Stone 06.06.06 Vertical Epic Ale

Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Escondido, California USA

Pour dark brown with fluffy white head that slowly dissipates to a fine film, surprisingly there is a small amount of lacing. Yeasty, chocolate, and funky aroma. Creamy mouth-feel with hints of coffee & dried fruit , cedar, and spice. Dry finish with flavors of hops. chocolate, and malts. Alcohol was well masked and this dubbel was not over-spiced.

Poured from a 22 oz. bottle. Sienna brown and ruby touched pour; murky. Doughy chocolate, honey and earthy maple in the nose. Reserved, and sophisticated. Damp red fruit, banana and cotton flavor with an aged quality of peat and cardboard; far from stunning and certainly in the retirement of old age. Weakly constructed in the mouth, without much body or strength remaining. Berries and husky, stale malt in a lingering and drying finish. In the coffin, but kicking out its last bit of character.

Thanks to Nuffield for sharing. Solid dark brown color. Spicy nose. Much better than the other VEs I’ve tried. Very solid malty body, with not much spice in the body but a spicy finish.

Very nice amber/dark brown pour. light head, such a fruity flavor, with some roastedness, slightly sweet, some stickiness on the lips, but mellow, wow, wish I kept more of these! Alcohol unnoticeable. So easy drinking!

Shared with emerica56. Pours a headless near black colour with ruby brown edges. Interesting cider-like nose with notes of soil, grahm cracker, overripe dark pitted fruit and honey. The flavour is also cider-like with roasted malts, peppery spice, pitted fruit and cocoa. The finish is dry and hoppy with a earthy, chocolatey aftertaste that has notes of apricott. As advertised, I like how this dubbel is not astringently yeasty like many others. The texture is creamy and full with soft, massaging carbonation. Really nice double that separates itself from the rest.

Courtesy of Emerica56! Pours a murky brown color with a small offwhite head. Nose of cocoa, old pennies, earthy malts,mollasses, and spices. Initial taste of mild cocoa,dark fruits, prunes are also apparent. Hint of earthiness lingers before finishing with mild bitter hops and syrupy stickness. Medium body smooth finish. Good palate duration. Dry finish. Very drinkable

Thanks alot beer bill for sending me this in a trade. it was dumped into a snifter and had a dark nut brown with a thick head which faded right away and leaft a thin head and some minor streaks along the sides of the glass. the aroma has a lot of different things in it like hints of earth and soil as well as some mild traces of cider and fruits. There is also some hits of hops with roasted malt. Once the beer warms up and i took my first sip it had some creamy bitterness initially with spices like anise and some hints of clove. there is not much flavor lasting in your mouth once the beer has gone down your throat. Over all this is a very good beer, the booze is well hidden and this is a good beer to just sip on.

22oz. bomber. Pours a very dark brown with very little yellowish brown head. Smells of toasty smokey malts, maybe a little coffee in there as well. Tastes of smokey malts, a touch woody, with some coffee and an alcohol finish. Thinnishon the palate, good carbonation. Very smooth for being such a dark beer. One of the darkest Belgians that I’ve had but very, very drinkable. At 8.66% it packs a good punch as well.