Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

Bottle. A medium to dark golden color with a laced foamy white head. A chocolate hop aroma that yields to a delightful fruitiness. Nicely balanced between bitter and sweet, with a caramel and grapefruit flavors.

22 oz bottle into a Snifter glass, thank to T-Bot for finding the last bottle the store had last week and bringing it home with him from CA!! Also on tap at Uber and Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle. This beauty pours a very hazy golden orange red with hints of a light brown. A very white head sits atop with great retention. A HUGE citrusy hop crossed with pineapple aroma blasts your nostrils along with almost what seems to be some candied sugar. The flavor starts on a very citrus hop note slowly melding with piney hop notes. A candy sugar malt flavor is present throughout the body which then moves into a highly grapefruity and bittered hop note in the finish. A very resiny feel on the palate and into the finish this one has. Almost a bit of a spice note on the end as well. Fairly full and thick on the palate. Can’t really taste the 10% ABV that much until the brew hits the throat. Hop flavors are definitely thrown in your face from all directions! I love this IIPA!!!

Bottle. When I first tried this on draft at the Falling Rock, I thought it was an overly sweet sticky mess train wreck of a beer. My opinion has definitely changed. Body-medium orange/brown body with a medium ring of bubbles and not much else. Nose-big sweet PNW hop nose that is all citric and not too sweet. Taste-sharp clean hops, medium to high sweetness, just enough sweetness to call it too sweet, spiky hops, sweet malts, grapefruit, light lemon zest, citrus and sweet dominate. Nose has a kind of sewage note to it. Not nearly ads bad as I remember, but still just a little too sweet to be world class.

I’ve been waiting a long time to try this thank you Diry Martini (via trade)! This is how an IIPA should be. The pour was a beautiful orange with a slight head that laced all the way down. The aroma was all grassy hops. The taste was very complicated. Grassy hops in the beginning, sweet malt midway and a dry bitter hoppy finish. The mouthfeel wasn’t thick and syrupy like some and made this a force to be reckoned with in the IIPA world. You go, Gargoyle!

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle with a blurb on the back of bottle, sample at a cool temperature in a Stone snifter glass. Poured a cloudy orangey, reddish amber copper with a fluffy, foamy, bubbly topped off-white head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing, small of laced sticking. Hoppy aromas of oranges, grapefruit rind, mint, pine resins, herbal and leafy floral, a background of sweet grainy malts and spicy alcohol. Good steady medium carbonation and a crisp, dry, hop slick, velvety smooth light-medium bodied mouthfeel. Delicious tasting IPA, the hops dominate the taste, orange and grapefruit rind, traces of mint, earthy, oily, herbal, tobacco leafy, fruity, in the back are a grainy maltiness, spicy, peppery alcohol, the alcohol is warming in the palate, and a dry hoppy, earthy, grapefruity, malty finish. Definitely a sipper, but dangerously quaffable, an excellent all-around DIPA.

I’d say abundantly hoppy is right on the mark. A sweet hop crisp nose that is opened after the deep red ruby gold pouy by an in your total mouth hop sweet body. Thanks to Slob for the bomber. The simcoe is balanced out by the other hops and brings this beer out of the depths and all over you like a shag rug from the 70’s. (insert Homer-like "Woo-Hoo here") Yes yes Oh yes!

22oz, from memory i had it right after release. one of the best looking bottles i’ve seen. pours a golden orange with a white head. nose of clearly a hop bomb but it’s raw and unpleasant, citrus, orange, grassy, and grapefruit. flavor has some toasted notes of carmel with hop flavors of grapefruit, orange, and mango. malt and hops taste raw and grassy, and perhaps need some time to develop. too much alcohol in the finish as well. didn’t find this very enjoyable.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy amber color with a small head and nice lacing. Lots of hops in the aroma, with floral and citrus notes. Oliy palate, with a long-lasting bitter finish. Nicely balanced, despite the huge amount of hop flavor. Awesome tasting brew!