Stone India Pale Ale (IPA)

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Escondido, California USA

Gotta love a piney smelling ipa .... Pours an orange hazy gold with white head awesome citrus piney aroma and a great hoppy taste through and through finishes dry with a lasting aftertaste very clean beer excellent ipa

EASILY my favorite IPA. Can’t get enough of the citrus and grapefruit hops. Lip puckering, yet refreshing. Give mre more.

White head, golden/orange in color. Prominent smell besides the wonderful hops was pine. Very refreshing major hops taste with a beautifully smooth finish.

Aroma is noticeably full of those Pacific North Western hop varieties, no grapefruit citrus present. The flavor is a great balance of strong hops and malts, no citrus to speak of. Appearance is a bit boring and bland. the head is nil, with barely a thin white collar and a coppery color. The palate is a superb balance, with a lingering bitter aftertaste nice hop-malt.

I like this beer alot....a fine representation of the WC IPA...I’ve had better, but I’ve had many, many worse...I still prefer Ruination.........................................

On draught at RnH (NYC): Amazing IPA. Hops, yeast, grapefruit, dry malts... the works. Really crisp and refreshing for an IPA- which is outstanding. One good beer.

Bottle pours gold with bronze highlights and a soapy white head, leaving decent lacing. The nose is primarily grapefruit, pine, and other misc. citrus. Flavor is basically the same with some bitter peach and apricot notes. Overall mouthfeel is moderate/light with a sticky, lasting finish. This beer is pretty much one of my default bar beers, due to availability and consistency. Bravo stone, as usual.

Location: 12 oz bottle from Gilly’s, 7/23/09

Aroma: Huge citrus hop nose, grapefruit, orange, apricot
Appearance: Cloudy gold, thin white head, light lacing
Flavor: Nice hop flavor with some dry malts
Palate: Really easy to drink for a beer of this size, I can go through a lot of these, refreshing and enjoyable, still has a decent amount of body and a nice mouthfeel
Overall Impression: I went to move my rating of this beer onto RateBeer a few weeks back, but since I hadn’t had it in sometime, I decided it best to pick up a fresh one. This is really good. Along with the Arrogant Bastard, this was one of my first beer loves, thanks to Stone for showing me the craft beer movement.