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Stone Ruination IPA

Stone Ruination IPA

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An Imperial/Double IPA brewed by
Stone Brewing Co.

Escondido, California USA

bottled
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on tap
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17194.06/5.04.06/5.07.7%97.2Snifter, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
So called because of the immediate ruinous effect on your palate. 100+ IBUs. Bracingly bitter. Thick, pungent hop aroma. We would say that no hops were injured in the brewing of this beer, but that would be a massive lie. In fact, the words "Stone Ruination IPA" are what older hop vines use to cause little hop vines to quiver with fright and lose sleep at night . We at Stone honor the brutal massacre of countless hops with this "Liquid poem to the glory of the hop!" Paganism at its best!

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 PhillyHomeBrew (170), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/103/518/20

Mar 7, 2008  
The beer is a pale body topped with very little head. There is a citrusy hoppy aroma with a bit of lemon and lime. Nice hoppy flavor with alittle lime aftertaste. very balanced for an IPA.

 mrant (255), New York, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/105/517/20
Oct 5, 2008  
Smells pungently of sour hops. Pours a wonderful hazy orange color with a moderate bubbly white head. Taste is very bitter with plenty of sour hops to go with it. A very nice IPA, doesn’t show it’s alcohol much either.


 HighlanderOne (461), Somewherein, New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/517/20
Oct 5, 2008  
Poured from bottle. Floral and bitter hop notes in the flavor. Cloudy orange. Lotsa hops in the flavor, but a nice combination that is very drinkable. Creamy feel to it that steps back for the hop kick at the end. Finished even better than it started. A great IPA.


944play (26), Austin, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/103/513/20
Oct 5, 2008  
12oz in Chapeau glass. Pours clear gold with medium white head. Perfumey, flowery, pineapple nose. Super bitter. Resinous, coating, lingering. Very nice but something is missing from the middle that Stone IPA fills, Ruination skips.


 drjay44 (160), Colorado, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/104/516/20
Oct 3, 2008  
22 oz. bottle. Tasted and rated to the goals stated on the bottle. Pours a nice thick creamy head with long retention, color of cloudy honey....nose of pine, resin, floral and bitter hopping....initial taste of malt, then waves of hop spice and late long lingering bitterness... mouth feel dominated by heaviness and small bubbled carbonation. Impressive balance considering the IBU’s.


 KnutAlbert (2313), Oslo, Norway
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/103/514/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Bottle in NYC. Slightly hazy dark gold. Oily resin bitter IPA, a bit tongue-numbing. It’s a bit like drinking a pine forest, and the extreme aroma is what they have aimed for, too. Interesting? Yes. Enjoyable? Yes. Well balanced and moreish? Nope.




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