Stone Ruination IPA

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Escondido, California USA

Pours a honey gold with a one finger off white head and cool lacing. The nose is full of grapefruit hop and only a small amount of caramel malt. Flavor is truly hop dominated with floral, pine, and grapefruit notes. Resin and biscuit. Some sweetness is evident but the hops so dominate the source of it is ill defined. Bitterness is evident but not overpowering. If there is a hop flavor it is here in spades. The brewers pull that off with some amazing smoothness in taste and feel. Hops is the name of this game and Stone plays it very well.

A massive DIPA but without the sickly sweetness that sometimes plagues the style. Extreme piney hop nose portends the Ruination that will assault your tastebuds. Very bitter with a long aggressive hop finish. Malt character is biscuity but does little to temper the tsunami of hops that follow. Pours a gorgeous light amber with THICK off-white head. Great heaps of sticky lacing. A very drinkable DIPA, Ruination hides its 7.7% content very well. Extreme, but well crafted as well.

Semi clear gold with a fluffy head. Aromas of citrius, flowers and a small bit of pine. Tastes of resinous hops and citrus oils, refreshing for the mouthfeel, and overall pound for pound the best double IPA in the world.

From bottle. Part of April Dayton Beertasting event. Pours dense orange with a small off white head. Aroma of citrus, hops. Serious hops. Long finish.

This IPA is like a kick in the face. Hops galore, bitterness abounds, it’s absolutely everything an IPA should be. Just make sure not to try and drink your yellow fizzy beer after tasting this. . . it’ll actually taste worse than before.

A decent IPA, nothing to outstanding, thought it was kind of average, but the bottle is sick.

The pour is a nice medium amber, with a decent white head. This is an extremely aggressively hopped IPA, and one any hop junkie will appreciate. The nose is strongly citrus and pine, however is is also balanced with touches of caramel malty tones. The flavor is plenty bitter with hops and balanced with a mild sweetness, but the resinous hops stay on the palate for a long while. Yet anther great Stone creation.

Wow. Ruination is exactly right. Hints of citrus and pine but its hard to taste much past the hoppiness. Dry and fizzy accross the palate. Overall not my favorite Double IPA but still good.