Stone Coast 420 IPA

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Bethel, Maine USA

In the bottle from the July Beer-o-the-month club selection. Thanks to pman. This was a rich dark gold-colored beer with a thin off white head. The aroma is a bit like horse manure. I kid you not. A quite repulsive fecal smell. I drank it anyway. The flavor was initially sweet and bitter up front, but rapidly disappeared into nothingness. Has a residual mild bitterness at best. The hop bittering flavor is much more burned than citrus. An underwhelming beer. Maybe if I were hallucinating under the influence of tetrahydrocannabinol I would rate it higher.

Hazy orange/ amber with an off-white head. Malt dominated aroma with good supportive grapefruit hops. Malt dominated flavor profile with supportive hop bitterness. A touch of saltiness detracts somewhat.

Received as one of the "Beer of the Month" choices. Amber color, taste had more bitterness than I had hoped for. The beer wasnt my favorite, however it is drinkable!!!

Bottle - Poured a orangish amber in color with a thick whitish head. Some lacing. Aroma is of yeast, malt and a disappointing amount of hops. Flavor is mildly bitter and fairly non-descript. Little or no hop flavor to go along with the bitterness. Basically flavorless... not a very good effort... also not sure what the other raters were drinking???

Courtesy of Porterhouse <!-- P --> Aroma is a very hearty bread/grain mash that literally smells like a bakery. Dull yellow/gold body with a lasy pinky think white head. Fore is a big dallop of sweet caramel malt with a mild oily feel that I assume is a heavy dose of flavor hops. Whatever it is there isn’t very much in the way of bittering hops, but the beer still has that slightly slick oily feel heavy hopping imparts. More grainy bread in the flavor through the middle. This kind of reminds me of Anchor Small Beer, but with a lot of added caramel sweetness. It’s not IPAish at all as far as bitterness goes. It’s really not bad in what it is, but the flavor range is pretty basic.

extra points for the number and quaility points for being a good drinker ipa. Had this at a beerfest - thought it was pretty good

I brought this one home from my Portland Maine trip a couple months ago.

Pours a deep amber / bronze body with a fluffy light khaki colored head. The aroma that most jumps out at me are the boldly sweet grains: tons of cereal, honey and caramel. The flavor brings some spicy cedar wood chips, pinesap, and an odd array of citrus oils… the palate is rather chewy, the body is not lacking in any way…. I can’t say that is was one of my favorite IPA’s, but it’s nice to see a different take with the East Coast IPAs.

Huge frothy head. Opaque reddish copper color. Strong Grapefruit nose. Intense hoppy grapefruit rind flavor. At the tail the bitterness is the most intense with a dryness. Available at Colonial Spirits, Acton, MA