spring beer releases reported in early March 2026.

The signal came through MyBeerBuzz, a beer-news aggregator that tracks new releases and brewery announcements across the country. Its March coverage, republished between March 6 and 8 across distribution partners including MSN, captured a broader wave of new activity from regional breweries alongside the Lagunitas announcement.

Sequoia is the detail worth paying attention to here. Lagunitas has built its reputation on bold, hop-forward beers, and a West Coast IPA named after one of California's most iconic natural landmarks fits squarely in that tradition. West Coast IPA as a style has seen serious resurgence over the past few years, with breweries leaning back into the dry, resinous, clear-bodied profile that defined the original West Coast movement before hazy IPAs took over tap handles everywhere. A release from Lagunitas in that space carries weight.

The timing matters too. March releases are strategic: breweries use early spring to get new beers into distributor pipelines before the heavy-traffic season hits. Getting a beer like Sequoia onto shelves and draft lists in March means it has a fighting chance of becoming a go-to warm-weather pour by the time May and June roll around.

For homebrewers paying attention to the style, a Lagunitas West Coast IPA is worth dissecting once it hits shelves. The style demands tight water chemistry, aggressive dry hopping with classic Pacific Northwest varieties like Centennial, Simcoe, or Cascade, and a clean fermentation that lets the hops do the work without the murk. If Sequoia lands anywhere near the hop-forward character Lagunitas is known for, it should offer a solid reference point for anyone dialing in their own West Coast recipe this spring.