Stone 3rd Anniversary IPA

high amount of hops, a little strong but good tasting. same with effect. good high alcohol volume for high hops.

Bomber shared by EDA!!! Damn dude. EDA even brought out the Stone 2nd Anniversary as well! Unfortunately this 3rd anniversary held up even worse than the 2nd- it was way past its prime. Pours a hazy dull orange and a thin soda like head. Aroma is old mildew stale, fungyusy with mushroom and vegetable ash, stale old hops, with a funky light tart note almost like a jonge lambic- strange. Flavor is old hops, cheesy light funk, leather, toasty hints of butter, metallic hops, strange phenols, more funk and mushroom with an earthy herbal finish- even notes of fish? wtf? Strange and obviously way past its prime. Cool to try though.

Bottle at RnH Drink for Charity. Thanks to everyone who brought great beer to this. Pale orange with small head. Hospital aroma. Sweet peach mild bitter and lots of nasty old flavors. Still carbonated. Good beer gone bad. Interesting to test out the effects of age on this.

Bottle shared by eyedrinkale at "Drink for Charity" event at Rattle N Hum. Pale golden pour. Aroma is heavily oxidized. Chewy and still very bitter. There is a vaguely Belgian character to the malts with a touch of light spiciness. Chewy and a little bit spicy with a lot of wet dankness. What else could you expect after 10 years?

Bottle shared by EDA as part of a complete vertical. We drank the 2nd anniversary, too, which is too old to be put on the site; however, it was arguably the best of the four IPAs finishing with the 5th anniversary.

This one was crazy oxidized, retaining hop bitterness but little in the way of aromatics, maybe just a little bit of orange. Vegetal and farty flavor (mmmm). Pissy, catty, wet cat fur. A huge mess.

Bottle at the “Drink for Charity” event at Rattle & Hum thanks to Mike who brought a vertical from 2nd to 12th. Crazy. Second anniversary isn’t in the database, so notes on that one are included here. Pours a hazy brown to orange amber, with little black floaties that look like coffee grounds. Caramel and old prunes on the nose. Really good carbonation, surprising actually. Tastes a bit like old cardboard. 3rd looks like an even more hazy version of the 2nd. Flavors and aromas are very similar, and the doubled hops from 2nd to 3rd have fallen out completely. 3rd is bitter and tastes even older than the 2nd. Very cool to get a chance to try these.

Bottle shared by EDA, thanks Mike. First off: Stone 2nd Anniversary. Pours a hazy amber golden body with an off white head. Sediment, paper, caramel, toffee with hints of etoh and tobacco. Plumy raisonetts and still carbonated. 3.0 Stone 3rd Anniversary. Pours a hazy orange body with a thin lacing. Obvious oxidation, chewing tobacco, hints of spices and paper and a metallic character. 2.6

Thanks Jason for sharing! Glad to have tried it, but I know it’s way past it’s prime since being released more than 8 years ago. It pours to a glowing coppery vibrant orange body with a thin wispy white head. The aroma is still hoppy buy has some light cheesy things going on. MrFacto says it’s Isovaleric acid. Very strange. The flavor is hoppy with some grassy bitter lingering hops. Surprisingly not that degraded (other than the Isovaleric acid) after 8+ years... The palate is decently bitter. Would have liked to see it in its prime.