Stone Brewing Ruination IPA

Ruination IPA

 

Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.81
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 100 Ticks: 253
So called because of its truly "ruinous" effect on your palate, this massive hop monster will change forever your preconceptions of what defines good beer. This is Stone IPA's big brother, and we mean BIG. We essentially began with our already-awesome Stone IPA, threw in an extra-large helping of malt, and added a lot more hops. And then some more. And then even more, resulting in a vibrant blast of citrusy bitterness that hits you on the first sip. Just one taste and you'll know why we call this indelicate jewel "A liquid poem to the glory of the hop!"

One of the first regularly brewed and bottled imperial IPAs.
 

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4.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 18

Another hoppy jewel in the Stone Crown. A relatively understated fruity hop and malt nose wafts from a hazy tan head. Predictably, a gripping hop profile leads the taste profile, activating the jowls and the roof of the mouth. Juicy Grapefruit and tropical fruit accents are fresh and three dimensional. The buscuity malt is an appropriate counterbalance to the hop celebration. mmmph.

Tried on 23 Sep 2025 at 20:00


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Not a huge fan of the mega-hops style but pretty good. Pours gold w/white head, strong hops, alcohol flavors predominate.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 00:44


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Wonderful aroma. May this is what all hop lovers should look for. This is a great sipping beer but more then one at a time is a little too much for a malt lover. I think the description says it all. Highly recommended.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:15


9.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10

bottle at mondiale ’07
aroma is awesome! so citrucy, and floral, its just shredding my sense of smell. Flavour is much of the same, just a shrdding of the taste buds! so much hops, and citrus. I LOVE IT! The bitterness is fierce, and to punches you in the mouth. amazing stuff!

Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2025 at 06:12


9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Aroma of citrus, tropical fruits, grapefruit, pine, floral notes, hint of caramel malt, massive hops. Flavour is light sweet with a long bitter finish. Perfect balance and quite easily drinkable. This gets dangerously close to IPA perfection, it’s certainly my kind of IPA.

Tried on 13 Feb 2025 at 05:04


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours amber gold, transparent, with fine white foam. Aroma is malty same resinous, hoppy. Body is fairly dense, with average carbonation. Taste is rather bitter, even pungent. Final is long and bitter, very resinous and earthy.

Tried from Draft on 24 Jan 2025 at 22:02


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

RUIN ME! From the bottle numerous times. This has everything it should, aroma, color, taste, overall mouth feel, etc., but more importantly, it blends them so smoothly that you don’t know where one flavor ends and another begins. I prefer it to the Dogfish Head 90, but at this level we’re nit picking anyway. World Class IPA. On draught at Brewtopia ’04 Even better dispensed fresh from the keg! World class IIPA.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2025 at 23:50


9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

On tap. Slightly opaque golden body with a white head. Bold resiny hop notes in the aroma with some pine, peach, burnt sugar, goose berries and some brett. Taste of sugar syrup, apricot, pine, goose berries and grapefruits. Long lasting bittersweet finish. Great DIPA.

Tried from Draft on 01 Aug 2024 at 16:27


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

0.355 l can from 'Craftbeershop.com', 8.2% abv, of American origin, canned in January 2024. Almost clear, orangeish amber with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, rather fruity-resiny aroma of orange jam, grapefruit, pine and some tobacco. Quite sweet, gently bitter, rather fruity-resiny taste of grapefruit, pine, orange jam, tangerine and a touch of tobacco, followed by a short, quite bitter finish. Medium to full body, smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Great classic West Coast DIPA, haven't had such an authentic old school beer for a very long time. Please bring 'em back, f*** the haze craze.

Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2024 at 18:02


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

355ml can. First time trying the US brewed version. Clear amber with a big white head. Aroma of grapefruit, resin, pine, marmalade. Taste is very strong and bitter, grapefruit, pine, very resinous, marmalade, caramel. Medium bodied. Proper old school WC IPA.

Tried from Can on 06 Apr 2024 at 22:54