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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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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 
5473.93/5.03.92/5.0Special10%94.3Snifter, Tulip
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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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 TheEpeeist (1430), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/516/20
May 5, 2007  
22 oz bottle. Clear brown orange with a yellow-white head. Leaves some patches. Melon and mandarins with toffee behind. Concentrated caramel sweetness gives way to bitter greens and alcohol. Subtle carb; thinner body than tastes suggests. Finishes with banana and medicinal almond croissant.


 badlizard (2325), Berkeley, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/517/20
May 3, 2007  
Double dry hopped version on tap at Stone. Clear orange amber with long lasting thick foamy white head. Aroma of pine, raisin, fruit, malt, and alcohol as advertised. Robust full body palate with an overwhelming bitterness. The malt and alcohol tastes balance out the bitterness quite well and it finishes with bitter floral hops lingering long in the mouth - this last feature is seemingly a Stone trademark. Decent overall.


 riversideAK (2648), Shoreline, Washington, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
May 1, 2007    Updated: Feb 25, 2008
For some reason I really didnt like this one. I wanted to, and I tried like 5 times. I guess I was too excited and it did not live up to my own hype. Alot of tropical fruit in the nose and the flavor. I didnt get alot of the bitter hoppiness that I expected. Very heavy and full. It was even hard to finish for me. Re rate: On tap at Stone, aged one year. Mellowed out alcohol and became very well balanced and pretty enjoyable.


 SuzyGreenberg (1318), Seattle, Washington, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/517/20
Apr 28, 2007  
22 oz. bottle - pours orange with thick and lasting head; strong malt and fruit aromas with lots of lacing; heavy on the malts too, so a distinct and strong taste


 theisti (1640), Leawood, Kansas, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Apr 27, 2007    Updated: Jul 10, 2007
Bomber. Somewhat cloudy orange yellow pour with a big white head and quite a bit of settling. Really nice to look at it. Aroma is dry grass, sopping wet citrus and malt. The malt is the initial taste, rounds out to the citrus and a bit of alcohol in the finish. Great beer, too bad it was a one time deal. This is not as crisp / clean as Ruination, but it is certainly more complex.


 bager (2121), Copenhagen N, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/102/514/20
Apr 23, 2007  
Bottled. Almost clear pale amber coloured with a small head. Malty with notes of alcohol, hops, spices, hops and pine. A bit too sharp.


 kyzr (1119), Belgrade, Montana, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Apr 20, 2007  
Thanks to kramer17801 for this bottle! Oh my, what a nose. Candied orange with alcohol. Amber pour with huge frothy crown. Flavor is rather sweet, the hops are there, but malt is more powerful. Body is full, with a nice thick finish! Loved it!


 merlin48 (509), New Tazewell, Tennessee, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Apr 16, 2007  
Radiant orange body with a small offwhite head that splashes sticky lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet citrusy orange, tangerine, and mango. Full medium body is sticky and sweet in the mouth. Sweet and pulpy orange and tangerine rule the taste. Syrupy and sticky but enough balance to pull it off. Lovely.



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