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Stone 9th Anniversary Ale

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Stone 9th Anniversary Ale - American Strong Ale

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

Escondido, California USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
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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 YogiBeera (2437), Hamburg, Germany
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/516/20
Nov 15, 2005  
Beautiful orange colored brew with a perfectly even bih white head on top, which lasts forever. Fizzy carbonation. Intense grapefruit and also honey in the nose. Repeating grapefruit in the taste accomplished by an intense apricot mixed with acacia honey taste. Long lasting medium bitterness on the tongue.


 DougShoemaker (2855), Toronto, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Nov 13, 2005  
Aroma is hoppy, with citrus notes and some good malt too, Light amber, pours a small head. Flavour is piney, citrus hops, with a fine malt backbone. Medium bodied, sticky, chewy, very bold offering. Terrific!


 mnurda (434), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 13, 2005  
Piscator and I shared this for lunch on Friday with a nice sangwich from Quiznos. Almost orange in colour with quite a head on it. Very hoppy, and had quite a bite to it. The alcohol content forced me to have a catnap after lunch. Too bad I had to go to Anaheim to get this one.


 MrRomero (1934), Nolanville, Texas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Nov 13, 2005  
Bottle: poured a deep golden yellow, almost orange with a full, somewhat fizzy head. Big aroma of caramel, malt with a touch of citrusy hops. Flavor and body was full with a good bit of hoppiness and some sweet malts. Moderate sour finish. A nice beer.


 crzybob77 (528), Richmond, Virginia, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 12, 2005  
THe best part about this beer is the aroma. Great sweet grapefruit and pine hop aroma. Exactly the aroma I would expect from stone. Taste has some sweetness with of course big hop flavor (floral grapefruit). Alcohol is somewhat noticable, but not much.


 hippie4beer (162), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Nov 12, 2005  
Pours a orangish amber color with a medium white head. Aroma of sweet heavy hops. Medium body with a long bitter finish that warms every so slightly. Great beer.


 piscator34 (1121), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Nov 11, 2005  
S lightly hazy orange in colour with a medium amount of carbonation. Lots of citrusy c-hop aromas, with a bit of gloral and green hop contribution in the background. Loads of up-front hop flavors eventually fade into syrupy biscuit grains and a subtle tangy wheat finish. I would have liked to have seen the wheat aspects of this beer amped up as much as the hops, but this is still a good beer. Thanks to mnurda for bringing this back from SoCal.


 mds (2112), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Nov 9, 2005  
bottle. hazy orange with a medium-sized white head. aroma is orangey citrus hops with a soft biscuit malt backbone. this is quite hoppy - leafy citrus flavour, yeast, and some evidence of warm alcohol. I like this despite the lack of depth.



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