 WISEGUY572 (1246), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Oct 11, 2006 Updated: Aug 5, 2007OK, to start, IPA is my favorite style, and this is a great example of an American IPA. If you don’t like American hops and indeed if you don’t like beers hopped to exces you won’t care for this. Huge pine nose with citrus. Great appearance ... clear copper with a small off white head and fantastic lacing that promises wonderful body, which the beer also delivers. Great balance of sweet malt and citrus and pine. Love it. A bit more alcohol than I like to find in a big bottle, but I did not know until the beer knocked me out. // Even nicer after 10 months. Same great nose, appearance, mouth. Flavor is even hoppier, even maltier, even better balanced. Love it.
smoosh (523), New Albany, Indiana, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Oct 10, 2006 Bottle - HUGE piney nose with just a touch of citrus. A beautiful orange/amber body with a big beige head. Mouth puckeringly bitter. The bitterness lingers on the tongue forever ... almost. What a terrific beer - right in my sweet spot. Just huge and wonderful. Way to go Stone!
rybowen (105), Los Angeles 90039, California, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Oct 9, 2006 Nice color, beautiful tawny amber. Big, sweet beer with plenty of alcohol. In fact, alcohol and boozy aftertaste is the dominant non-hop flavor. Just the way I like it. Bitter, hoppy flavor with resiny citrusy notes and good aroma. Excellent, another home run for Stone.
Don’t drink more than one, I’m warning you...
bhensonb (4355), Woodland, California, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Oct 9, 2006 Floral, pine and citrus in the aroma. Orangy amber color. Very little head, but lots of tiny bubbles. Seems to start with grapefruit, then some malty sweetness, then on to pineness. That evergreen aroma may be a little more cedar than pine. Certainly smells well. The high alcohol tends to dominate the finish. Really excellent.
aspidites (1274), manteca, California, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Oct 9, 2006 Sugar, Sugar and more sugar. A beer that does not live up to the Stone or IPA monikers. A one note wonder of a beer, see above sugar comment. Hot alcohol and overly sweet palate bordering on cloying. Bittering hops in abundance with very littly nose or flavor from late addition hopping. A very lacluster and mundane effort from a typically very good brewery.
hiphops (280), caldwell, New Jersey, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Oct 9, 2006 looks like everyother imp ipa. highly floral and spicy bouquet. with a hint of grapefruit and sexy chick b.o. the kind that makes your john thomas pop up and say hey whats going on over here???? the flavor is aight. very floral with a high alchol finish not really bitter just lingering alcohol.
loweredsixth (942), Fresno, California, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Oct 8, 2006 Easily one of the best strong IPA’s I’ve ever had. I really think this thing is well balanced. There are massive citrusy tones in the aroma and flavor...grapefruit, orange, and lemon. There is not enough sweetness (thankfully so) to make this a barleywine, and the alcohol is barely noticeable. I am happy with this because I don’t think it’s "over the top." To me, this is an improvement over their regular IPA, and maybe even Ruination.
waolsen (1223), Littleton, Colorado, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Oct 8, 2006 bottle. copper pour with creamy head. I can smell the hops from a foot away. nice maltiness and powerful citrus round out the nose.
Full bodied. great caramel malts with big hops and citrus bitter bite. carbonation is lively. caramel and sugars linger in the aftertaste. Great brew to celebrate their 10th. Congrats and thank you.
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