Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

Date: 09/02/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

amber with a slight haze, whispy white head, sweet pine aroma, lots of sticky pine flavor, nice balancing lasting bitterness
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Date: 10/21/2006
Mode: bottle
Score: iii to ii+

clear red, pours with a nice cream head that quietly settles down, traces of drippy lace, picking up sweet citrus along with the pine aroma, upon warming it pick up lots of hot alcohol, best cold
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Date: 12/01/2006
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Words: double dry hopped version from the Stone Bistro

thick creamy head and tons of lace, the hop flavor is very smooth and balanced from beginning to end,
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Date: 09/08/2007
Mode: bottle
Words: cellar party

no alcohol showing up, otherwise has not changed after a year of cold storage,
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Date: 02/10/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 3.3 to 3.5

picking up some really nice fruityness in the aroma and flavor, still sweet crystal and lots of hops, cold storage works,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

The Dan JOurnal #104. Tasted 8/14/07. 22oz bomber. Filtered with an amber hue. Spiraling off-white head. Fruity citrus cinnamon sugar aromas. Mild burn and medium effervescence. Caramle and grassy flavors. Toasty and sticky. Spicy and syrupy.

Draft at brewery, plus growler fill after. This one is clear and amber with small head. Aroma is hoppy, with grapefruit, medicine, pine. Flavors are malty with fairly high bitterness and fair amount of alcohol. Lingering sweetness in the finish but not outdone by the bitterness and resinous hops that linger and stick to the tongue. I had thought I’d rated this multiple times until I was checking some notes. This was more barley wine than IPA but good none the less.

Golden-amber in colour, lingering thin beige head, light lacing. The aroma is insanely f’n hoppy, lots of pine, cedar and spruce, the sweet caramel malts try to balance out the hops. The flavour is again ridiculously hoppy, very sweet, lots of oranges and pine, creamy, some caramel malts, light alcohol. Very bitter hoppy mouthfeel, medium/large body, high carbonation. Finishes very long, very hoppy, some alcohol warmth. This has more balance than I was expecting but its still boarderline too much.

650ml bottle obtained in a trade with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=37058 target=blank>JCB, thanks Jason.
Opened on April 21, 2007.

Bottle via Weeheavy. Copper color. Smell of hops, brown sugar, malt, grapefruit, pine, flowers and caramel. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, malt, hops, alcohol, honey. grapefruit and burnt toast. Not that hoppy but extreamly sweet. A ton of caramel and brown sugar notes.

Burnt orange color, a bit cloudy. Pineapple, mango, and other citrus in the nose. Big floral hop characteristics and sweet cane sugar as well. Hops are front and center on this one but not overdone. A bit sweet, slightly tart and very well balanced. Would love to have again.

Slightly hazed copper color with a modest aged paper colored head. Grapefruit tossed with brown sugar and lightly glazed. HInts of pine and resin, but way too much sweet nose coating sugar to help. I’m finding it hard to take the first sip, thinking I may go in diabetic shock. Malty flavors with tons of over-ripe fruit parading about. Apricots, plums, prunes, dark candi and raisins are present in the start and fade slightly to alcohol and a light toasted malt flavor. Complex as it may be, too overpowering to enjoy in a full sip. Green hops burps bring a return of the burn in the finish and linger. Pepper and alcohol bite in the finish. Linger, while still a slight burn on the tongue, has only a modicum of intensity. I’m left waiting for more, but it all seems to strike hard in the front and middle and leave little to carry anything beyond. Young, perhaps. Perhaps just a bit too unbalance for my taste. I’m likely just not worthy.

Poured amber with creamy off white head. Strong aroma of hops, citrus, and a little pine. Flavor was way off from the aroma. No hops present in the taste. Extremely malty and full of alcohol.