Stone Coast 1260 Triple IPA

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Bethel, Maine USA

bomber - pours dark orange with slight haze; syrupy sweet with lots of sugars and spicy hops; kind of like a light barleywine but not over the top like 120 min. or double crooked tree; long, dry, bitter finish; a pretty good brew overall

stowehop does it again!! Amber pour. Big mostly white head. Citrus hops and caramel malt galore. Alcohol is a bit too notiiceable but the overall flavor is nice. Lots of citrus, sticky malts and good floral hops give this one a nice interesting flavor.

Pours amber/copper with a white head. Smells of citrus, grassy, earthy. Tastes citrussy and earthy with some bitterness and a breaddy finish.

Thanks to MrBendo for sharing the bomber at dmacs UFC-100 gathering. Pours a deep amber with a nice fluffy head. Aroma is toasty nutty malts, hints of roast but medium to dulling on the citrus, getting a bit cheesy in the hops, grass, and orange zest- light minty pine as well. Flavor is piney citrus, but dulled out- turing stal eand cheesy, bigger crystal malts come through tooo much- getting a bit muddle,d more pine sap , toffee, molasses sweetness and a tacky bitter finish. Not bad, but not great either.

@dmacs UFC100 Gathering courtesy of MrBendo-22oz bottle–pours an off white head and amber color. Aroma is medium fruit, medium malt, hops bite. Taste is hot/alcohol, medium fruit, medium malt, hops bite.

Bottle from someone sharing at DLD. Thanks. Pours an amber brown with a beige head. Aromas of caramel malts, dough, with fresh herbal hops. Light malt flavors with citrus, pine, and herbal hops. Long bitter finish. Pretty solid beer.

Stone Coast 1260 Triple IPA review notes Bottle from Kyle (Pamola) on BA. Reviewed 1/22/09. S.N. HopTulip glass. A: Pours a beautifully hazed and mysteriously dark and opaque reddish brown color that sucks light in and doesn’t let go. A 2 finger tannish colored head builds to the rim of the glass and sticks around for a little while, leaving sticky streaks and rings of lace is it recedes into a thick cap. Loving the darker color and the head is still amazing even with the age on it. 4.5/5 S: Very barleywine-esque, but still leading hop forward in the aroma. Surprisingly pungent pine and shaved orange zest hops melds with thick and sweet smells of dark caramel, toffee, and dark grain bread dough malt sweetness. The balance is great and the hops are still alive in the aromatics despite the age, which is fairly uncommon in my experience with aged DIPAs. Very nice. 4/5 T: Again, much like a hoppy american barleywine at this point. Still, the level of hops are still surprisingly fresh and flavorful for a hoppy beer brewed in ’07. More pine and citrus fruit rind is balanced by a soft but darker malt sweetness (see descriptors above). The bitterness is present and biting, but also pleasantly soft (only 67 IBUs according to the bottle). This is the best aged DIPA I’ve ever tasted. 4/5 M: The mouthfeel is on the fuller side with a soft level of moderate carbonation. The consistency is sticky sweet with a touch of dry bitterness and a pleasantly warming alcohol presence left lingering on the back of the throat. For an aged 10% ABV DIPA it finishes surprisingly soft and smooth. 4.5/5 D: For a high gravity beer weighing in at 10% ABV this one is quite easily drinkable. The balance between big hoppiness and lots of malt sweetness is superb and there’s only a slight touch of booze to keep it warm and pleasant, nothing at all harsh or out of place. Too bad I’ll never get to try it fresh, but as is it’s a very nicely drinking aged DIPA. 4/5 I’ll pour a sip on the curb for stone coast brewery, I really wish they didn’t go out of business. If their other hopped-up beers were anything like 1260, I would have loved to try more of them. Drink it now or continue to let it age in the fridge, should hold up for a little while longer with no problems.

Lucky number 13. Finally got to try this hard to trade for beer. EArth, citrus, and tobacco in the aroma along with lots of sweetish malts. Smells like a barley wine. Initial citrus and tobacco hop profile is overtake by lots of sweet toffee and caramel, brown sugar too. . The earthy hops come back in the finish. Muddy orange brown beer with a thin lasting head.