Stone Ruination IPA

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Escondido, California USA

The nose is grassy, the head poured is pretty low and there is great lacing on the glass. The color is medium orange/yellow, and the bitter hops do linger on the palette with this one. There is good carbonation and the palette is oily. The nose also contains orange blossom honey which I find to be really nice. Overall a solid DIPA, but not one of my all time favorites either.

Sample Draft at a Stone tasting. Cloudy orange pour, nice hoppy aroma. Outstanding flavor, caramel sweetness upfront with a wonderful bitter finish. Outstanding.

great ipa but 18 bucks for 6 pack you cant drink it everyday. I made a clone of this beer and it cut the cost in half.

Yellow orange in color... Citrusy hops aroma... Flavor is initially bitter which lingers long after sipping it... Hops overload... More watery initially but palate is incredibly bitter which makes each consecutive sip less bitter.... Great beer

Pours clear amber with a frothy white head with constant aroma release keeping the head around for the entire beer. Delicious orange and tangerine aroma, pine resin and honeysuckle. Perfect balance between thick malt and sweet but brutally bitter hops. Taste is mostly orange rind and pine. This is a masterpiece of beer and one of the best I’ve ever had. Nothing is flawed.

Light hazy amber / orange in colour, so-so off-white cap (could be creamier), some spotty lacing. The aroma is soft all around but still thick. Lots of sweet malts - more than I expected. Some pine, the usual candy citrus (softer than the norm). I think I Need another one for review as I cannot nail the aroma down well enough. The hops (leafy, hot, pine, spicy, some grapefruit) are not super overpowering but are still very harsh (I like!!!). Bready malts. A decent blend of flavours but seems muted somehow. Full bodied, smooth all the way through, some mild alcohol bite, fading piney bitter finish.

Once again, I prefer the trappist quads over anything else but every now and then I come across a gem of an IPA or Stout. This is one of them. Bitter to the end but not obnoxiously so. The trait of every great beer is balance and this certainly has it. Easy to drink on a hot day........too easy. Great feel on the tongue. Any serious IPA lover would appreciate this beer.