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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

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5473.93/5.03.92/5.0Special10%94.2Snifter, Tulip
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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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 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!


 rybowen (105), Los Angeles 90039, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Oct 9, 2006  
Nice color, beautiful tawny amber. Big, sweet beer with plenty of alcohol. In fact, alcohol and boozy aftertaste is the dominant non-hop flavor. Just the way I like it. Bitter, hoppy flavor with resiny citrusy notes and good aroma. Excellent, another home run for Stone. Don’t drink more than one, I’m warning you...


 bhensonb (4241), Woodland, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 9, 2006  
Floral, pine and citrus in the aroma. Orangy amber color. Very little head, but lots of tiny bubbles. Seems to start with grapefruit, then some malty sweetness, then on to pineness. That evergreen aroma may be a little more cedar than pine. Certainly smells well. The high alcohol tends to dominate the finish. Really excellent.


 aspidites (1274), manteca, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/511/20
Oct 9, 2006  
Sugar, Sugar and more sugar. A beer that does not live up to the Stone or IPA monikers. A one note wonder of a beer, see above sugar comment. Hot alcohol and overly sweet palate bordering on cloying. Bittering hops in abundance with very littly nose or flavor from late addition hopping. A very lacluster and mundane effort from a typically very good brewery.


 hiphops (280), caldwell, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 9, 2006  
looks like everyother imp ipa. highly floral and spicy bouquet. with a hint of grapefruit and sexy chick b.o. the kind that makes your john thomas pop up and say hey whats going on over here???? the flavor is aight. very floral with a high alchol finish not really bitter just lingering alcohol.


 loweredsixth (942), Fresno, California, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
Oct 8, 2006  
Easily one of the best strong IPA’s I’ve ever had. I really think this thing is well balanced. There are massive citrusy tones in the aroma and flavor...grapefruit, orange, and lemon. There is not enough sweetness (thankfully so) to make this a barleywine, and the alcohol is barely noticeable. I am happy with this because I don’t think it’s "over the top." To me, this is an improvement over their regular IPA, and maybe even Ruination.


 waolsen (1222), Littleton, Colorado, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/518/20
Oct 8, 2006  
bottle. copper pour with creamy head. I can smell the hops from a foot away. nice maltiness and powerful citrus round out the nose. Full bodied. great caramel malts with big hops and citrus bitter bite. carbonation is lively. caramel and sugars linger in the aftertaste. Great brew to celebrate their 10th. Congrats and thank you.


 BBB63 (4228), La Porte, Indiana, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/103/512/20
Oct 7, 2006  
Bottle and served in my GI IPA tulip: Pours a sunset orange topped by a nice frothy off-white head and excellent lacing. The nose displays juicy fruit and floral hops, caramelized malt, sugar, clove and pepper, a strange smoky vapour about and a heavy earthy yeast ester. The taste starts with a smack down of bitterness but is followed up quickly with a heavy handed dose of sweet malt and a crunching alcohol presence. This beer is more akin to a young barleywine than a IIPA due to the large amount of sugars left behind. The finish is peppery and astringent with some candy stickiness. The mouth feel is rough and raw, aggressive and brash. Will be interesting to see how this ages out.



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