Go To IPA

Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸

IPA - Session Regular

Score

7.14

ABV: 4.8%

IBU: 65

Ticks: 343

Since Day One, we've been abundantly forthright and fully transparent about our lust for hops. It's led us to craft many an IPA, most of them imperial—some intense for their time and all timeless in their intensity. For Stone Go To IPA, we embrace our hop obsession in a new way, funneling an abundance of lupulin-borne bitterness into a session IPA that delivers all the fruity, piney character of a much bigger IPA. To accomplish this, we employ hop bursting, a technique wherein an irrational amount of hops is added during the final phase of the brewing process to bring out extreme flavors and aromas while also imparting a burst of desirably pleasant bitterness. The result is an alpha-acid-rich beer that fans can enjoy more of without missing out on the assertive hop character you, like us, crave. So, sit back and go two with your new everyday go-to IPA and bask along with us in the glory of the almighty hop.

This beer employed the hop-bursting technique, which in essence is a hopping method where all or most of the bitterness in the beer comes from late hop additions in the brewhouse, like at the end of boil and in the whirlpool, instead of the more traditional approach where most of the hop bitterness comes from earlier additions at the start of the kettle boil. The result is a beautifully aromatic beer with substantial but somewhat mellow bitterness. Hop bursting also enhances the flavor retention of the hops, and combined with the dry hop, creates a very intense and complex hop flavor.

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dwest (2978) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 2 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

sampled many years ago - going back and ticking some that i missed - classic, simple IPA

Tried from Can on 27 Jan 2026 at 14:34

4.1

Gluepot (959) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 6 months ago

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 18

The Stone Go To is a top end session IPA. Citrus, Rind and a touch of dankness combine in a very fresh hop profile. Lots of body and richness for a session IPA as well

Tried on 23 Sep 2025 at 20:04

caribou43 (2840) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 6 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

It is a decent IPA, rather dry for a session not so fruity, with a discreet touch of pineapple, at the final, tobacco, mineral, soap, hop, 02.07.18, at Lausanne, Prélaz.

Tried from Can from Amstein on 12 Sep 2025 at 09:05

gave a cheers!

7.1

Maverick (5091) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 10 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Draft in Virginia. Poured clear gold white head. Hops nose, strong hops bite that dissipated into slight cream finish. Pretty good.

Tried from Draft on 20 May 2025 at 01:29

6.9

tnkw01 (4092) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Not bad for an IPA. Amber in color. Aroma has the traditional citrus, spruce aroma. Taste is grapefruit and a touch of cedar.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 06:53

PLohbauer (1118) ticked Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

RB score 3.66

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 00:35

7.6

Robinvboyer (8065) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from the lcbo. This really delivers. Huge orange oil Aroma and flavour, light bitterness, super session ipa. Loads of juicy citrus, but still light on the palette.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:08

3.8

labeerinthum (9171) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 16

Lattina. Il naso riconosce segni di luppolo. La finezza olfattiva è elevata e l'esistenza olfattiva è sufficiente. Il manto birroso superiore resiste abbastanza. La grandezza delle bollicine è media. Il liquido appare velato. Il colore è giallo dorato brillante. Il corpo è strutturato. L'amaro è intenso. La forza gustativa è elevata e la persistenza è buona. Il gusto è piacevole. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano luppolate. Il retrogusto è intenso. Al palato prevalgono impressioni di miele, frutta secca, luppolo, resina, pino, agrumi, pompelmo, ananas, pesca, albicocca, mango e frutta tropicale.

Tried on 12 Feb 2025 at 07:40

7.8

tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Brewed in Berlin. Aroma is fruity hops, tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, bit oily hops, with notes of onions and some lovely dankness. Flavour is light sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Beautifully balanced. I wouldn’t mind drinking a sixpack of this baby...

Tried from Can on 10 Feb 2025 at 04:45

kristincedar (7044) ticked Go To IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago

It's good. Plain ipa.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:59