Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Escondido, California USA

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!

Gigungis 3L bottle. Pours a orange-amber color, slightly hazy, large off white thick head. Aroma is huge floral, grapefruit, piney, orange. Flavor is hops, fruit, peach, mango, pine. Palate is medium, some alcohol warmth, medium carbonation, bitter finish. Awesome stuff.

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.

really interesting IPA. Having with my friend Paul B. and we both note the differences between what we’re drinking and the commercilal description. Hardly any piney qualities. Poured with some head and lace. Color is dark & hazy amber with cherry highlights. Aroma is a little grapefruity, some malty, rotten fruit, caramel, and grain. Wrap around the tongue body. Silky. Sweet finish. Not a session beer though. This is about 3 years old. Killler.

In a word, perfection: Dark amber, copper color. Smells great. This is NOT your typical Stone brew. In fact, this is actually a rare breed for a San Diego brew. Maltier & very hoppy, but a more mellow hop flavor. The mouthfeel and taste remind me of a hopped up 90 minute IPA. Somewhat akin to Southern Tier UnEarthly. First sip is sweet and thick, but somehow, the beer quickly mellows and thins on the tounge, and ends with a wallop from what I assume is simcoe hop. I think this is a beer that is going to be loved by the masses. It’s hoppy enough to make us West coast people happy, yet it’s balanced and not overbearing. A true winner.

3 Qt. 5.4 fl oz bottle. Oh yeah! This one does it for me. All the best in a DIPA. I thought I was going to be drinking an IPA (that’s what the bottle says), but one whiff erased that idea. Hops up the ass. Malts were caramely, hops smelled of herbs, pine and grapefruit, and the yeast of leather. Dates, brown sugar and smoke were in the background. Head was rocky, white, mostly lasting with excellent lacing. Color was a hazy tan/orange. Flavor started moderately sweet and acidic and finished acidic, bitter and a touch acetic. Palate was medium, oily/creamy and the carbonation was soft. It finishes just a touch astringent. Maybe because I was on a beach in southern Long Island and it was a perfect day with great food, but this was undoubtably the best beer I’ve ever tasted. I’m still picking this stuff out of my teeth.

A ruby-brown body with a thin white head that diminishes very quickly. Pineapple, maple, apple, massive hops and light malts dominate the aroma. Great taste and frankly huge hoppy accents, sweet fruits with some nice malts to balance the initial taste. Ending is pure hops, very little of anything else survives. Hop Heads, this is the beer for you... just make sure to save a case for me. *evil grin*

Bomber. Poured slightly hazy orange, with an off-white head which diminished quickly but left striped lacing when the glass was tipped. Tantalizing initial aroma of tropical fruit (pineapple, passion, etc.) with grapefruit and apricot as well. First sip was a sharp hop bomb, very biting and very resiny, with grapefruit rind, pith even, and pine needles, leaving an itintial bitter and astringent finish with a teeth-clinging bitter pine/balsam oil aftertaste which, along with the alcohol, created a medicinal feel, almost...if I dare say... like Buckley’s (!) However, after some time, the beer seemed to mellow out, and the flavor and palate captured more of the quality hopiness and its attendant grapefruit/gum qualities. Overall, while I absolutely love hops (I’m lighting a candle for those destroyed in the Yakima warehouse) and consider Stone one of the masters of the hop, I didn’t feel that the tremendous hop profile here melded well with the overall product the whole way through.