Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

Bottle from mashmaster and bigern! Thanks guys! A highly anticipated brew that did not let me down. Amber in color, decent head. Aroma is lots of citrus and piney hops. Flavor is a strong balance of hops and malt. Very hoppy and malty at the same time... No trace of the ten percent alcohol. Low carbonation, above average texture that also has a stickyness to it. Overall a solid beer! Well worth seeking out.

Pours a nice amber color with an eggshell colored head. Head has great retention and leaves spotty lacing as well. Smell has a rich scent of pine and grapefruit, leaning more towards the pine-like and resiny aromas. I also get a hint of malt, but it’s hidden beneath the bouquet of hops. Taste starts out grapefuity and leads into more pine, but I get more grapefruit and citrus in the taste than in the nose. Taste is full of hops but definately has a strong malt backbone to it with some alcohol warmth in the finish. Carbonation is at about medium levels and the body feels rich and full. Drinkability is good; I could drink plenty of this and wish I had more of it. In comparison to a strict definition of IIPA, this leads more towards the barley wine side being as how a barley wine tends to have more body and a IIPA would be expected to have a more dry finish. Either way I thought this was an excellent beer!

Ruby red and orange color with small head. Big lovely orange and hop aroma. Very strong flavor...bold hops and strength, some caramel, white pepper, clove, bitter fruit rind, alcohol, hop resins, grapefruit hops. From a growler but I’ve had it many times on tap and in the bottle.

Aroma of sweet fruit and light citrus notes. Appears an orange-light brown with a head that maintains nice lacing well into the beer. Immediate citrus taste, sweet medium-thickness in the body and only a small bit of bitter-hop taste at the end. Very nice brew.

We had this on draft at Stone 6/27/08 - aged 2 years. We were only allowed a sample size glass, and were not permitted to get pints with our meals. The small bit we were allowed to have was amazing! The combination of flavors combined with the aging was perfect.

Full malt profile. You can see what hop profile used to exist. This is an awesome IIPA. Malt profile + bittering hops work for this one. It’s balanced even into its "later years" - deserves the lifetime achievement award!

Bottle courtesy of wetherel, pours attractive dark copper with a finger thick cream colored head. The flavor and nose are the same, with just a hint of hops because of the age, and some nice malt influence. Very nice beer.

Growler: Deep orange (marmelade) in color that poured a nice thick head of fine bubbles. There were aromas of marmelade, caramel, piney hops and light spice (cardamon?). In the mouth it is concentrated with good weight and dryness from the hops. There are still a bunch of hops that are balanced by malt in the midpalate but show themselves off in the dry finish.