Stone 05.05.05 Vertical Epic Ale

Thanks to Santoslhalper. Pours a dark brown with a reddish hue. A light beige head that is thick and foamy. Aroma is a strong toffee, currant, molasses, and wet fallen leaves with a good helping of alcohol. The flavor is a dark fruit malt of candied cherries and maybe some pineapple. There is a roasted coffee background in there as well. The malt flavor is so full and sweet. I feel like there could be a little more body, but overall, the beer is excellent.

Cellared properly. Clear purple body with a thing beige head. Super sweet caramel aroma with figs, dates, prunes, plums, raisins, sugar, and bread. Mellow mellow taste. Very smooth with caramel, bread, vinous, dark fruit, molasses, honey and oak notes. Aging well, for sure..

22 oz. bottle courtesy of santoslhalper shared with Exec Board. Pours brown with khaki head, one finter. Good lacing. Some cherry hues. Fruit and chocolate, sweet caramel with apple cherry and grape. Taste is lots of caramel adn sweet fruit, some mild chocolate, grapes and cherry. Good bitterness with no real hop flavor. Nice alcohol flavor and warmth well into the after. This was a great beer. It was like a Belgian-y, slightly wheat-esque barley wine type thing. Tasty. Thanks so much for sharing this, Jon.

Bottle courtesy of santoslhalper, stored very well. Thanks, Jon! Awesome nose. Chocolate, candied prune, oak chips, alcohol, and mild Twizzler. Rich and luscious with very little bitterness from a hint of hops. Just incredible. Dark ruby-brown clear with light tan lacing head. Heavy oily body with silky carbonation and mild alcohol warming. Starts rich and just still a bit hot, with Twizzlers, plum and or prune, macerated raisins and brown sugar. Candi sugar and mild molasses. Oaky with just a hint of acidity. Really smooth and delicious.

22oz bottle. Poured a clear dark orange color with a light tan head. Aroma was of raisin and light brownie. I also noted a hint of brown sugar as it warmed up a bit. Dry and somewhat vinous. I tasted raisin and molasses, but there were also hints of cherry and chocolate and a splash of red wine. Strange combination of aromas and flavors, but decent.

pours a very darkcaramel brown with reddish brown hues at the edges. a silky creamy thin of off-white head tops it off.... aroma of caramel malt and dark dried fruits.... flavors provide an extension of the aforementioned qualities in the nose. after a few sips, the sweetness became a little cloying almost tasting medicinal. a really nice mouthfeel though with this one. carbonation was on the lighter side so it went down quite smoothly.

Deep mahogany color. Head quickly disappears. Licquorice, milk chocolate, candy sugar in the nose make me think this is very close to a dubble. The mouth carries through on the dubble theme, but I still get some bready character, which I don’t expect in this beer and it doesn’t mesh as well as previous years. Lingering milk chocolate, liquorice, warming finish.

Purplish-brown pour, lacy tan head. raison, chocolate, wood in the flavor. finishes dry with a hint of sweet. I enjoyed this much more than I would have guessed I would enjoy a sweet ale.