Downunderstruck IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.22
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A Double IPA with Australian Hops
Australia is well-known for being the home of flora and fauna that exist nowhere else on earth. Among these creatures (both creepy and cuddly), you can also encounter some unique and highly sought-after hop varieties. Only in Oz can you find Galaxy, Ella and Vic Secret hops, which lend striking tropical fruit, citrus and peach flavors to this booming behemoth of an IPA. Originally released to commemorate our 19th Anniversary, this is a recipe that’s garnered constant rumblings requesting its return, as steady and powerful as the sound of a didgeridoo…
Australia is well-known for being the home of flora and fauna that exist nowhere else on earth. Among these creatures (both creepy and cuddly), you can also encounter some unique and highly sought-after hop varieties. Only in Oz can you find Galaxy, Ella and Vic Secret hops, which lend striking tropical fruit, citrus and peach flavors to this booming behemoth of an IPA. Originally released to commemorate our 19th Anniversary, this is a recipe that’s garnered constant rumblings requesting its return, as steady and powerful as the sound of a didgeridoo…
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6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
bright yellow with a large foamy head that lingered and left good lacing. Bitter and tangy with cat pee, perfume and pineapple. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Earlier Rating: 10/29/2023 Total Score: 2.9
bright yellow with a large foamy head that lingered and left good lacing. Bitter and tangy with cat pee, perfume and pineapple. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Earlier Rating: 10/29/2023 Total Score: 2.9
bright yellow with a large foamy head that lingered and left good lacing. Bitter and tangy with cat pee, perfume and pineapple. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2023
at 01:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Color: Hazy golden to orange amber, white head. Aroma: Floral hop, subtle citrus fruit and caramel. Taste: A lot of hopbitterness. Floral and grassy, some zesty orange and tangerine, hints of caramel. Moderate sweet, medium bitterness, going to over medium at the dry-ish finish. Medium body, average carbonation. Nice 'old school' bitter DIPA with limited complexity, as expected from Stone.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Oct 2023
at 18:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl can from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours orange gold, partially hazy, with fine white foam. Aroma is floral, hoppy, piney. Body is on the thick side, with average carbonation. Taste is rather bitter. Final is average.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2023
at 19:43
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ SKAAL Sønderborg. Pours hazy orangeish amber with airy off-white head. Clear aroma of fruit and hops, with touches of malt and yeast. Bitter flavour of hops and grass, with sweetish notes of lozenges and malt, and estery and fruity touches. Bitter amd estery aftertaste with malty hints. Decent.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2023
at 19:24
7/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2023
at 13:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. A cloudy amber beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of pine needles, citrus fruits, hops, spices, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, pine needles, spices, citrus fruits, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2023
at 11:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Craftbier webshop and consumed at home Thursday 28th September 2023 listening to Steve Lamaqs Roundtable on 6Music, currently cooking Orzo, Prawns and Feta in a Tomato Sauce. This pours warm gold with a slight haze, clear there is a white head. Excellent IPA, staggering bitterness, resinous, fruity, piney, very dry finish, really blisteringly bitter, nice soft carbonation. This is a fabulous beer, wonderful. *Update, now on 2nd can and there is a real grapefruit pithiness here
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2023
at 17:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml can. Opalescent, orange golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, white head. Condensed, juicy, citrusy fruity hoppy aroma, pale and caramel malty backbone, notes of mandarine, grapefruit, lemon. Taste is bitter and condensed, piney, citrusy fruity hoppy, pale and slightly caramel malty basis with some residual sweetness, notes of lemon and grapefruit, a mineral touch. Oily texture, smooth, simultaneously dry palate, fine, soft, creamy carbonation. Condensed, a tad restrained - OK.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2023
at 17:48
7.4/10
This is the quintessential west coast double ipa. Classic 2000s. Well done. Bierkonig ams
Tried
on 02 Sep 2023
at 15:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2023
at 21:05