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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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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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mattcoats (40), Norman, Oklahoma, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/516/20
Mar 23, 2007  
Gorgeous head and lacing, as well as a strong citrus and floral aroma. Hits ya right in the mouth!


 wunderbier (1264), Tampere, Finland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/513/20
Mar 21, 2007  
Pours a peachy-amber hue, lightly hazy, with a tight and creamy white head. Pungent aroma of spruce and grapefruit at first, along with a surprisingly strong Danish wedding cookie element. Notes of light honey and apricots reinforce the malt and hops. There’s also a slightly spicy, maybe musky, feel to the aroma...like cumin, I think. Very sweet initially with bright acidity and it stays fairly sweet throughout. The bitterness is there, but it’s not as powerful as I was expecting. The taste is somewhat simple in comparison the the aroma, spruce and caramel seemingly dominate the affair. Slick and creamy body with lively pinpoint carbonation. It’s lacking the oomph of it’s brethren Ruination, is bulkier than many other more svelte DIPAs, and doesn’t quite reach the complexity of similar weight American strong ales. So there you have it.


 505 (271), Echo Park, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/516/20
Mar 20, 2007  
I rocked a three liter bottle of this earlier with my housemates, and it was awesome. Rating from a 22 now. Lots of citrus in the aroma, with a touch of a pleasent flowery sweetness. Pours amberish, with a small off-white head. Flavor is lots of pine, some citrus, and some caramel flavors. Nice warming alcohol finish. I love all of the Stone IPA’s I’ve had. Nice beer.


 robinvboyer (1419), Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/56/103/517/20
Mar 17, 2007    Updated: Mar 18, 2007
wow, this was strong. The aroma is amazing. A citrus kick to the face, and some nice sweetness to it. OUTSTADING. BUT, the flavour is all pine, the citrus seems to drop off quite a bit, all i got was pine and booze. It got a little better as ir warmed up, and some sweetness came through. a Very nice DIPA, but a little too piney for my taste


 hopson (591), Williamsville, New York, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
Mar 17, 2007  
Wow! This beer rocks the house, seriously. White super lacy head, orangey amber color, terrific flavor, and big time warmth...Get this if you can.


 StewardofGondor (1934), Washington Heights - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/510/105/518/20
Mar 7, 2007  
Translucent and honey copper in color with frozen cellophane for the head. Sweet, sugary marigolds get drenched with honey, along with papaya and petunias, to intertwine in the nose. Pine resin glaze goes over roots of grass stains waiting to ripen. Spruce juice and sweet, biscuity, golden dates waft rhythmically to seal the deal. Thick fluid settles into the mouth with a remarkable orange-vanilla-crème graham toffee composure, eliciting a growing cottony bitterness post-sip. Orange dream custard gets sprinkled with papaya enzyme, crumbled on top for building bitterness momentum in its wake. Soothing toffee melts with caramel drizzles over the maple orange candi shell. Supple carbonation lets the orange marmalade marigolds pipe the rhythm via candi-esque flavor hops, generating backdrop bitterness while they’re at it. Thick fluid keeps a candi-crusted clementine character and a bitter peach heart, bearing down through the finish as it was at the start. Thanks much for the bomber tpkenned!


 rmussman (905), California, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Feb 28, 2007  
Aroma is very sweet, with a hint of berries and apricots. Appearance is wonderful. Dark brown and orange combine to make a nice hue. Head is abundant but settles quickly. Mouthfeel is smooth with a nice sweet apricot/fruity taste. Flavor is excellent, full of hops and has a lingering pleasent taste. An excellent brew.


 Marsiblursi (1631), Göteborg, Sweden
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 27, 2007  
(Bottle, thanks Pelle) Pours light hazy amber red. Fruity, perfumy, light peppery hop aroma with grapefruit, some pine and floral notes. Undertones of caramel, nuts and dried fruits. Very fresh and clean nose. Light fruity and light alcoholy flavour with grapefruit, caramel and hints of toffee. Medium rasiny and medium sweet. Round and smooth mouthfeel. The afterbitterness is lightly acid-ish and citrusy. Clean and dry. Full body.



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