Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

(RETIRED)

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	99
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Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Escondido, California USA

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Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
547	3.93/5.0	3.92/5.0	Special	10%	94.2	Snifter, Tulip

Commercial Description:
Stone 10th Anniversary IPA harkens back to our earlier Anniversary Ales, with abundant hopping at many stages of the brewing process. Appropriately, the aroma is over-the-top, with pronounced piney and resiny hop flavors combined with tropical fruit esters and more subtle notes of toasted malts and alcohol. Our Stone 10th Anniversary Ale weighs in at 10% alcohol by volume (perfect for a 10th anniversary beer), and has a little more color and malt character than our other IPAs. In addition to using the new Summit hop variety in the brewhouse to provide the powerful bitterness, we went back through our records and found some of our favorite hops over the years, and used them to flavor this brew, including Chinook, Crystal, and large doses of Simcoe in the dry-hop to provide a huge, complex, piney, fruity and floral hop character. This is a colossal beer, big in every sense: hoppy, malty, rich, and strong! Right up our alley.

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BeerandBlues2 (3203), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 29, 2007

Bottle purchased and consumed at Gunnison Brewery. Pours sparkling amber with a small, rocky, off-white head, lasting with fair lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, toasted grain), heavy hops (perfume, pine), average yeast (sweat, earth) with notes of apple, pear, and honey. Medium bodied, creamy texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness.

jsquire (2098), St. Marys, Ohio, USA

4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	8/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Oct 24, 2007

Orange colored beer with a creamy off white head. Big nose with equal parts alcohol, caramel and hop resin. Thick mouthfeel that almost got syrupy. Tons of caramel sweetness and just stacks of pine resin, candied grapefruit rind, apricot and spicey hops in the bottle. Really an enjoyable big IIPA.

YourDarkLord (1800), Urbana, Illinois, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Oct 18, 2007

Another treat from Stone. Hazy amber with red tints under a smal, off-white head. Intoxicating aroma of fresh citrus hops mingled with sweet caramel malt and a touch of pine. Rich and robust. The flavor was a noce blend of the hops and malt. Very enjoyable.

presario (2956), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 16, 2007

Bottle via trade. Fluffy white head. Very dark orange beer. Spicy earthy hop nose. Heavy start to the flavour but lightens up. Spicy hop and malt body. Has a cool undefinable quality and very present alcohol.

omhper (12171), Stockholm, Sweden

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	9/10	4/5	9/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 16, 2007

Bottled, thanks cquiroga! Cloudy reddish amber. Vast aroma of grapefruity hops. Solidly malty with predominant cookie malt character covered in an abundance o fsalty graepfruity hops. Lingering really bitter finish. Pretty straight forward beer, not the most complex in the world, but quality all the way through.

ante (2928), Stockholm, Sweden

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	5/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Oct 14, 2007

Bottled. Big thanks to Per! Pours out in a hazy reddish orange colour with a low, sticky white foam. Hoppy and citric aroma of grapefruit, bloodoranges with sweet resinous piney notes. Full, hoppy and bitter flavour pine-needles, grapefruit, lemon-zest and caramel. Long hoppy finish of grapefruit and wet grass with sweet undertones of caramel and bloodoranges. But the hops still dominates . Well-hiden alcohol. Great!

ajax4 (9), USA
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4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Sep 18, 2007

Dark orange/copper, luscious head without being too bubbly. Heavier bodied IIPA with a sweetness on the finish to round out the monster hops on the nose.

SoLan (1411), Orlando, Florida, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	8/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	15/20

Sep 17, 2007

Orange/copper and small, frothy white head. All hops with some lightly sweet malt in the background- citrus rind, citrus flesh, venomous resin, floral sweetness. Full/medium body, balanced carbonation, syrupy. Satisfies the hop fix.

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