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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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 bitbucket (2026), Kirkland, Washington, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Oct 14, 2006  
Draft at Duck Island. Pours a clear bright copper with a creamy white head. Citrus and fruit nose: grapefruit, oranges, peaches with a little floral influence. Full, creamy sweet body with moderate carbonation. The taste is sweet grapefruit over pineapple with oranges, mangoes and the occasional tangerine in the mix. Mildly bitter grapefruit finish with the occasional sprig of pine and a flower or two. This stuff is amazing! A hugely hoppy West Coast DIPA with hoppy complexity, but without the smack you upside the head bitterness.


 bu11zeye (5430), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 13, 2006  
(Bottle) Pours a deep amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of fresh citrus (orange, pink grapefruit, lemon). Flavor of bready malt, caramel, and hops. Fairly average compared to other IIPAs.


 whaleman (2171), North Wales, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 13, 2006  
KSBF 2006. Rich golden body with a filmy, off-white head. Smells like a musty bag of earthy hop pellets. Bouquet melds with sweet, sugary malt. Flavor suggests pale malt syrup and is firm, big, and boozy, but a bit muddled overall. Decent, but doesn’t captivate me.


 Snojerk321 (1917), San Diego, California, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Oct 13, 2006  
This is one of the best double India Pale Ales I’ve ever had. Aroma of pine, citrus fruits and hops.....of course. Flavor is a perfect balance between malts and hops. I wish they would not limit this to a specialty brew....;(


 madcow75 (425), Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 12, 2006  
Bottle. Pours clear copper with a thick light tan head. Good head retention. Big citrus and pine in the nose. This is bitter, very highly hopped. More citrus and pine, some toasted malt comes in but the hops dominate. Some alcohol sting. If you don’t like hops, this isn’t for you, luckily, I do.


 antzman (313), Clarksville, Indiana, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 12, 2006  
Bottle. Excellent hoppy aroma.... citrus, pine. It pours a medium amber with a thick off white head. Great lacing on the glass. The initial taste is very bitter, but the malts roll in and balance things out. Not as bitter as Ruination, but much more so than the regular IPA. Great use of the hops and malts.


 WISEGUY572 (1244), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Oct 11, 2006    Updated: Aug 5, 2007
OK, to start, IPA is my favorite style, and this is a great example of an American IPA. If you don’t like American hops and indeed if you don’t like beers hopped to exces you won’t care for this. Huge pine nose with citrus. Great appearance ... clear copper with a small off white head and fantastic lacing that promises wonderful body, which the beer also delivers. Great balance of sweet malt and citrus and pine. Love it. A bit more alcohol than I like to find in a big bottle, but I did not know until the beer knocked me out. // Even nicer after 10 months. Same great nose, appearance, mouth. Flavor is even hoppier, even maltier, even better balanced. Love it.


 smoosh (523), New Albany, Indiana, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 10, 2006  
Bottle - HUGE piney nose with just a touch of citrus. A beautiful orange/amber body with a big beige head. Mouth puckeringly bitter. The bitterness lingers on the tongue forever ... almost. What a terrific beer - right in my sweet spot. Just huge and wonderful. Way to go Stone!



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