Enjoy By Coffee & Chocolate IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.93
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It’s not unusual to see pronouncements of “I Heart Hops,” “I Heart Chocolate” or “I Heart Coffee” throughout #socialmedia, printed on T-shirts and, natch, emblazoned on coffee cups. Over the past couple of decades we have helped add “I Freaking Heart IPAs” to that lexicon. Today, passionate people can’t imagine a world without all of the above. For this special edition, we added chocolate and coffee to make this devastatingly fresh IPA even more seductive to the palate. We humbly suggest that you use this libation to proclaim your love for someone... and we suggest that someone be you. Loving yourself is exactly what this libation is all about. Love now; remember forever.
The best of both worlds! A hoppy beer that also has nice coffee and chocolate components. These aroma and flavors blend together nicely to create something unique in the Stone Enjoy By IPA series. Still a hop-lovers dream with the added bonus of a cup of coffee and a bite of chocolate. Perfect to share with someone special leading up to or on Valentine’s Day—or enjoy it for yourself!
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Not bad, just not the best combination of flavors to bestow upon a DIPA. Has the usual Stone good looks, the usual Stone IPA bigass tropical-citric nose, but the taste never quite evolves into what you want from a coffee-boosted hop bomb. Big, sweet, hoppy middle, with layers of orange marmalade slathered on top of pine needles, yet the subtle chocolate takes things on a weird turn, and the coffee never becomes prevalent enough to accentuate either the IPA or the cocoa. Finish is a tad hot--you’ll feel every digit of that 9.4% ABV, and the fade is decent if bizarre. Chocolate IPA--not my favorite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours chunky gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving sheet lacing. Tangerine and chocolate aromas. Sweet mild chocolate and sour espresso upfront turning hot in the charred earth finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Tap) clear, bright light amber colour with a small beige head; aroma of tropical fruit, dankness; creamy palate; balanced flavour, well hidden alcohol, long light bitter finish
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 02/14/2017. Pours clear orange, medium creamy off-white head, dissipates slowly with nice lacing. Aroma is odd, grapefruit and coffee, tangerine. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter, interesting blend. Coffee is less pronounced than in say Dayman, chocolate is an accent; I would not pick it out if it wasn’t in the name. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Not bad, but a bit odd.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle thanks to dsg. Pours out a golden amber topped with a small head. Nose is pine some citrus tropical fruit hops and coffee coca. Taste is more of the nice hops and light coffee roast malts.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Enjoy By Coffee & Chocolate IPA from Stone Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Barry. Pours a clear gold with medium off white head that lasts. The aroma is citrus, pine, cocoa. Medium body, cocoa, citrus, lingering bitterness, good.
bb (18607) reviewed Enjoy By Coffee & Chocolate IPA from Stone Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and coffee flavor with pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine lingers with coffee and light chocolate.
CLW (17000) reviewed Enjoy By Coffee & Chocolate IPA from Stone Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz. bottle. Lots of bottle condition yeasts do sediment floating around and suspended in the burnt orange liquid. Pretty ugly looking. The aroma is pine and leafy herbal hops. Maybe a hint of chocolate but mostly hops.
I wasn’t sure how this would work as a flavor profile. Honestly, the hops just dominate the flavor. The chocolate try’s to get through the pine / citrus hops but it nearly fails. The item that displeases me is the coffee does not exist. No where to be found. It’s a standard stone IPA with just a hint of chocolate and astringent aftertaste. No.