Fruitallica
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Beavertown Brewery / Garage ProjectIPA - Flavoured Special Out of Production
|
Score
7.38
|
|
A tropical double IPA with a death metal kick to the codpiece
Collaborators: Beavertown / Garage Project / Stone
Glorious-crank-it-to-‘11’-cacophony is what happens when intense tropical fruit gets a flashpot addition of pyrotechnic heat from habanero. The result is a literal world tour, as three globe-trotting breweries collaborated on this immensely thunderous soundstorm of a beer.
Masters of brewing Beavertown (UK) and Garage Project (New Zealand) worked with us in San Diego to brew this double IPA with a power trio of kiwi, yuzu and habanero. Yuzu and habanero, sure, but who knew kiwi fruit could be so metal. Add in a colossal hop character to ride the lightning of the subtle but fiery heat. Hops, fruit, heat…And Juiciness For All.
Call up your mosh mates, crank up the tunes, throw this beer in the fridge and chill ‘em all.
We have known the Garage Project guys, Pete Gillespie and Jos Ruffell, for a while and have brewed with them a few times in the past - last year in Japan at Coedo and recently with Kris Ketcham at Stone Brewing - Liberty Station, but never at our flagship brewery in Escondido. We have also known Logan Plant from Beavertown for a few years, have been to his brewery in London, and have been very impressed by the beers and his approach to brewing. We had been looking for just the right opportunity to brew with him. This recipe is a true representation of joining our three breweries with New Zealand hops, English yeast, and some American hops, plus our Stone style of brewing IPAs. This is a very unique and wonderful beer. Enjoy it while you can get it!
Collaborators: Beavertown / Garage Project / Stone
Glorious-crank-it-to-‘11’-cacophony is what happens when intense tropical fruit gets a flashpot addition of pyrotechnic heat from habanero. The result is a literal world tour, as three globe-trotting breweries collaborated on this immensely thunderous soundstorm of a beer.
Masters of brewing Beavertown (UK) and Garage Project (New Zealand) worked with us in San Diego to brew this double IPA with a power trio of kiwi, yuzu and habanero. Yuzu and habanero, sure, but who knew kiwi fruit could be so metal. Add in a colossal hop character to ride the lightning of the subtle but fiery heat. Hops, fruit, heat…And Juiciness For All.
Call up your mosh mates, crank up the tunes, throw this beer in the fridge and chill ‘em all.
We have known the Garage Project guys, Pete Gillespie and Jos Ruffell, for a while and have brewed with them a few times in the past - last year in Japan at Coedo and recently with Kris Ketcham at Stone Brewing - Liberty Station, but never at our flagship brewery in Escondido. We have also known Logan Plant from Beavertown for a few years, have been to his brewery in London, and have been very impressed by the beers and his approach to brewing. We had been looking for just the right opportunity to brew with him. This recipe is a true representation of joining our three breweries with New Zealand hops, English yeast, and some American hops, plus our Stone style of brewing IPAs. This is a very unique and wonderful beer. Enjoy it while you can get it!
Sign up to add a tick or review
7.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle Bar East, Philadelphia bottle: pours hazy with a white head. Aroma is loads of tropical fruit. Taste is somewhat sweet, somewhat bitter. Pretty solid DIPA. Large. Did not notice the habanero or yuzu really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2017
at 20:06
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a cloudy earthy orange with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has earthy tropical fruits and grass with some light pepper and grains backing. Flavor has a good amount of tropical fruits, earthy citrus, light pepper and a grain backbone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2017
at 21:06
7.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From bomber to pint glass. Aromas and taste are both very fruity and juicy. Pours a hazy honeycomb with retained white head. Sweet white malt backbone. No habanero here, which is fine by me. A great beer.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2017
at 00:14
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ Beavertown Extravaganza'17. Dorée/paille, col blanc. Arôme au bouquet finement herbacé sur un rétro-nasal rappelant un peu le botanique avec un effet herbacé et basilique et une petite pointe de thé matcha. Peu d'effet des habaneros. Palais est malté fin, caramel et pâle, petit effet pils, note de chaleur apportée par les habaneros. Un peu huileux des houblons dans un style c-hops. Effet de chaleur des piments revient sur la fin sans pour cela être surfaite. Fini herbacé un peu de note levure et effet de carton mouillé.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 03:21
7.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared in CO. Pours murky gold with a frothy, white head. Pretty rich and fleshy, some tangerine, melon, low bitterness, papaya, pine needles. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with some piney resin, more fleshy citrus fruits, restrained bitterness. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2017
at 03:42
7.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit and light tropical fruit aroma. Grapefruit and tropical fruit flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and tropical fruit linger.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2017
at 18:22
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Grunt fill from Albertsons. Hazy orange amber pour with thick, fluffy head. Fruity, juicy aroma with a hint of hop resin. Taste continues with the juice, grapefruit and pineapple, with some nice mild dankness that pairs nicely with the citrusy notes. Sweet and smooth...and potent.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2017
at 21:56
7.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Discount Liquor MKE. Looks like a NEIPA. Murky orange, large foamy tan head, fair retention. Aroma of fresh habanero, grapefruit, yuzu, pale malt. The taste is grapefruit, kiwi, yuzu, hints of pepper, pale malt. Medium bodied, juicy, moderate lingering bitterness. Not quite a kick to the codpiece, but decent.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2017
at 21:16
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 ounce bottle. Murky yellowish, tan color. Small creamy white head. Faint cereal malt nose hints at Cheerios. Interesting, Crusty, bready malt flavor has complex fruity notes. Hints of grapefruit, lime and cerebral kiwi. Quite the fruit salad. The subtle habanero burn arrives late in the finish. It is soft and seminal. Really off the beaten track. Though worth seeking out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2017
at 00:07
8.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle ordered from Hop Leaf at home. Hazy golden orange pour with fine puffy head. Aroma is bright, tart, juicy, and dank. Taste is sharp bitter citrus juice, resin too. Booze and pithy bitterness last. A heavier, smoother palate, little NE IPA, but still Stone. Spicy finish in a way that blends well with bitterness, and isn’t overpowering. Really really good, and gets better as you drink it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2017
at 05:27