 elihapa (305), Connecticut, USA
Jul 14, 2008
Stone Ruination IPA 7/13/08 (bought from Carpenteria. Poured from bomber a champagne dark orange with a smallish head. Aroma is of intense hops, pine, and flowers; you can smell the potency of this thing by its powerful smell! Mouthfeel is medium-thick and syrupy. Initial flavor is a crisp, bitter pine-grapefruit. These flavors are then bolstered by lemon, malt, and some more bitterness. Finishes firmly bitter and with citrus, held long and firm like a warbled note in an opera. This beer is hop-centric, aggressive, and a memorable treat.
mrant (255), New York, USA
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
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
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
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
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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