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Stone 9th Anniversary Ale

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Stone 9th Anniversary Ale - American Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
94
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Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale

Escondido, California USA

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4443.66/5.03.64/5.0Special7.8%69.2Snifter, Trappist glass
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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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 decaturstevo (1971), decatur, Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 11, 2006  
An immediate hop aroma. Pours a deep gold with just a tinge of orange and a ncie white fluffy head. A bittersweet taste of caramelly malt and hops. A sweet almost thick palate. A damn fine bitter end that grows.


 kwoeltje (1313), Manchester, Missouri, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 9, 2006  
(bottle) Orange gold, a bit hazy, with large fluffy cream head. Floral hops aroma. Flavor is floral/pine hops with some sweetness, yeast and fruit. The love child of an agressive imperial IPA and a wheat beer.


 eaglefan538 (2351), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 5, 2006  
A solid four across the board. Poured, smelled, and tasted just like a dIPA, although slightly more yellow and less orange-amberish than many from that style. The aroma was malty, yeasty, and resinous. The flavor was malty sweet with some grapefruits and resin flavors coming through. Nice slightly pine-like hoppy finish. Mouthfeel was moderately bodied and the alcohol didn’t overwhelm (wasn’t hidden, though).


 JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
May 27, 2006  
Clear light amber body. Frothy off-whtie head; sticky lacing. Aroma has Flavor has some IPA caramelly malt, some bittering hop edge, sweet spicy yeast and flowers give it a very light belgian feel. Perfumed honey wheat sweetness. Very rounded, crisp, good beer.


 Miguel (1181), Saint-Ours, Quebec, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
May 18, 2006  
Robe dorée surmontée d’une mousse blanche qui persiste. Arômes de houblon résineux, de diacétyle et de malt caramélisé. Saveurs de malt caramélisé, d’alcool, de houblon résineux et de levure.


 lordeche (397), Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
May 13, 2006  
Strong wheaty, earthy aroma. Pours blonde-golden with small-to-moderate head. Very tastey, with strong overtones of floral and bitter hops. Nie malty balance, with caramel smoothness. Really delicious.


 Dorwart (1807), Robbinsville, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/514/20
May 13, 2006  
Decent sized white head of fine bubbles. Good carbonation. Nice hoppy aroma with a bit of iced tea in there. Little bit of sweetness. Color is a medium golden orange. Little sweet and very hoppy as is the norm for many stone brews. Little bit of sopme strange vegetable in there also. Slick oily finish with a big helping of hops and a lingering bitterness. Only slightly dry. Decent and not overly sweet or unsettling.


 grat (433), ST. Louis, Missouri, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
May 7, 2006  
IWe drank this side to side with ruination and it was dificult to tell the fdifference between the two, other than a lingering sweetness in the 9th. Golden beer. Stoney, rocked out head. beautiful beer. Very atractive. Nose is hop monster. Stone has a way of hopping things so that the bitterness is chunky and violent at the core, smooth and supple at the edges. All hops and a little bit of sugary sweetness from the wheat. Tartness as claimed in the description is not apparent yet. As it touches the tongue, sweetness is evident first. Maybe a little tart but nothing too powerful. Hops are massive. Wall of cheesy bitterness. All in all a good beer.



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