Stone Coast 420 IPA

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

Bottle. Hazy golden. nice white head. Light citrus hop aroma. Malty with a good dose of flavor and bittering hops. Citrus flavors. Hops build in the finish and linger.

Bottle. Amber in color with a nice fluffy head. Hoppy and fruity aroma. American hops. Hoppy and fruity flavor.Spicey. Sweet. Nice malt character. Well balanced beer. Nice hop bitterness Drinkable. Nice.

Pours a clear orange/amber color with a small white head. Aroma is of subdued hops and some malt. Pretty clean. The tatse is pretty mild, with some bitterness coming through balanced with maltiness. Not enough hops for me but pretty typical of an "East Coast IPA".

I had zero expectations for this beer and after sampling, I am mighty impressed. Golden honey colored with an ample head that diminished quickly leaving a fine lacing. Wasn’t impressed with the hoppy semi-sour yeast aroma. It balanced nicely in the drink with a mild fruit hop kick that disappears on the tongue. Not nearly as bitter as most IPA offerings and surprisingly complex. This beer feels like it’s on the cusp of something really amazing. Make it a double or triple with a bit of spice hop and I believe it could become a new world class brew by anyones standard

Bottle. Light orange w/ white head. Nose is sweet fruity hops. Taste is lightly hoppy w/ fruity sweetness.

2005 bottle consumed 6/22/2005. Pale copper, light peachy/rose hues. Clear, with fine bubbles rising and just tons of fluffy white head, wonderfully retained and providing sheets of lacing. Aroma smells of pale malt, light crystally malts and toasted grains. Just a hint of fruit esters (peach, tangerine, apricots; mainly peach though). Hops are soily and lightly fruity, but quite subdued. Flavor has minty, herbally hops with sweet caramel, very sticky and well-extracted. Light sourness coming from somewhere, is it the hops? or the malt? Perhaps caramunich, or just some stale hops, not sure. As it breaths I get a full-on soily, lightly spicy, very sweaty hops flavor. Must be goldings, or just some really old American type. Low carbonation, no sediment at the bottom, but I still don’t think it’s heavily filtered, and the lacing can attest to that as well. Smooth, lightly sticky, in a pleasing way. Medium body. Still don’t know where that light sourness is coming from. Reminds me of wheat dough and olive oil. Whatever the case, this is a very drinkable, unique interpretation. 100 IPAs and I still can’t figure out the hops. I’m afraid that’s one aspect of beer that’s quite lost on me. . .

Bottle. Dark gold with a long-lasting white head that left some delectable lacing. Nose: hay, walnut husks and nutmeg. Taste: stale walnuts, light caramel malt and faint floral hops. Medium smooth body. Other raters have found this beer to be quite hoppy, but not me. In my book this erstwhile IPA is dull dull dull.

Pours a very pale, clear copper with a frothy off-white head. Lots of lace evident. Smells of very floral hops. Fruity citrus and pale malt. Hints of orange peel. Taste has some floral hops up front and some fruity malt following and then a big hassertive hoppy finish. Nothing fancy except the nice floral citrus flavors up front. Nice and crisp witha nice long, slow hops aftertaste. Very drinkable to me. a very good, if not partucularly adventurous beer.