 xav33 (313), Midland, MI, Michigan, USA
Jul 13, 2007
Stone 07.07.07 Vertical Epic Ale
22oz bomber
Moderate pour in a chalice.
Recent brewing, enjoyed 07/07
Poured a clear amber brown with a moderate fizzy mostly diminishing white head.
Smelt of strong tutti frutti with moderate oranges, sweet cake, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, anise. Smells like a very sweet shiny sweet bread. Lots of fun spices happening here!
Taste was upfront strong sweet bread and oranges and moderate bitter spices and caramel bread followed by more of the same, but with an accent on the bitter kick of spices.
Palate was medium bodied, creamy and velvety, softly carbonated, lightly astringent and moderately alcoholic.
Overall, this is a great beer to smell. Stone is having fun with this beer and it shows. A little rough looking and rough on the palate though. Not enough thick fluffy rocky belgian head and too viscous on the palate. Very interesting hybrid nonetheless!
skoisirius (450), Seattle, Washington, USA
Aug 19, 2008 22 oz bottle tasted sometime around the end of July 2007. I rememberjust not being too WOWed by this one. No where in there did I find saisonish type flavors hitting my tongue. Now that I’ve recently had the 888...it almost seems like the 777 was practice for this years. Have not had aged yet.
thickfreakness (52), Austin, Texas, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Tasted on 5/1/08. Poured this one into a Unibroue tulip. It has a nice white head and the color is what I would imagine from a wit/trippel hybrid. The smell is expected from a wit with a little bit of punch. I realize this is 10 months old already but I just don’t really like this taste. I think I’m tasting some ginger and it just really isn’t pleasant to me. I also taste clove and spicy belgian yeast but the ginger taste is just ruining this for me. Overall this is my least favorite of all the Stone beers I have had.
biznizness (687), Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Bottle from City Beer in San Francisco. I’ll be honest, this wasn’t all that good. Kind of a belgian blonde that just wasn’t tight enough. Ah well, can’t win ’em all. And, I had to leave the very cool bottle in San Fran because it wouldn’t fit in our bags.
brokephibroke (34), , Colorado, USA
Aug 15, 2008 Pours straw gold with a thick, diminishing rootbeer like head. Ginger, citrus yeasty bubblegum like aroma. Taste is not so good - bitter a bit, flowery a bit with ginger a bit. Palate is unremarkable, Not a good effort from one of my favorite brewers....
kyzr (909), Bozeman, Montana, USA
Aug 14, 2008 Nice bright gold pour with smaller white head. Bready and yeasty sweet nose. Flavor is much the same, really sweet almost like candy. The alcohol is high, but not really noticed, can really sneak up on you.
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