 hopscotch (5440), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Sep 19, 2006 Updated: May 18, 2007Bottle... This beer rocks!... Clear, amber ale with orange highlights and a small, creamy, off-white head. Excellent retention. Tropical fruit, piney nose with lots of biting alcohol. Well-balanced flavor with sticky pineapple, citrus fruit and caramel… alcohol, citric acid and hop bitterness provide balance. Full-bodied and creamy/sticky with soft carbonation. Lengthy, bittersweet, tongue-tingling finish. World class brew! Thanks to growler for the bottle!
scraff (1921), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sep 19, 2006 Draft - Deep coppery amber, creamy off white head. Intense fresh hop nose full of pine, spruce, earth and citrus, with an underlying rich brown sugar tone. Similar in flavor with ultra hoppy notes, touches of booze, brown sugar and caramel. Full bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Might be the best IPA they’ve done yet. Freakin rocks...
brentfeesh (1030), Gadsden, Alabama, USA
Sep 18, 2006 22 oz bottle. Pours clear and copper-amber in color. Light off white head. Very nice sticky hop and malt aroma. Pine, citrus, orange, alcohol. Big pine hops along with strong creamy, sherry, caramel, citrusy malt flavors. Some alcohol warmth is noticeable. Sweet, and thought the hops try to beat that sweetness into some kind of submission the sweetness is too powerful to be cut back. Hop profile includes pine, citrus, and orange and tropical fruit. Creamy mouth feel, sticky, with nice carbonation. A bit thick but I think is going to age like a champ! I bet my score improves with time.
OldRaspy (292), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Sep 18, 2006 Poured from a 22oz bottle amber in color with a beige head. Aroma was all citrus hops. Flavor had a bito malt up front followed by some caramel sweetness then smack you in the face with hops.
snowden719 (130), USA
Sep 18, 2006 Pours cloudy orange with a thin white head. Aroma is pretty big, citric, some pine hops, caramel in the maltiness, tropical fruits. Flavor is caramel maltiness, overly hoppy with some tropical fruits. Flavor bends a bit too far toward the hop characteristics and neglects the malt. Finish is dominated by the hops but not particularly long. Really bitter, I think probably so bitter that it masks a lot of the flavor in the finish.
jblendy (518), Midland Park, New Jersey, USA
Sep 17, 2006 Pours light reddish golden/amber with abundant tan/amber head. Powerful aroma of sweet citrus hops, pine, and some malt characteristics. Flavor is intense citrus/floral hops, very piney, nice hint of the alcohol, and nice smoothing malts, very balanced. Full bodied palate, warming, and bitter with a hint of sweetness. Fairly unique IPA compared to others, but similar to other Stone IPA’s. That’s a good thing though.
sistinas (60), Tempe, Arizona, USA
Sep 16, 2006 22 bomber. Pours a reddish-amber color with a medium sized head. Hoppy hoppy hoppy with notes of pine and a little citrus. Taste - well, hoppy hoppy hoppy. Holy hops. There is a slight sweet malt backbone that I wish was a bit stronger to offset the hoppiness. The texture is actually really nice though - creamy and full with the exact right amount of carbonation. There’s a definite alcohol aftertaste that I’m not into though. Solid brew, though not quite as amazing as my friends told me it would be.
DYCSoccer17 (2187), Davis, California, USA
Sep 16, 2006 Updated: Oct 30, 200622 ounce bomber purchased at Pole Line Nugget in Davis, CA. Extremely resiny piney hop aroma with a bit of citrus grapefruitiness. Much more pine than grapefruit, though. A touch of hemp. Smells like a forrest. Not much in the way of malts, sweetness, or booze, though. Mildly hazy orange/copper color with a nice, long lasting off-yellowish head and nice lacing. Piney, piney, piney hoppiness present. Some light hempiness is also present in the background. Ethanol is detected in the middle, but the hops distract you quickly from the burn. A bit of sweetness is present in the middle, and the malts are a bit underdone in this one. A very hoppy IPA, that is better than the Ruination, but still is a bit too hot. I like this, but I think it is severely overrated. 8/5/7/3/15/3.8
Beer #1 at Grant’s Blind IIPA tasting. Single blind tasting. Floral, pineapple, piney, ethanolic aroma. Transparent coppery color with a small, light, off-white head that is pretty listless. Resiny, dry, bitter hoppiness to start. Light, light malts in the middle. Finishes a bit dry, with plenty of ethanol. Booziniess is definitely there, but not overbearing. Rather drinkable. 6/3/6/4/13/3.2
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