Liquid Poem
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.45
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Hops, used artfully, can be a lyrical journey for the palate. What you have here is the liquid equivalent of some old school classic punk rock poetry. We took the path less traveled 25 years ago, and it could be accurately argued we were a bit noisy in our adventures co-pioneering the West Coast style IPA. People heard that noise and joined us in the hoppy mosh pit, and the path has gotten even more lively since then. We based this recipe on the classics, with citrusy-piney Centennial, Chinook and Columbus hops, plus a dash of ‘new classic’ Citra for good measure. Big yet refreshing, bold yet nuanced. Undeniably LOUD. Just as we like it.
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caribou43 (2255) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
From Amstein, St-Légier. Tasting and opening this bottle yesterday, at home, after the meal, as the bottle says: the glory of the hop and it was a full dedicated ipa for this flower. Rather a old school ipa, dry malt, mineral, resinous, note of pineapple, 16.11.24, at Epalinges.
gave a cheers!
tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Amber in color with a three-finger head. Aroma is pine resin, grapefruit and spruce. Taste is also pine resin grapefruit and spruce.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
West Coast double IPA by good old Stone, one of those trusted West Coast IPA pioneers at least of the 'second generation' - and deliberately made like American IPAs were made two decades ago, so I guess I was hoping for a chunk of nostalgia when I bought this at Geers. Not coincidentally hopped with four of the great C-hops (Centennial, Chinook, Columbus and Citra). Medium thick, egg-white, densely moussy, dot-lacing, quite stable head, slowly breaking over an only very lightly hazed warm pale orange-glowing deep peach blonde beer with disparate but active sparkling, turning more misty with sediment but never truly 'hazy'. Aroma of dried grapefruit peel, pink peppercorns, pine needles, dried spruce tips, dry marihuana, orange pith, unripe mandarin, Tuc cheese crackers, breadsticks, wormwood leaves, 'diesel', gin and tonic, even yellow gentian extract. Crisp, cleanish onset, light persimmon and unripe apricot notes, early signs of hop bitterness from the start with clear citrus peel effect, lively carbonated but in a 'small-bubbled' way, fit for the style; smooth, oily body, full but still very supple, breadstick- and cracker-like maltiness, a tad grainy even, but nevertheless rounded enough to carry the upcoming weight of bittering and grapefruity C-hops which become absolutely dominant at or even before the middle phase. A long, drying stretch of rooty, quinine-, bitterroot- and grapefruit pith-like hop bitterness indeed lines the mouth cavity and the throat after swallowing, with this 'dark green', piney effect lingering about; its peppery effects are only enhanced by a gin-like alcohol glow, but somehow the possible wryness of the alcohol remains superseded by the all-encompassing bitterness and spiciness of the hops. Without a trace of tropical fruit or soft doughiness, this is West Coast style in its most authentic form, an overdose of bitter C-hops in a way I have not had in a very long time - after so many 'soft' IPAs, think NEIPA and its offspring, it almost feels as a shock to return to this kind of tongue-cleansing, throat-wrecking hop bitterness; it is as if I have to learn to appreciate this amount of IBUs in a 'naked' and uncompromizing West Coast style environment all over again. I wish to explicitly thank the Stone brewery in California for giving me the opportunity to jog my memory in such a powerful, convincing way and bring me back to the days when I really worked hard to master this kind of hop bitterness - it seems that after all those years, I had almost forgotten how 'extreme' the IPAs and DIPAs of America's earlier days of craft brewing were. Almost.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Battle of Bull, Cheras, Malaysia. Poured a slightly hazy copper colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is malt, woody hops. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter, with a crisp, earthy, light metallic, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A good old skool DIPA.
Davros (5279) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours amber with a large white head.Nose shows spicy, grassy, skunky and herbaceous hops along with clean malt.Flavours include clean malt, pine, resinous hops and booze. Very grassy.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
So it's going to be Like a sucked and spat out Smartie? That must be the right poem. Bottle - which made it easy to stay clear of some sediment and pour clear golden amber with a cm of white head. bb 4/ 22. Aroma of grapefruit, orange, mango skin, bread, hints of pine, menthol and booze. Not very sweet with bread and slight toast which is enough to support the hops. Less citrus than suggested by the aroma, lots of pine. Strong bitterness. Alcohol turns out to be well integrated. Stone are still very good at this sort of thing.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Pours deep gold with a two finger, slowly dissipating head that laces well. The assertive aroma is of tropical fruit and pine. The flavor is full of aggressively bitter hops with citrus and pine resin but supported by a solid malt backbone. Intense and old school, this is an excellent IIPA.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Solid double IPA. Grapefruit and sharp pine. Golden pour with very good head and lacing. Bitter finish. Great body. Extremely drinkable. Bottle.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
13/VIII/21 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 14/IV/22, bottled: 15/IV/21 (2021-783)
Clear orange blond beer, big to huge off-whtie head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: floral, rather soapy, bit oxidized, orange peel, bubble gum, banana, some nail polish, yeasty, more oxidation. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter start, resinous, hoppy, some grapefruit, rather soapy, floral, bubble gum. Aftertaste: very bitter, resinous, rather medicinal, way too bitter, don’t like it very much. Probably a bit too old as well, another Stone that just hit the shelves but is already >3M old.
Gripweed57 (8744) reviewed Liquid Poem from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle. Bright amber gold color. Rocky beige head. Spicy toasted malt aroma hints at pine. Flavor follows nose. Toasted malt and spicy, resiny hops. Notes of pine needles and bitter grapefruit. With the alcohol coming in at more than 9%, there is an added warmth on the backend. Dry spicy hop finish is just what you’d expect. Classic West Coast!