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Stone 9th Anniversary Ale

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4453.66/5.03.64/5.0Special7.8%70.5Snifter, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
As has been a tradition, we have “Anniversary-ized” a recipe from our history by cranking it up, making it stronger and more assertive. With this year’s Anniversary we decided to look back at a wheat beer that we released a couple of Spring/Summers a few years ago: Stone Heat Seeking Wheat. While it was a plenty tasty beer, we ultimately decided that it wasn’t that reflective of what Stone was all about, and we unceremoniously dropped it from our lineup. For the Stone 9th Anniversary Ale, we carried some of the characteristics from the Stone Heat Seeking Wheat --- clear, not hazy; hoppy, not yeasty; combining a delicious hop bitterness and wheat tartness --- and made some…well…adjustments.
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 BennyTicklez (621), USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jan 21, 2007  
pours deep golden with lots of carbonation and a medium sized white head. Aroma is slight grain and bit grapefruit hops. Taste is the same. Big bitterness of citrus and grapefruit. Lighter than other stone anniversarys but probably my favorite of the ones I have tried.


Treephiend (57), Walla Walla, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jan 15, 2007  
Very tasty well ballanced ale. It has a good fruity sweetness combined with a generous dose of hoppy bitterness to create such a well rounded ale.


 garmonbozia (227), Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jan 14, 2007    Updated: Feb 2, 2007
Thanks to Styles, Pours an orange color with a nice white head. Smells of citrus, bready, and hops. Taste is very smooth and nicle carbinated also. Overall a very nice beer


 RedHaze (370), Where the hell am I?, Nebraska, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Jan 14, 2007  
Pours a mostly clear ornag color with a one inch frothy head that slowly settles to a thin spotty cap and thick ring, and leaves a very nice looking web of lace. Smell; smells strongly hops with grapefruits and oranges, and some other fruits that I can’t quite place (maybe apricots?). There’s a pretty good malt presence in the nose to go along with the hops. Taste; strong alcohol notes hit right away. Bitter hops with some sweet grapefruit and oranges following. This has a petty solid malt backbone to counter thos hops some. I just wish the alcohol didn’t have such a pronounced presence in the flavor. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, and to syrupy for me, and the drinkability takes a big hit due to the alcohol taste.


 xmarcnolanx (792), Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/516/20
Jan 7, 2007  
Aroma of citrus and pine with a taste of citrus and a dry finish. Pleasant, but not my favorite offering from the lineup.


 alexanderj (2227), Chino Hills, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/513/20
Dec 28, 2006  
Draft at Stone’s Winter Storm. Color was gold; fairly dark. Aroma of citrus hops, with a slight pine presence. Flavor was mainly of the citrus hops, with a malt presence. Dry finish. Pretty good, but something didn’t exactly click with me.


 Racegoer (338), Somewhere Out There, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/513/20
Dec 18, 2006  
22 oz Bomber, medium golden, frothy. Thick flavours of pine and full hops, its been a long time since I have rated a beer here, I AM BACK. Nice easy carbination cirtrus resounds with nice piney hops, not a top shelf choice, but still recommended. Bought at Jungle Jim’s on my yearly trip to Cincinnati Ohio.


 redlem (1155), Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Dec 15, 2006  
Dark gold color with a large dense head. Strong citrus hoppy aroma nad taste. Slightly slick wheat mouthfeel. Alcohol faintly noticeable.



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