Vertical Epic Ale 12.12.12
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.15
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This year's Stone Vertical Epic Ale is the very last one. Yep, this is it. The final chapter. Or as they say on the last slide in some old films: "Fin." No worries though; this edition is particularly well-suited for prolonging the experience, as it's as cellarable as any in the series, or more. In this, the final edition, you can expect a perfectly balanced "womp" of spices: cinnamon, ginger, allspice, sweet orange peel, clove (only a little!) and rosehips, all in the context of a dark Belgian-style abbey-ish beer...but not as sweet. Dry even. Stone style. Thanks for coming on this epic Stone-style journey with us! You can rest assured there will be new adventures to come...
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Medium dark brown color. Someone dumped the spice rack into this with tons of nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2016
at 09:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma is mainly spice with a little Licorice and molasses hint of malt. Flavor is similar to nose but with toasted malts coming out to balance the heavy spices but it’s not very effective. It’s okay but it’s one of my least favorites Stone beers.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2016
at 23:00
2/10
Tried
on 28 Feb 2016
at 15:58
7/10
Great stuff. Thanks Justin
Tried
on 05 Jan 2016
at 20:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Black pour with a small tan head. Aroma of molasses, prune, alcohol, and spice. Sweet and spicy flavor. not nearly as complex as the aroma hinted at. Full bodied.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2015
at 16:52
8/10
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 03:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops. Pours dark black with a nice tan head. Aromas of licorice malt chocolate gingerbread and spice. Taste is awesome full rich mouth feel with a nice lingering hop finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2015
at 20:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. [ As Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale ].Clear dark black brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, spicy, clove, cinnamon, light roasted, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, spicy, spicy bitter, chocoæate, cinamom, clove. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20140811]
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2015
at 02:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep brown, lots of spice, aniseed and liquorice, bit too much alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2015
at 01:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle) Black colour with frothy, pale brown head. Roasted, spicy nose with notes of black rye bread, dark bitter chocolate, clove, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, hints of bay leaf, pine needles and some orange peel. Malty, roasted taste with dark chocolate, black coffee, pine needles, black rye bread, juniper berries, spices (cardamom, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg) and a generous spicy bitterness in the finish. Full body, fairly dry. Very spicy, possibly not in perfect balance, but very tasty and very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2015
at 15:57